CNN CNN Newsroom With Ana Cabrera September 7, 2019 20:49:00
To make history as the first openly lgbtq athlete to play in the nfl. the 27-year-old is currently a free agent. he's played for the dallas cowboys and the tampa bay buccaneers before being released after a shoulder injury kept him sidelined last season. russell spoke to our colleague john berman earlier. >> sometimes it feels safer to hide parts of yourself that you're not yet comfortable with and i did that for years and once i felt ready to come out and felt ready to express who i was i just felt a weight lifted. i became a better brother. i became a better son. i believe i'll be a better t...