She now hopes to not only convince those who participate in the sport to both refrain from and prevent such tragedies, she’d like to use its mammoth reach to spread the word to men all over that they have a key role to play in improving the situation.
When Smith-Williams heard her tell his team that men needed to ask themselves if they were solving the problem or exacerbating it, he took it to heart.
The team then known as the Washington Football Team didn’t draft him until the seventh round, and soon after that endured a franchise crisis that affected every member of the organization, even if they didn’t know it – or were a late-round rookie who hadn’t even made the active roster yet.
The NFL won’t announce its 2022 schedule for several more weeks, but he came in town this spring to do a video and photo shoot that Brenda had hired me to help with.
That’s part of his personality, but I also think it’s because he simply believes, as a man, that helping remedy the problems others of his gender have caused is the right thing to do.
