Kenyan Drake urges NFL to crack down on dangerous tackle

Raiders moving backmost Kenyan Drake suffered a superior ankle wounded Sunday against the Washington Football Team, an wounded that is expected to sideline him the remainder of the season.

Late Sunday night, Drake took to societal media to impulse the NFL to wage much attraction to the benignant of tackle helium was progressive successful that led to the injury.

In doing so, Drake pointed retired that the NFL mightiness beryllium paying excessively overmuch attraction to eliminating taunting from the crippled and protecting quarterbacks and not capable to the benignant of unsafe tackle that unfolded connected Sunday.

Graphic Video Warning: The #NFL needs to look astatine this circumstantial benignant of tackling. They are throwing flags for taunting and protecting qbs from getting touched but this is my 2nd consecutive play being injured by a feline pulling maine backmost and utilizing his assemblage value to rotation up my legs. pic.twitter.com/zgJt4rM9yG

— Kenyan Drake™ (@KDx32) December 6, 2021

Drake sent 2 tweets connected Sunday, the archetypal read:

“Graphic Video Warning: The #NFL needs to look astatine this circumstantial benignant of tackling. They are throwing flags for taunting and protecting qbs from getting touched but this is my 2nd consecutive play being injured by a feline pulling maine backmost and utilizing his assemblage value to rotation up my legs.”

The follow-up tweet read:

“If the accent is to support the players this should beryllium an amerciable signifier of tackling similar a equine collar. We suffer players play to precocious ankle sprains and breached bones but the league would alternatively emblem players for erroneous taunting penalties. Let’s get the priorities together.”

Soon aft the station was retweeted by, among others, New Orleans Saints moving backmost Mark Ingram.

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