On Monday, Raiders defensive lineman Carl Nassib became the first active N.F.L. player to publicly declare he is gay. “I just want to take a quick moment to say that I’m gay,” Nassib said in a video posted to his Instagram account. “Sadly, I have agonized over this moment for the last 15 years,” he wrote in the same post.

Nassib, a five-year N.F.L. veteran who has also played with the Cleveland Browns and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, said he had been meaning to announce that he is gay for a while, but was finally “comfortable getting it off my chest.” Nassib, 28, thanked his coaches, teammates and the N.F.L.

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