Seattle defender Brad Evans has never been reticent about speaking his mind, both in the aftermath of last year’s MLS Collective Bargaining Agreement negotiations (for which he was a players’ union rep) and otherwise. As the Sounders captain, he’s also a keen observer of locker room dynamics.
Asked Thursday about the Colin-Kaepernick-inspired national discussion about athlete activism — on whether he would welcome a similar stance from one of his teammates and how he’d handle the resulting blowback — Evans was characteristically introspective.
Below are the highlights of that conversation, edited for length and clarity.
“Earlier in the year, I made a joke with a Trump tweet and that obviously got some traction,” Evans said.