Minutes after coming out on the winning end of one of the most exciting games of this NFL season, after leading his team on a game-winning, 75-yard touchdown drive that began with just 46 seconds left in the fourth quarter and one timeout in hand, after breaking the all-time NFL rookie record for passing yards in a game, Houston Texans quarterback C.J. Stroud didn't immediately talk about any of those things.
First he needed to speak up about the corruption of the American justice system.
It's a deeply personal issue for Stroud, as his father, Coleridge, is currently serving a 38 years-to-life sentence in California after pleading guilty to several charges in 2015.