NFLPA prez blasts Goodell for Tunsil comments

There’s a lot of words to describe what happened to Laremy Tunsil during the first round of the NFL Draft on Thursday, but “exciting” probably isn’t one of them, and it’s definitely not the word that NFLPA president Eric Winston would’ve used to describe things.

“Exciting” was the word used by NFL commissioner Roger Goodell to describe Tunsil’s harrowing experience on Thursday night and that description did not sit well with Winston.

“I have been stewing over what happened last night and what was said [by Goodell],” Winston wrote in a series of tweets. “This is what I think: Last night everyone saw a young man’s dream turn into a nightmare. The mistakes he made in the past were released out there to millions with an intent to harm him.”

If you somehow missed the Tunsil story on Thursday: His Twitter account was hacked just minutes before the draft was set to begin in Chicago. During the hack, someone posted a video that showed someone who was definitely Tunsil appearing to smoke out of a bong attached to a gas mask.

Tunsil’s Instagram account was also hacked. Tunsil’s draft …

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