Branson Wright Tweeted Cardale Jones Would Enter NFL Draft, Got 239 Retweets (and Counting)

By Sam Allard on Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 5:04 pm

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Branson Wright, a member of the PD's crackerjack Browns' beat, had a rough afternoon on Twitter.

He was covering the Cardale Jones pres conference out at the Tedd Ginn Academy. There, Jones announced that he'd be foregoing the NFL draft and returning to OSU.

Though Wright saw fit to correct his announcement that the presser would be held at 3 p.m. (not 2 p.m.) — and ultimately pushed back to 4 p.m.! — he didn't exactly issue a correction when he erroneously Tweeted that Jones would be entering the draft.

That Tweet has already been widely disseminated, 239 retweets at last count.

Here's Wright's inglorious (but also hilarious) timeline:

#CardaleJones will announce his decision at 2 p.m. at the Ginn Academy. #OSU #NFL #WillHeStay
— Branson Wright (@BransonWright) January 15, 2015

CORRECTION ... #CardaleJones will announce his decision at 3 p.m. at the Ginn Academy. #OSU #NFL #WillHeStay
— Branson Wright (@BransonWright) January 15, 2015

More anticipation. #Cleveland School District moves #CardaleJones announcement to 4 p.m. at Ginn Academy. #NFL #OSU #WhatWillJonesDo
— Branson Wright (@BransonWright) January 15, 2015

#CardaleJones will announce he will enter #NFLDraft #OSU
— Branson Wright (@BransonWright) January 15, 2015

#CardaleJones will return to school.
— Branson Wright (@BransonWright) January 15, 2015

Will he stay?

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Sam Allard is the Senior Writer at Scene, in which capacity he covers politics and power and writes about movies when time permits. He's a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and the NEOMFA at Cleveland State. Prior to joining Scene, he was encamped in Sarajevo, Bosnia, on an...

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