Connor Barwin, Philadelphia Eagle

[ice grillin you]

Barwin was actually Celek's backup TE at Cincinnati.

no less than four bearcats on the roster right now

travis kelce in the draft?

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Before any gay NFL player comes out of the closet, he needs to have some sense of what will happen when he does.

If he's a member of the Texans, he has a strong supporter in linebacker Connor Barwin.

Barwin, who has an openly gay brother, tells Outsports.com that the process of a player coming out may not be as difficult as believed, although at first it could be a challenge.

"I think right now it would probably be hard for a guy to come out in our locker room just because of the awkwardness," Barwin said.  "But I think they would be surprised at how welcoming people would be.  I think at the end of the day guys care about how you play football, because we're all so competitive about winning that if there is a guy who comes out as gay in our locker room and he's a good football player, people aren't going to care about that.  I think that's the honest truth.  I think guys care about what kind of person they are, what kind of teammate they are and how good they are at helping us win."

Barwin suggested that, if the player issn't a contributor or if teammates don't like the player's personality, it could be more problematic.  "But I could be wrong," Barwin said. "It's amazing how many people know relatives or friends who are gay, so I think it might not be as hard as some people think."

Barwin also has a theory for how the first player will come out, and that it won't happen via a press conference or any other obvious declaration.

"The first guy that does come out in the NFL might confide in some of his friends and it might spread and be accepted throughout the locker room," Barwin said.  "And people would just get to know he's gay and people will move on with football, the season and their life and realize it's not a big deal at all.  There's nothing different about what they're doing.  There's nobody having sex in the locker room, so there's nothing really different."

It could happen sooner than anyone realizes.  Barwin, who said he has noticed a sharp decline in the use of gay slurs in and around football, believes adjustments to the mindset of the locker room constantly are being made.

"Things are changing rapidly, very rapidly," Barwin said.

[Diomedes]

http://www.buzzfeed.com/katienotopoulos/connor-barwin-is-the-nfls-biggest-hipster

[ice grillin you]

this will end well

[PhillyPhreak54]

Yeah he's a weirdo.

Him, Celek and Kelce will be gangbanging the hispter chicks of Philly

[ice grillin you]

Yeah he's a weirdo.

Him, Celek and Kelce will be gangbanging the hispter chicks of Philly

susie would cut celeks balls off....she is not to be trifiled with

[PhillyPhreak54]

I thought they got divorced.

Gotta throw Dorenbos into the weirdo group too.

Those four could reenact the hangover

[ice grillin you]

oh they did?....shes still on wip all the time...she reenacted the superbowl kissing commerical in the wip studio with some nerd intern....i thought it was such a big deal cause she still was married to celek

[PhillyPhreak54]

shtein if I know - I thought I read it somewhere. Could be wrong since I don't really go the TMZ route on the players...except Trotter and McNabb

[ice grillin you]

i usually keep up pretty good with that stuff....but a quick google told me they divorced almost two years ago....i guess shes on wip still just because shes a trick....shes usually on with julie dorenbus...really you gotta wonder why shes even still in philly...trolling brent i suppose

[SD]

http://www.buzzfeed.com/katienotopoulos/connor-barwin-is-the-nfls-biggest-hipster

wouldn't it be ironic if he didn't make the opening day roster

[reese125]

"He was more on the open side two years ago," Roseman said of Barwin's 11.5-sack campaign. "He was more in position to set the edge and cover the tight end this year. We watched him two years ago on the open side and then even this year when they played the Lions when he was doing it more. ... We think we know what we're getting here in a high-motor guy."

[Sgt PSN]

Connor Barwin is Dio's new favorite player.

[ice grillin you]

ha.....so awful

[Seabiscuit36]

ha.....so awful

Outside of the hipster music reviews, It's a good story I thought.  Grew up on the outskirts of Detroit, played ball in the city, had a gay brother.  But yeah, middle class white people are the worst.