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When will they learn? Josh Allen latest draft prospect with inappropriate tweets making headlines
By Andrew Olson
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Someday, potential pro athletes will learn to clean up their Twitter accounts before reaching celebrity status. Today is not that day.
Wyoming QB Josh Allen – projected at No. 4 in a recent NFL.com mock draft – is the latest athlete who has had inappropriate past tweets exposed.
A graphic making the rounds on social media shows old Allen posts with some not safe for work and racially insensitive remarks.
Many will defend Allen for being a teenager who simply did not know better and never expected these tweets, from 2011-13, to be read by a national audience. In 2018, however, after so many athletes and other celebrities have had old, embarrassing tweets dug up, one wonders how no one suggested to Allen that his old tweets would potentially be looked at by teams, reporters and curious fans.
ESPN’s Adam Schefter reports that there is speculation that the tweets were possibly leaked by a team hoping to see Allen fall to a later pick in the draft.
The graphic with Allen’s inappropriate tweets can be seen below uncensored.
PSA to all players…
CLEAN 👏 UP 👏 YOUR 👏 TWITTER pic.twitter.com/SthOMnYF7N— RedditCFB (@RedditCFB) April 26, 2018
A theory two people in the past hour now have floated: another team plotted to have Josh Allen’s racially insensitive tweets put out just before the draft in order to increase the chances he would fall in the draft to that team.
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) April 26, 2018
Andrew writes about sports to fund his love of live music and collection of concert posters. He strongly endorses the Hall of Fame campaigns of Fred Taylor and Andruw Jones.
