While the NFL world is still marinating in Drew Brees’ statement regarding his refusal to understand or accept players protesting by kneeling during the national anthem, and Brees’ subsequent sloppy apology, Bills rookie quarterback Jake Fromm has managed to steal the headlines from Brees with his own ill-timed thoughts.
On Thursday, texts from Fromm, the former Georgia quarterback selected by Buffalo in the fifth round of the 2020 draft, were made public on a Twitter account owned by “@Ashleymp20.” Regarding the protests going on all around the country after the police-caused death of George Floyd, Fromm texted, “But no guns are good. They need to let me get suppressors. Just make them very expensive so only elite white people can get them haha.”
In a later screenshot on the same account, it was hypothesized that the Bills were thinking of releasing Fromm over this.
With a quickness, Fromm put out the prerequisite apology.
The Bills already have a quarterback who has been through his own racial issues. In April, 2018, just as he was preparing to be selected seventh overall in that draft by the Bills, Josh Allen had to step forward and apologize for a series of racist tweets, rife with the “N-word,” that he posted when he was in high school.
“If I could go back in time, I would never have done this in a heartbeat,” Allen told ESPN’s Chris Mortensen. “At the time, I obviously didn’t know how harmful it was and now has become.
“I hope you know and others know I’m not the type of person I was at 14 and 15 that I tweeted so recklessly… I don’t want that to be the impression of who I am because that is not me. I apologize for what I did.”
