Thursday saw news of new social-distancing guidelines handed down by the NFL in order to mitigate contact between player, especially in the postgame setting, where, for example, jersey exchanges will be banned for the 2020 season amid the COVID-19 pandemic. San Francisco 49ers veteran cornerback Richard Sherman shared a strong reaction to the new NFL guidelines, calling out the league for hypocrisy.

“This is a perfect example of NFL thinking in a nutshell,” Sherman, 32, wrote on his official Twitter page. “Players can go engage in a full contact game and do it safely. However, it is deemed unsafe for them to exchange jerseys after said game.”

A five-time Pro Bowl selection, Sherman recently appeared in his third career Super Bowl when the 49ers lost in Miami to Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs. Sherman previously appeared in two title games with the Seattle Seahawks, where he started his professional tenure as a fifth-round selection out of Stanford in the 2011 NFL Draft, winning Super Bowl XLVIII in 2013-14.

Sherman has long been an outspoken professional athlete; earlier this offseason, the three-time All-Pro First Team member put Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones on blast for his silence during the nation's protests of inequality. Sherman told the San Francisco Chronicle:

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“It’s not pulling them like it is the rest of the country 
 Because if it was, then they’d speak. Jerry Jones, especially, has no problem speaking up any other time about anything else. But when it’s such a serious issue, and he could really make a huge impact on it with a few words, his silence speaks volumes.”

Sherman's willingness to speak up and against certain issues has long rubbed people the wrong way, and on Thursday he was not afraid to share his personal feelings on the perceived hypocrisy of the NFL implementing guidelines that allow for playing a contact sport but not interacting postgame.