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Ex-NFL TE Martellus Bennett Says Packers Fans Sent Death Threats When He Protested Against Racism & Police Brutality

October 25, 2021

Martellus Bennett has never been shy to discuss any topic.

The former NFL tight end and Super Bowl Champion said he received death threats and other “hateful messages” from Green Bay Packers fans after protesting during the national anthem in 2017.

Bennett posted a series of tweets on Saturday expressing his belief that his short stint with the Packers came to an end in part because of his decision to protest:

Packers fans were sending hate mail and leaving death threats and other hateful messages on the team voicemail because I was protesting. It got so bad that Doug Collins the head of team security was worried something might happen to me in Wisconsin.
— Martellus Bennett (@MartysaurusRex) October 23, 2021

Doug told me Wisconsin wasn't the place for protesting and offered me a bunch of alternatives. Even holding hands and the flag with cops before the seahawks game. I told em nah.
— Martellus Bennett (@MartysaurusRex) October 23, 2021

In fact the entire situation to get me out of Green Bay was tied to protesting and the organization plotted to find a way to cut me and came up with some bullshit lol.
— Martellus Bennett (@MartysaurusRex) October 23, 2021

Bennett played 10 seasons in the NFL, most notably for the Dallas Cowboys from 2008-2011 and the New England Patriots in 2016, where he was apart of the 2016-17 Super Bowl team.

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