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Former San Francisco 49er Eric Reid hasn’t been able to find an NFL team to pick him up after he kneeled alongside teammate Colin Kaepernick.
Now the free agent safety believes its collusion between NFL owners that is keeping him from sealing a deal so he’s filed a grievance against NFL owners and secured attorney Mark Geragos, reports Deadspin.
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Geragos is also handling Kaepernick’s collusion lawsuit after the quarterback was blackballed from the NFL for kneeling during the national anthem. Kaepernick was protesting police brutality and racial injustice and Reid took up the cause alongside his teammate and started kneeling too.
Recently Reid had a glimmer of hope and met with NFL owners secretly along with other football players, in an effort to figure out how players could advance their social justice causes without it causing a conflict with the league.
But now that Reid is a free agent and still hasn’t secured a deal, he believes the owners are colluding, especially because he called out the owners during that secret meeting and defended Kaepernick.
“I feel like he was hung out to dry,” Reid said of Kaepernick. “Everyone in here is talking about how much they support us.” The room fell quiet. “Nobody stepped up and said we support Colin’s right to do this. We all let him become Public Enemy No. 1 in this country, and he still doesn’t have a job.”
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The NFL Players Association responded in a statement saying:
“Our union is aware that Eric Reid and his legal representatives filed a collusion claim, which will be heard through the arbitration process as spelled out in our collective bargaining agreement,” the Association said in a statement Wednesday.
“Our union supports Eric and we are considering other legal options to pursue.”
Reid became a free agent last week and was one of the first players to kneel with Kaepernick in the 2016-17 season.
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