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What Can the NFL, Players Do About Inappropriate Questioning at the NFL Combine?

During this week’s NFL combine in Indianapolis, representatives from NFL teams asked LSU running back Derrius Guice bigoted questions that, unfortunately, are hardly unprecedented at the NFL’s annual showcase.

Do you like men?

I heard your mom sells herself—how do you feel about that?

These queries say more about the foolishness of the questioner than anything about the player. Yet that dynamic hasn’t stopped prejudicial questions from being asked. At the 2016 combine, an Atlanta Falcons assistant coach asked then-Ohio State cornerback Eli Apple, “So do you like men?” Similarly, during the 2013 combine, Colorado tight end Nick Kasa listened to a grown man ask him whether he "likes girls.