Gay ex college footballer says he was hospitalised over stress of being closeted

Gay ex college footballer says he was hospitalised over stress of being closeted

Former Division I college football player Jake Eldridge has shared that he spent so much of his sports career hiding his sexuality that the stress put him in the hospital. Speaking to People on 27 January, he said he knew he was gay from a young age, but “football became the thing that kind of pushed everything else aside”. Eldridge was recruited to play football in Big 10 at Rutgers University, and it wasn’t long before the weight of hiding his…