Houston Texans players reportedly considered walking out en masse on Friday following comments made by team owner Bob McNair, and Pro Bowl WR DeAndre Hopkins was missing from Friday's practice.
An ESPN report by Seth Wickersham and Don Van Natta Jr. related a story of McNair saying in a closed-door players-owners meeting two weeks ago that "we [NFL team owners] can't have the inmates running the prison."
According to ESPN's Adam Schefter, Hopkins' absence was related to those comments. Schefter tweeted Friday that "Texans players wanted to walkout today in response to Bob McNair's comments, per @sarahbarshop.