According to ESPN’s Joe Schad, part of the reason Chip Kelly has done an about-face on Blount is the way the LeGarrette has impressed many well-respected people in the community, including football’s favorite reputation-voucher and guiding light, Tony Dungy.
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Among those people are Tony Dungy, Jon Gruden, Kermit Washington and noted sociologist and scholar Harry Edwards, a professor emeritus at Cal-Berkley.
I’m curious to know if these meetings were all separately or if instead this is now the panel that all football players who have wronged society must stand before in judgment.
Another reason Kelly might want to give Blount the benefit of the doubt is the fact that he recently became a father and now has a family that needs to be provided for, something a pro career could certainly do.
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