High draft pick just took on a whole new meaning.
The Twitter account of projected top-5 pick Laremy Tunsil sent out a video showing a man who appears to be him smoking a bong through a gas mask minutes before Thursday’s NFL Draft.
Tunsil – an offensive lineman from Ole Miss – was present in Chicago for the draft when the video surfaced and quickly deleted the tweet and his entire account, but the video was still saved and uploaded on YouTube. Screenshots made the rounds on social media as well.
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After the Twitter fiasco, Tunsil’s Instagram posted two screenshots of texts, allegedly with a member of the Ole Miss football coaching staff asking for money to pay his rent and his mother’s bills. The coach seemingly complies.
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The screenshots are posted under the caption, “Coach freeze and the whole Ole Miss program are snakes. They cheat!”
Tunsil said at the draft – after he was chosen 13th overall by the Miami Dolphins – that his accounts were hacked. His agent claimed the same thing.According to Deadspin, the video had been shopped around.
The fiasco decimated his draft stock. Tunsil tumbled 10 picks lower than his projection, costing him millions in salary.
Tunsil made off-the-field news news earlier this week when his stepfather, Lindsey Miller,filed a lawsuit against him alleging Tunsil defamed Miller’s character.
