Hall-of-Famer Carmichael: HBCU Shutout in 2021 Draft "Very, Very Troublesome"
No HBCU players were drafted this year, and that makes the Centennial Class inductee and HBCU product "really sad."
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No HBCU players were drafted this year, and that makes the Centennial Class inductee and HBCU product "really sad."
When players from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) were shut out from this year’s NFL draft for the first time in over a decade, Hall-of-Famer Deion Sanders – now the head football coach at Jackson State -- was appalled.
“NEGLECTED AND REJECTED,” he tweeted.
The caps are his, not mine. And they reflect his outrage that, among 259 players drafted, not one was from an HBCU program. But Sanders wasn’t alone. Plenty of others joined the outcry, including former Grambling State quarterback Doug Williams, the first African-American quarterback to win a Super Bowl.