Leaked NFL Free Agent Contract During ‘Call of Duty’ Online Game?

NFL news can really come from anywhere. Even from an online video game between complete strangers.

In what has to be one of the most random potential news leaks in recent memory, Reddit user ProbationOfficer2035 posted a blind nugget to Reddit’s NFL thread on Saturday about what he believed to be a trade. . It wasn’t until the user got information about something in progress – it was How? ‘Or’ What he or she got the nugget.

In that case? In a bit of wild improbability, it came from an open microphone during a “Call of Duty” online game called “Warzone,” which features an option to randomly team up with strangers and play together virtually. The Reddit user here (who is a self-proclaimed Green Bay Packers fan) just found himself teaming up with Chicago Bears offensive lineman Rashaad Coward. Well, if you’ve ever played “Call of Duty” online, you often get random teammates whose open microphones can virtually pick up. all said in their room. Including conversations from people who don’t even play the game.

As described by ProbationOfficer2035…

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Then at noon on Monday, NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport reported that the Steelers are expected to sign Coward:

On Saturday night, Coward himself tweeted this:

Then on Sunday, one of Coward’s agents, Brian Adkins, tweeted a follow-up aimed at Coward’s wife (who is an avid gamer with her own Twitch channel) who appears to confirm that something went well in a game. random “Call of Duty”:

Coward was a restricted free agent who did not receive an offer from the Bears. And now it looks like he’s going to sign with the Steelers. At least one thing is certain: The ears of the NFL rumor mill are everywhere, including the other side of that gaming microphone.

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