Sadly, this awful, irrelevant and potentially illegal line of questioning directed by a team toward a NFL draft prospect isn't new.
Just two years ago, the Atlanta Falcons' then defensive backs coach Marquand Manuel asked then-Ohio State CB Eli Apple a similar question regarding his sexual preference. That was on the heels of multiple 2013 NFL Draft prospects fielding the same question from clubs. In 2010, the Miami Dolphins infamously asked Dez Bryant whether his mother was a prostitute.
NFL spokesperson Brian McCarthy told Pro Football Talk in a statement on Thursday that "a question such as that is completely inappropriate and wholly contrary to league workplace policies.