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Been a ROUGH 24 hours for potential #1 overall pick Josh Allen. First, you have the old tweets that “surfaced” last night, even though we’ve seen them floating around Twitter for a while now, which BC mentioned in the screencaps this morning. Draft time always equals old tweets coming back and I don’t know how these guys don’t scrub their accounts right when they declare. Then you have reports that Baker Mayfield may be the guy at #1 now and that Allen may be the guy to fall a bit.
That brings me to this conspiracy theory that Schefty dropped on all of us this morning. It’s really what makes the NFL draft the greatest soap opera for men. Apparently, these tweets resurfacing the night before the draft may not just be the internet doing its thing, but actually a calculated move by another team to get Josh Allen to fall.
Seriously.
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
This would be peak NFL draft. Smokescreens and lies to reporters from teams has NOTHING on intentionally bringing back these tweets to get a guy to fall in the first round. Just a ruthless, ruthless move. The draft is cutthroat, man, and that’s why it’s the best.
Incredible. The draft is a damn soap opera for men. https://t.co/vJsVlQs8SX
— Dan (@AtIantaDan) April 26, 2018
Josh Allen has apologized, but it may be too late now
The former Wyoming quarterback acknowledged the tweets to ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith late Wednesday night and apologized, saying he was young and dumb.
The tweets no longer appear on Allen’s account. However, they contained racial slurs and other offensive language, according to Yahoo! Sports.
The tweets cited by Yahoo! Sports were sent in 2012 and 2013, when Allen was in high school.
Allen told Smith that some of the tweets made reference to rap lyrics and television, including a saying that was part of an episode from the sitcom “Modern Family.”
