Rex Ryan Responds to Players’ Concerns About Donald Trump Endorsement

October 6, 2016   ·   Scott Polacek   ·   Jump to comments

Buffalo Bills head coach Rex Ryan said he’s “not worried about that at all” about players reportedly seeing him in a different light for publicly backing Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, per the team’s official website (h/t Ron Clements of Sporting News).
Mike Freeman of Bleacher Report reported on Wednesday that an anonymous black Bills player said that “the fact he could back someone as close-minded as Trump genuinely shocked me."
Freeman noted the player said other black players on the team were not pleased when Ryan publicly supported Trump in the upcoming election.
Freeman included a straw poll of 43 NFL players, 22 of whom are black and 21 of whom are white. Of the white players surveyed, all 21 said they plan on voting for Trump, while 20 of the 22 black players plan on voting for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
Freeman also cited CNN/ORC polls that revealed 52 percent of white men plan on voting for...

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