Did Josh Allen Ever Apologize for His Racist Tweets?

The past always finds a way to haunt and with digital footprints being a thing, everyone now is more cautious than ever. However, one person who was not cautious about his digital footprint a while back is Josh Allen. When the former first-round pick was younger, he had rolled out some really problematic tweets.

The tweets we are referring to included racial slurs and offensive language, as reported by Yahoo! Sports. Additionally, the timing of their emergence could not have been more dreadful. The world got to know about Allen’s tweets from his time as a teenager just hours before the 2018 NFL Draft. Many thought that the tweets would affect his selection, but that didn’t happen. In fact, the Bills ended up selecting him as the seventh overall in the draft.

Did Josh Allen take responsibility for his actions?

When his problematic tweets came out in front of the world, the star QB was severely bashed online. In his defense, while talking to ESPN’s Chris Mortensen, Josh had claimed, “If I could go back in time, I would never have done this in a heartbeat. At the time, I obviously didn’t know how harmful it was and now has become”

“I hope you know and others know I’m not the type of person I was at 14 and 15 that I tweeted so recklessly. … I don’t want that to be the impression of who I am because that is not me, I apologize for what I did,” he had added.

The tweets that were sent in 2012 and 2013 were wiped from his account. And to answer the burning fan question, yes, while talking to ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith a while back, Allen had again apologized for his mistake and had also stated that he was “young and dumb” when he wrote those tweets.

Josh Allen’s problematic tweets were eventually removed from his account

Adam Schefter, an NFL Insider, revealed that when the star QB’s account was getting vetted, his offensive tweets were removed. Even the QB himself had gone through his account to recheck everything. “I had even typed in keywords to see if anything I had tweeted popped up that I needed to clean up, but nothing like these came up or I just missed them,” Allen had said. “My agency went over any past social media, and these didn’t come up after I did the search.” He also claimed that some messages might have been written by his friends as they occasionally exchanged phones to send tweets.

Even though this is a thing of the past, it keeps popping up time and again. Thankfully, Allen has come a long way since that controversy took center stage and is now loved by all of America.