Former Alabama linebacker Mack Wilson took to Twitter in order to celebrate the Cleveland Browns’ win over the Pittsburgh Steelers, and NFL fans are not too happy about it.
In a game where the biggest highlight was Myles Garrett hitting Steelers quarterback Mason Rudolph in the head with his own helmet, tensions were high.
Wilson tweeted out a photo of him standing next to Steelers wide receiver Juju Smith-Schuster, who was laying on the ground in pain – Smith-Schuster would not return to the game after later being placed in concussion protocol.
Shortly after receiving some backlash, Wilson deleted the tweet and issues this apology:
We just trying to earn our respect in this league. It’s never our intentions to hurt anyone.
— Mack Wilson (@5mackwilson1) November 15, 2019
Here’s what Twitter is saying about the post:
Mack Wilson proud of JuJu injury pic.twitter.com/csAj1KFgio
— Heart of NFL (@HeartofNFL) November 15, 2019
Some fans believe Wilson was happy about the Steelers’ star-receiver being injured.
Mack wilson posted this. Not right at all. pic.twitter.com/xZGQ4R2pDX
— Tim Hughes (@thughes0409) November 15, 2019
Others just outright condemned the tweet.
This is what Mack Wilson's now-deleted tweet said. Completely classless.
Credit to @DJ2LastNames for screenshotting this. pic.twitter.com/lI6nKQPzif
— Nick Farabaugh (@FarabaughFB) November 15, 2019
NFL fans were quick to call out Wilson for the post.
This was deleted by Cleveland linebacker Mack Wilson but yikes pic.twitter.com/tnMsMtiISe
— Football Analysis (@FBallAnalysis) November 15, 2019
‘Yikes’ is probably an appropriate word to use here.
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