“Antonio Brown deceived the NFL, Aaron Rodgers’ status was known”: Ryan Clark justifies why Bucs WR was suspended and Packers QB wasn’t, it’s “not about race”

Antonio Brown

Antonio Brown became one of a couple other players who was suspended by the NFL for lying about their vaccine status or breaking NFL covid protocols.

Earlier, reports had come out claiming that Antonio Brown had faked his vaccination status. Those reports were fueled by screenshots between Brown’s girlfriend and his chef which showed that Brown was agreeing to pay for a fake vaccination card.

Before the NFL took any official action, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers dealt with the matters their own way and suspended Brown for three games. The Bucs also suspended backup safety Mike Edward and free agent John Franklin III was also suspended.

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Ryan Clark tries to explain why Antonio Brown was suspended but Aaron Rodgers wasn’t

Brown’s suspension is making rounds because of reasons you’d expect. After all, he did lie about his vaccination status, and given the current climate with the pandemic, that’s a serious infraction.

Just a few weeks ago, however, something very similar happened with another high profile player. Aaron Rodgers contracted Covid-19, and reports revealed that he too had lied about his vaccine status.

In the summer, Rodgers had led the media to believe that he had been vaccinated because he said that he was “immunized.” That meant a completely different than people would have thought it did as Rodgers was trying to push the league to adopt an homeopathic treatment as an acceptable alternate to the vaccine.

The league declined, and we were in the midst of a controversy. Rodgers was under fire for his actions as he was repeatedly violating league rules by acting out of line as an unvaccinated player. However, unlike Brown, Rodgers was not suspended and didn’t receive any punishment. With Brown being suspended now, people are absolutely livid, wondering why Rodgers wasn’t subject to the same punishment.

Former NFL safety and current NFL analyst Ryan Clark tried to justify why this was the case and tried to dispell the notion that Brown’s suspension was racially charged.

Of course, people had their rebuttals to this too.

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Post Edited By: Ashish Priyadarshi
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Ashish Priyadarshi is The SportsRush's content manager and editor. Ashish freelanced for 1 year in the NFL division before taking on an editorial role in the company. He then tacked on managing content while adding on a writing role in the NBA division. Ashish has been closely following the NFL and NBA since the 2012 season when the Patriots lost the Super Bowl and Derrick Rose was at the height of his powers. Since then, Ashish has focused on honing his knowledge for both leagues in, even writing crossover pieces. In his free time, Ashish is an avid basketball player, he loves to watch movies and TV shows, immersing himself in the cinematic world. Ashish studies computer science and data science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and would love to mesh his love for sports with his technical skills.

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