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The Bengals Should Take A Chance on Another Ross In the Near Future

  The Cincinnati Bengals have announced that they will be not being picking up the fifth-year option on the former first-round pick, speedy wide receiver, John Ross. Maybe that means they have opportunity to take a chance on another Ross in the 2021 NFL draft... Clemson's Justyn Ross

  Justyn Ross was the no.1 wide receiver out of Alabama coming out of high school in 2017, ironically he chose to attend Clemson. Since arriving to Clemson, Ross has lived up to the hype. In his first season, as a true Freshman, he [Ross] caught 46 passes for 1,000 yards (led team) and 9 receiving touchdowns (2nd on team). Also, in the National Championship he had 6 receptions for a career-high 153 yards receiving and a touchdown as the Tigers defeated Alabama. In just two seasons at Clemson, Ross has racked up over 1,800 yards receiving on 100 receptions with 17 touchdowns.

It was just announced in late May 2020, Ross will miss the 2020-21 season after undergoing an off-season neck surgery. Ross' career could be in jeopardy depending on his recovery and rehab goes but there's a chance that he returns to football.

In the past, neck injuries, usually means the end of football careers. However, with determination and a great trainer and maybe an entire year removed from football, maybe there's a chance that Ross makes a full recovery and his football career resumes. If this happens and Ross is cleared to return by doctors, I believe that the Bengals should show interest (considering he enters the draft). They will be moving on from wide receiver John Ross, more than likely. Also, it's possible, they could be moving on from veteran A.J. Green as well. They just drafted his former Clemson teammate Tee Higgins in the second round of the 2020 draft. With the depth that they have in the wide receiver room, the Bengals will have opportunity to take chance drafting. If Ross can get back to at least 80% of the player he was and he falls to the later rounds of the draft, the Bengals could be a perfect landing spot for him. As of right now, obviously, I can only speak hypothetically because there is still so much that is unknown. But, it would be interesting for both the Bengals and Ross.

Justyn Ross took to Twitter on June 5, 2020 to announce that his surgery went well. He just recently posted a video, rehabbing in the pool with his neck brace on. NBC Sports posted an article about Ross and his recovery, check it out.

The most important thing for Ross is his healthy first. But, think about how fun a team with Burrow, Higgins, Joe Mixon, Tyler Boyd and Justyn Ross would be in the year 2021 or 22?

There Is One Thing The National Football League Still Hasn't Done

  The National Football League and Commissioner Roger Goodell released a statement on May 30, 2020 in regards to the protests that have been taking place across the country due to George Floyd, an unarmed black man in Minneapolis, MN., being murdered by the police on May 25, 2020.

NFL Statement via Twitter

By their tweet, Goodell and the NFL would lead you to believe that they stand behind the black community as they look to gain civil justice and equality, following the murder of another unarmed African American. However, their actions have proven otherwise over recent years. The tweet that they are still missing is a public apology to former San Francisco quarterback Colin Kaepernick.

In 2016, the 49ers' quarterback led the way, as players exercised their American right to a peaceful protest, by taking a knee during the National Anthem before games. This blew up across the media and it gained a lot of steam through the league and a more and more players began to participate. This form of protest got a lot of criticism and was taken out of context by many. They accused Kaepernick and others who took a knee of being unpatriotic and going against the military and protesting the US flag. In reality, this was never about the military nor the flag. Kaepernick clearly explained many times that this was about police brutality against unarmed/innocent black people and civil injustice.



The NFL made created a rule stating that players are not allowed to take a knee during the National Anthem. Players who violated this rule would be disciplined. A lot of teams started to implement this rule themselves, also, because they didn't want to be fined by the league due to player breaking this rule.

At the conclusion of the 2016 season Kaepernick would become a free agent, no team would look to sign him either. There was a lot of talk that teams didn't want the "media circus" that came with signing him or the famous excuse of "he's a distraction" but in reality were those ever really valid reasons to not sign a quarterback who was in his prime and just three years removed from taking his team to the Super Bowl? It seemed like the NFL had pretty much black-balled the outspoken quarterback for his take on the governments lack of civil justice for the black community and equality that still plagues America today.

The last game Colin Kaepernick played in was on January 1, 2017. The 49ers would come up short again the Seattle Seahawks 25-23; Kaepernick was 17-22 for 215 yards and 1 passing touchdown.

The National Football League and Roger Goodell can't expect for people actually buy this support as sincere and pure, when just a few years ago they penalized players for standing against these civil matters. If they want to anyone to buy their condolences and apologies to the family of George Floyd, others who had come before him like Michael Brown or Sandra Blatt... They need to start with an apology to Colin Kaepernick.