Which Netflix characters are Bill Belichick and these 6 other NFL figures?

New England Patriots tight end Martellus Bennett suffered an ankle injury in the first quarter of a Week 5 game against the Cleveland Browns. He was slow to get up and trainers ran on to the field to attend to him, so Bennett did what any one of us would have done: He asked how a Netflix character would handle the situation.

“They asked me if I needed a cart and I was like ‘I’m going to look so weak.’ I’ve been watching Luke Cage, he’s the bulletproof brother from Marvel, and I’m like ‘What would Luke Cage do right now?’” Bennett told ESPN’s Mike Reiss. “He’d get up and keep bouncing around.”

Bennett — channeling his inner Luke Cage — managed to limp to the sideline, shake off the injury, and return to catch three touchdowns from Tom Brady, the first three-touchdown game of his career.

It was a performance that would’ve made Marvel proud.

But he’s not the only player who reminds of us of a Netflix character. There are a few in the NFL that resemble some of our favorites from the digital streaming service:

The Washington quarterback isn’t like your usual NFL player. He drives a beat-up van, makes Lord of the Rings references, plays music with a band called Midnight Pilot, and his most famous moment is screaming “You like that!” in the locker room — before eventually trademarking the phrase.

He’s an excitable and goofy person who loves positivity. Basically, he’s a total Hufflepuff.

That sounds a lot like Dustin Henderson, the most lovable of the middle schoolers in Stranger Things. He’s the peacemaker of the group of friends, and helped the solve the mystery with his knowledge of compasses.

Dustin loves snack foods like chocolate pudding. Kirk has strong opinions on barbecue restaurants.

Kimmy Schmidt is a lovable weirdo who can’t let go of trends from 15 years ago because she spent that time being held captive in a bunker in Indiana.

Andrew Luck is a lovable weirdo who can’t let go of the flip phone trend from 15 years ago because ... well, for no good reason, really. Jim Irsay is holding him captive in Indiana, though, because the Colts aren’t giving him much help at all.

No quarterback in the league has been sacked more times than Luck this season. He has been sacked or hit 486 times since entering the NFL in 2012.

And yet against all odds, like Kimmy, Luck is not only still standing, but somehow remains infectiously upbeat. He’s the kind of guy who would tell a teammate — or an opponent — “You smell like summer.”

Because no matter what life throws at them, they’re resilient.

Unbreakable, he’s alive dammit/ It’s a miracle
Unbreakable, he’s alive dammit / But Andrew is strong as hell

Playing for the Browns, by definition, means inserting yourself into the center of chaos. Only one man stands as the thread connecting a decade’s worth of terrible football teams that threaten to tear apart like so much monkey bread: left tackle Joe Thomas.

If there were one man to pull Cleveland from its increasingly familiar routine of spectacular self destruction, it would be Thomas. The eight-time All-Pro is the only Brown to consistently win postseason honors. He is often the only hope to pull his team from its decades-long bender of bad football and towards the light of respectability. No matter how bad it gets, he’s been there, the lone sigil of hope throughout a dawn-less night.

Princess Carolyn, on the other hand, is Bojack Horseman’s belabored (spoiler alert) former agent. She is the only voice of sanity in a galaxy whose confidants include a golden retriever with neither an inner monologue or an understanding of subtlety, the slacker who composes space rock operas from his couch, and a former child star with a house literally made of drugs. When Bojack goes on a bender, she’s there to snap him back to reality. When he betrays all the other relationships in his life, she’s the one who remains thanks to a fierce, inexplicable loyalty.

Princess Carolyn is the only character in the Bojack universe who commands respect as a hardworking, successful person (or cat). Ditto for Thomas and the Browns.

Bonus: Rob Gronkowski as Mr. Peanutbutter. Gronk is basically just a golden retriever in human form anyway.

The Olsen twins sat on the sidelines for the Full House reboot. I can’t say that I blame them. It’s not like they need the work or the brand, um, enhancement that would come with reuniting with Bob Saget and those two creepy uncles. The cast only refers to Michelle, the Olsen twins’ character, but she never appears.

Jared Goff gets referred to a lot by the media and the Rams. Creepy uncle Jeff Fisher keeps insisting that he’s going to play a starring role when the time is right, but like the Olsen twins, he’s yet to appear in the team’s Los Angeles reboot.

The Olsen twins reprising their character probably wouldn’t have made Fuller House good television, but it would have helped. Goff probably doesn’t make the Rams a better team, but it couldn’t hurt.

The commissioner, as we all know, is the man in charge of the NFL. Goodell is known for implementing stricter penalties for players’ off-the-field issues, and is looked at as the protector of the NFL’s shield. Whatever the game needs, Goodell is unquestionably going to make it happen.

Kilgrave is a control freak. He’s able to control anybody that he wants, and get whatever he wants simply with his voice ... except for Jessica Jones.

Goodell very much controls everything as well: He keeps players from celebrating, he makes them change cleats during games, he forces them to sit and talk to the media. He even got Tom Brady’s Deflategate suspension upheld! But the one thing he can’t control is how players and fans feel about his leadership. The love (or lack thereof) that players and fans have for Roger Goodell is his Jessica Jones.

A classically good-looking guy who is willing to do anything, rules or laws be damned, to benefit his “family”? Sounds familiar.

Frank Underwood is powerful, successful, and ruthless, and his closest NFL comparison has to be Patriots head coach Bill Belichick.

Belichick has unchecked power over New England’s draft and roster decisions, being one of just two head coaches in the NFL to serve as a team’s de facto general manager. Much like Underwood, Belichick is content to wield this power behind the scenes as opposed to being flashy about it.

And he’s successful. In New England, Belichick has gone 161-69 for an all-time win percentage of .735. Four Super Bowl rings, numerous playoff appearances — Belichick’s Patriots have been a shining example of NFL success, with Belichick manipulating the team to greatness from the sideline.

But perhaps the way in which Belichick resembles Underwood the most is that he is willing to stop at nothing to make sure he wins. Deflategate is only the most recent and memorable Patriots scandal, one that resulted in Tom Brady earning a four-week suspension from Roger Goodell to start this season.

Before Deflategate, it was Spygate, when Belichick had an assistant film the Jets’ defensive signals. The league came down hard on the Patriots because the control Belichick exerted on the team’s operations was such that “his actions and decisions are properly attributed to the club.” How very Underwoodian.

“Of all the things I hold in high regards, rules are not one of them,” Frank Underwood said in Season 1 of House of Cards, and it’s pretty clear that Belichick agrees.