There’s more to Martellus Bennett than football. He’s an author of a children’s book, and recently started his own smartphone app. And he has ambitions to do so much more.

“I feel like I’m the Kanye of the NFL,” Bennett told ESPN.com in an article that’s filled with quotes from the tight end and his brother, Seahawks defensive lineman Michael Bennett.

Martellus Bennett gave more context for those remarks on Wednesday after practice at Patriots training camp.

“I said some people call me the Kanye of the NFL, only because I think outside of the box and I’m progressive in the way I’m thinking,” Bennett said Wednesday after practice. “I’m not limiting myself to be one type of individual, I’m open and expanding my own box, and building my own place in the world. That’s basically what I meant. Whether it’s dabbling in music, movies, wanting to build furniture, there’s so much I want to do. I want to build theme parks, I want to build hotels, and I want to win Super Bowls. It’s just one of those things. For [Kanye], he wants to make music, he wants to win Grammys, which is his Super Bowl trophy, and then off the field, he makes clothes and everything else that he wants to do. I just feel like it’s having a dynamic personality as far as an ability to learn and create and make things for others, and make the world a better place through the things that you do and the things that you make.”


Bennett also said he learns from athletes like Muhammad Ali. That has been apparent in his colorful interviews so far at training camp.