{"id":459900,"date":"2021-04-27T13:35:54","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T17:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=459900"},"modified":"2021-04-27T13:35:56","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T17:35:56","slug":"espns-the-undefeated-slams-nfl-as-racist-ignores-that-the-four-highest-paid-quarterbacks-are-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/espns-the-undefeated-slams-nfl-as-racist-ignores-that-the-four-highest-paid-quarterbacks-are-black\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPN\u2019s \u2018The Undefeated\u2019 Slams NFL As Racist, Ignores That The Four Highest-Paid Quarterbacks Are Black"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fespns-the-undefeated-slams-nfl-as-racist-ignores-that-the-four-highest-paid-quarterbacks-are-black%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=459900&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-541.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p><span>In a piece titled, \u201cJustin Fields And The Double Standard Of Black Quarterback Prospects,\u201d Martenzie Johnson claimed that black quarterbacks are treated unfairly, using Justin Field\u2019s draft stock as evidence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Writing for \u201cThe Undefeated,\u201d which is owned by ESPN, Johnson <a href=\"https:\/\/theundefeated.com\/features\/justin-fields-and-the-double-standard-of-black-quarterback-prospects-nfl-draft\/\">claimed<\/a> that \u201cThe NFL draft process displayed how race plays a part in evaluating talent.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cMake no mistake, Fields will be one of the first five quarterbacks taken in the draft. But the fact that he started the college season as the consensus No. 2 quarterback prospect, before inexplicably dropping as low as the fifth quarterback at times in some mock drafts \u2014 behind two white players with lesser pedigrees \u2014 is an indictment of an antiquated system as it pertains to Black quarterbacks,\u201d Johnson argued.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cBut anyone who has been following professional football shouldn\u2019t be surprised by this. Race has always been a justification for barring Black players from playing certain positions, coaching or managing teams, or even playing in the sport altogether,\u201d he later claimed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Then, Johnson argued that the \u201centire football-industrial complex\u201d is a \u201cracial institution.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe can leave the draft evaluating to the experts, but with zero explanation, two white quarterbacks with comparable or lesser resumes than Fields were suddenly can\u2019t-miss picks. Whether that is true is irrelevant; it\u2019s more about what happened to Fields since he declared for the draft that exposes the draft process \u2013 and the entire football-industrial complex \u2013 for the, let\u2019s say, racial institution that it is,\u201d Johnson wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Johnson later added that \u201cwhen it comes to Black quarterbacks in particular, the NFL has long gone out of its way to keep the position as white as the painted yard lines on the field.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cQuarterbacks are expected to be smart, rational decision-makers who command a team and act as the de facto coach on the field. Accuracy and strong arms are a plus, but it mostly comes down to what\u2019s between your ears rather than any other physical attribute. As the authors of The Bell Curve would have you believe, few Black men possess those attributes,\u201d Johnson claimed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Unfortunately for Johnson, the reality of the NFL suggests otherwise. During the opening weekend of the 2020\/2021 season, for example, there were 10 black starting quarterbacks, the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackenterprise.com\/there-were-10-black-starting-quarterbacks-on-opening-weekend-in-the-nfl-marking-the-most-in-nfl-history\/\"><span>most in NFL history<\/span><\/a><span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Cam Newton, Teddy Bridgewater, Dwayne Haskins, Lamar Jackson, Patrick Mahomes, Kyler Murray, Dak Prescott, Tyrod Taylor, Deshaun Watson, and Russell Wilson all started for their respective teams in the quarterback position.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Not only that, the four highest paid players at quarterback in the NFL \u2014 Patrick Mahomes, Dak Prescott, Deshaun Watson, and Russell Wilson \u2014 are all black.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Mahomes, whose team has won the Super Bowl and who was 2018 league MVP, is the highest-paid NFL quarterback, with a salary of $45 million. The Cowboys\u2019 Prescott is second, with a salary of $40 million, while the Texans\u2019 Watson is third with $39 million, and Wilson of the Seahawks at fourth, with $35 million.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a piece titled, \u201cJustin Fields And The Double Standard Of Black Quarterback Prospects,\u201d Martenzie Johnson claimed that black quarterbacks are treated unfairly, using Justin Field\u2019s draft stock as evidence.Writing &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2276832,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-541.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"ESPN\u2019s \u2018The Undefeated\u2019 Slams NFL As Racist, Ignores That The Four Highest-Paid Quarterbacks Are Black","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-459900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-541.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"ESPN\u2019s \u2018The Undefeated\u2019 Slams NFL As Racist, Ignores That The Four Highest-Paid Quarterbacks Are Black","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2276832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}