By Mike Freeman | Bleacher Report
It was just a few months ago that Michael Bennett made an observation about the NFL that remains a dominant theme now.
“The NFL doesn’t want us to be individuals,” Bennett told me in January. “Look at the NBA; they are allowed to market themselves and think about their life after basketball. The NFL is all about the shield, the shield, the shield. I could go on all day about the hypocrisy of that.”