Brent Yarina, BTN.com Senior Editor, January 29, 2014

Former Northwestern quarterback Kain Colter took to Twitter on Wednesday morning to further explain why he's spearheading the effort to unionize college football and is willing to be the face of the College Athletes Players Association. Colter thinks a players union is necessary in the today's game, to address players' health and safety, and he's doing all of this work to help future players. See his tweets, the first ones since the news broke, in this post.

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