is the evidence.

what does that even mean?

you are a player in the SEC, about to get ready for the NFL Draft.

you held this secret from your teammates from the better part of your career and felt you had to say something to then.

and now you are a DPOY for the SEC. Whether you are good or not, how many cameras do you think are coming to chronicle your draft process?

how many NFL Network, ESPN, etc producers are thinking of "maybe" including his journey to the NFL?

so you are sitting here, with a boyfriend, with this opportunity of a lifetime, one shot deal in most cases to get to the league, and you want him to keep this is a secret?????

with teammates also going through the draft process? with coaches also knowing? with any person who could spill the beans about his life? and with all his shit about to be put on blast???

how would he keep it to himself?

but beyond that, if he is an average kid in America anywhere, and is gay, why should he keep it a secret? when senior prom comes should he just be like "naw I aint gotta date" and miss out? it definitely matters man. You can struggle unprovoked just by the way society is set up, but it is unrealistic to think that he could have just kept his mouth shut inevitably for the sake of not injuring our fragile American psyche.