Buccaneers deny encouraging Jameis Winston to delete crab legs photo
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Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Jameis Winston obviously had crab legs on ice in preparation for his first-overall selection during Thursday's NFL draft.
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Upon learning he'd posted the Instagram photo, the Buccaneers encouraged Winston to remove it from his account, according to Rick Stroud of the Tampa Bay Times. He has since done so, but ESPN's Ed Werder reports that the Bucs deny having anything to do with the decision:
#Bucs deny they encouraged, ordered, advised, demanded, suggested or otherwise influenced Jameis Winston to delete crab-leg Twitter photo.
— Ed Werder (@Edwerderespn) May 1, 2015
The photo is a not-so-subtle hat tip to an incident in which Winston shoplifted crab legs from a Publix in 2014.