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Before the Ted Wells report on Deflategate was released on Wednesday, it looked like Bills running back LeSean McCoy’s assertion that Eagles coach Chip Kelly got rid of “all the good black players” the “fastest” since becoming the coach of the Eagles.

It’s not the first time that Kelly’s been the target of such a broadside as ESPN talking head Stephen A. Smith made similar comments shortly after McCoy was traded to the Bills that McCoy referenced in the ESPN Magazine interview featuring his own thoughts. Not everyone jettisoned by Kelly this offseason shares the viewpoint.

Longtime Eagles guard Todd Herremans, who is white and now plays for the Colts, was released before the Eagles traded McCoy (and signed DeMarco Murray and Ryan Mathews to fill his spot in the backfield) and was asked by a Twitter follower if he thought Kelly was a racist.

“I feel he is equally racist to all races … which I guess would make him … not racist,” Herremans wrote.

Last month, McCoy suggested that Kelly got rid of him and other players because he doesn’t like or respect star players. McCoy may not consider Herremans (or Nick Foles or other white players dispatched from Philly in the last few years) to be a star, but the sum total of Kelly’s moves suggest that skin color isn’t the determining factor of who stays or goes.