The NFL is reportedly encouraging draft prospects to scrub their Twitter accounts
Ah, yes. It’s that time a year once again. The NFL Draft is here and that means so are the people who go back through newly famous pro athletes’ social media accounts to look for dirt.
It’s happened time and time again over the years. We don’t have to go back very far to see some examples — Nick Bosa got the treatment when online users found out that he liked racist and homophobic posts on Instagram last year before being drafted.
To avoid this situation with draft prospects this year, the NFL is telling players’ agents to scrub their Twitter accounts, according to a Pro Football Talk report.
‘Per a league source, the NFL therefore has advised agents to “proactively scrub” negative tweets from prospect accounts, to ensure that none of these messages surface “during this critical time.”’
This league is clearly trying to get ahead of this thing before it happens to another top prospect this year.
It’s never a great look and always causes a bit of a stir before their team inevitably drafts them anyway. It’s pretty wack when people go back and dig up old tweets from the past, but it’s also wack to be intentionally offensive.
Of course, the correct way to stop this would simply be for these prospects to actually not post or like offensive things or record themselves doing something they wouldn’t do in public. (Like Laremy Tunsil did back when he hit a bong on camera.)
But, if they can’t do that? Then, absolutely, scrubbing social accounts is the right move. We’ll see if they avoid any of the social media drama this year.