If I was an agent this was the first thing I’d tell my client to do.
Delete ALL your tweets before the Draft and start fresh. You still get to keep your followers and don’t have to worry about anything from your High School and college days coming back to haunt you. Each year there always seems to be one player that gets caught and that is why the NFL is trying to be proactive about it this year.
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.”
It’s something the prospects and the agents should have done anyway, and there have been plenty of past examples regarding the consequences of a failure to do so. The league apparently has gotten involved because it plans to highlight old tweets in a positive way during the draft. Once that door swings open, the league doesn’t want any of the old tweets that reflect on the player in a negative way to emerge.
The league also has provided specific instructions to agents on the procedure for harvesting old tweets, reviewing them, and getting rid of any that may cause problems.
In recent years Nick Bosa and Josh Allen have both been caught with racist tweets in their past. ESPN won’t report on it, but it is something that follows them around.
Flip the page for some of those bad tweets.