The NFL word received terrible news this morning when it was announced that Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Dwayne Hasksins had tragically passed.
ESPN’s Adam Schefter was the first to report the news, and the manner in which he did so seemed to rub many the wrong way. Rather than just cut to the chase and say we had lost a 24-year-old man much too soon, he decided to lead into the news by briefly referencing Haskins’ struggles during the early part of his NFL career.
Schefter has since deleted the Tweet, but not before the twitterverse got their hands on it:
“Dwayne Haskins, a standout at Ohio State before struggling to catch on with Washington and Pittsburgh in the NFL, died this morning when he got hit by a car in South Florida, per his agent Cedric Saunders. Haskins would have turned 25 years old on May 3.”
Needless to say, that first part of the tweet was not needed. Haskins had just passed after being struck by a vehicle in South Florida, where he was training with fellow Steelers players. We didn’t need to know about his past transgressions right off the bat.
This seemed to be the popular opinion on Twitter, as many let Schefter have it — likely causing him to take down his initial tweet:
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Some even jumped into the comments section of Schefter’s revised Tweet to voice their displeasure:
