The MMQB's Peter King shares his thoughts on ex-Patriots TE Aaron Hernandez who committed suicide in prison while serving a life sentence.
There was an NFL meeting years back—well before Aaron Hernandez’s life went into the spiral that ended in a Massachusetts jail cell Wednesday morning—where the league brought in an FBI agent who worked with gangs.
The idea was to teach coaches and front office people what to look for. Symbols. Signs. Tattoos. Whatever. Anything to give information to the people making football decisions on the darker parts of the lives that some players clearly were living.