I'm not afraid of who I am. I'm not afraid to tell the world who I am. I'm Michael Sam, I'm a college graduate, I'm African-American and I'm gay.

I just want to know if I'm truly not in the NFL, it's because of talent. Let it be because of my talents. But you've got to prove that I can't play this game. If you look at the film, clearly I can. So, I'll leave it at that.

The players who have reached out to me and told me about their sexual orientation, it just means a lot.

But I will never say anything about who they are, what teams they are on. I'm just saying there's some famous people, and I'm not the only one.

Was it a risky move? Yes, but at that moment, the reason why I came out is I thought it wasn't going to be a big deal. Maybe I was naive. Maybe I thought it was 2014, and people will understand that there's gay NFL players. There's gay athletes everywhere. But I was clearly wrong. It was a huge deal.

It has all happened so quickly, but it's exciting, I just wanna get back to playing football you know.

Great things happen when you have the courage to be yourself