{"id":811796,"date":"2026-03-14T11:23:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T11:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/811796\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T11:23:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T11:23:37","slug":"emeka-egbuka-breaks-silence-on-x-account-controversy-that-isnt-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/811796\/","title":{"rendered":"Emeka Egbuka Breaks Silence On X Account Controversy, That Isn&#8217;t Me!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260312_cdab2547d2464f2bab32cbb1202af7f1\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:7b6b4b93-e9c0-4756-9e34-5544511c2dc3\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/cdab2547d2464f2bab32cbb1202af7f1_md.jpg\" alt=\"Emeka-Egbuka-main-getty-1\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The sports world is finally hearing from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/emeka-egbuka\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Emeka Egbuka<\/a> after an X account with his name shared a viral post questioning whether CTE is real &#8230; and he&#8217;s confirming what the Tampa Buccaneers said earlier this week &#8212; he had nothing to do with it!!<\/p>\n<p>Egbuka posted a statement on his Instagram Friday afternoon, clearing the air about his affiliation with the account.<\/p>\n<p>      See way too many legit people on here following this account. This is not Emeka Egbuka.<\/p>\n<p>Block this account \u2b07\ufe0f\u2b07\ufe0f\u2b07\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CbiOBZ78ab\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/CbiOBZ78ab<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QUFVWkeafC\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/QUFVWkeafC<\/a><br \/>\n              <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealisticBuck\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">@RealisticBuck<\/a>\n          <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I haven&#8217;t had twitter since high school,&#8221; Egbuka wrote. &#8220;That account on X isn&#8217;t me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Some people believed the team was just covering for him by saying it wasn&#8217;t actually Egbuka &#8212; as the Bucs tagged it numerous times over the course of his rookie season.<\/p>\n<p>They weren&#8217;t the only ones apparently duped &#8212; several notable names were among the thousands who followed the account &#8230; including the National Football League Players Association, NFL Films and multiple media members.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260312_b56d41bd347144a892e7a649d2f6c7e9\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:7b6b4b93-e9c0-4756-9e34-5544511c2dc3\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/b56d41bd347144a892e7a649d2f6c7e9_md.jpg\" alt=\"Emeka-Egbuka-sub-getty-2\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>From what we saw before the account was pulled &#8230; it was mostly dormant for years, with very few original posts and reposts. It had only made three posts in 2026, all since March 9 \u2026 raising the possibility that someone recently gained control of the account.<\/p>\n<p>A strange saga has seemingly reached an end &#8230; but we appreciate the mystery behind it all!<\/p>\n<p>      <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The sports world is finally hearing from Emeka Egbuka after an X account with his name shared a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":808333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[7,88,9,266,4429],"class_list":{"0":"post-811796","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-sports-news","12":"tag-tmz-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116227280636754170","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=811796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/808333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}