Not long after TMZ reported that it was a drag race between Seahawks running backs Fred Jackson and Marshawn Lynch that caused Jackson to wreck his car outside the team facility Tuesday, denials started making their way through the Twitterverse.
Per Tim Graham of the Buffalo News, who knows Jackson well from the veteran’s time with the Bills, Jackson is fine and the initial report from TMZ is wrong. Per Jason LaCanfora of CBS Sports, Jackson was going too fast and misjudged “a very tight turn.”
PFT confirmed that Jackson is fine and the incident was the result of an accident, not a drag race. Jackson said the same in a tweet later Tuesday night.
Jackson hit a stop sign -- there’s proof of that -- but taking a turn too fast is a long way from drag racing. LaCanfora had a separate tweet acknowledging that Lynch was one of several players around.
Seahawks defensive end Cliff Avril sent a couple of tweets challenging that there was a drag race.
“The facts aren’t what they are making them,” Avril wrote.
