Laremy Tunsil still believes he’s the best left tackle in the NFL.
Tunsil has been trying to get over what cost him millions when social media erupted, showing him smoking with a gas mask on.
Sexton told him not to panic. Tunsil immediately thought his social media accounts had been hacked because of the agent’s tone and because it happened to him before in middle school and high school. He expected it to be something minor and inconsequential. Sexton didn’t want Tunsil to react, since cameras were on him. He checked Twitter and saw the video—made a few years back on a random afternoon at Ole Miss when he was just doing college kid stuff in his dorm, comically taking a big rip from a gas mask bong—and he thought his dream of being a first-round pick was over. per Complex.
A member of the 49ers asked Tunsil: “Did you post that on your Instagram and Twitter?” He says he told the truth: yes, it was him, somebody hacked his accounts, he made a mistake in college, he was young, he wasn’t thinking it would come back to hurt him, and he had no idea why he hadn’t deleted the video. The conversation continued briefly and then Tunsil says there was a pause for two minutes—an incredible amount of time to remain silent on the phone—until he was told, “Well, I hope this doesn’t mess up your night,” and the call ended.
The real question, if we are being honest, is who leaked the video.
There are actual internet sleuths who have done some digging and think they have figured out who it is. I will say this whoever did it, bad karma will come their way.
Precisely who hacked Tunsil’s social media accounts remains partly cloudy. The Palm Beach Post reported that the Dolphins believed his former financial adviser was behind the leaked gas mask bong video on Twitter. While the Post notably did not name the financial adviser, it did write that he was fired before the draft by Tunsil. Other reported pieces sprouted up in the wake of the incident, and there’s even a mini-documentary on YouTube that tries to get to the bottom of it. Football fans may call bullsh*t, but when you ask Tunsil directly if he knows who leaked the video, he swears he doesn’t. Nor does he care to ever find out.
In the end, it was just weed, and now you can smoke weed in the NFL with no penalty. A lot of the guys drafted before Tunsil, and he is still out here flourishing, so he is the big winner in all this.
Flip the page for the old video of Tunsil smoking through a gas mask.
