I actually think his timing is brilliant. He knows that the media is supporting him, and you know the NFL will urge teams to be accepting of a gay player. They badly want that for PR reasons.
If he goes undrafted now, it looks bad on all the teams. He will get drafted, guaranteed.
He also doesn't have to evade questions during the combine or draft process, it's all out in the open.
If he was a lesser draft prospect, I could see it hurting him, but he had a draftable grade going into this, so the media support behind him will make at least one GM try to make a splash by drafting him.
Manti Teo had one of the weirdest pre-draft stories I can remember and he still got drafted highly.
You have to be pretty ignorant to think that teams that routinely draft drug dealers, rapists, drug abusers, wife beaters, drunk drivers, etc. are going to not draft a guy because he is gay.
And by the way, any guy in those lockerroom that has a problem with a gay teammate on religious grounds is a straight up hypocrite because they are surrounded by adulterers and sexual deviants all the time and seemingly have no issues with that
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