The odd story of the fake Emeka Egbuka X account posting about the veracity of CTE takes another turn.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, an X account seemingly belonging to Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver Emeka Egbuka posted the question, \u201cIs CTE even real?\u201d That set off a ton of negative responses as it went viral, and was about to put the second-year NFL player in very hot water. However, shortly after the post went up, the\u00a0Buccaneers Communications account quoted it and wrote, \u201cThe below account is neither owned nor operated by Emeka Egbuka<\/a>. It is in no way affiliated with Emeka or the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.\u201d<\/p>\n Compounding the strangeness was the fact that the account had been operating\u00a0normally, as if it were the NFL player\u2019s actual X account. It also has more than 7,500 followers and, as Pro Football Talk noted<\/a>, it was followed by the gold-checked account of the NFL Players Association. It\u2019s also followed by the NFL Films account and several NFL media members.<\/p>\n The account has since been suspended<\/a> by X.<\/p>\n Adding to all of that intrigue is the revelation by Front Office Sports\u2019 Ryan Glasspiegel<\/a> that the official Buccaneers X account had tagged this fake Egbuka account nearly 60 times in posts<\/a> since they drafted him out of Ohio State last April. The team was still tagging that account as recently as January 3<\/a>, and according to an FOS source, they simply got \u201cduped.\u201d<\/p>\n Longtime Buccaneers beat writer Greg Auman said he was suspicious of the account<\/a>, though the banality of the content made it \u201cOdd, but harmless.\u201d That is, until Wednesday\u2019s viral CTE tweet, which could have had severe consequences on Egbuka\u2019s reputation (and may still, since it\u2019s likely some who saw it still think it was him).<\/p>\n Egbuka seems to stick to Instagram<\/a> when it comes to social media use, and that\u2019s probably for the best. Given the lack of guardrails and free-for-all mentality of X<\/a>, it\u2019s a wonder this kind of thing doesn\u2019t happen more often.<\/p>\n \t