Could you imagine the cryptic tweets Steve Young would send if social media existed when he was backing up Joe Montana? Or the videos Garrison Hearst would’ve posted to his Instagram story as he realized the writing on the wall that Kevin Barlow would be his successor?
We overreact to everything a player posts on social media these days and act like Sherlock Holmes to connect the dots. On Monday morning, 49ers quarterback Trey Lance posted the following:
Trey Lance shared this on his IG. pic.twitter.com/Ruy3XKnmtL
— Ryan G Hensley (@ryanghensley) June 5, 2023
For the following 24 hours, “we” did our best to decipher what Trey meant.