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Texas QB Sam Ehlinger to Twitter critics in The Athletic profile: 'I don't really care what homeboy with six followers has to say'

Texas junior quarterback Sam Ehlinger isn't backing down from critics of his Twitter usage.

In a story recently published in The Athletic by national college football reporter Stewart Mandel, Ehlinger shed some light on some of his recent controversial Twitter episodes.

"I'm always going to voice my opinion," Ehlinger told The Athletic. "I think that people take it into stronger consideration just because my platform has grown. But I'm not one to say, OK, now I have this platform and now I'm going to use the voice. I will always voice my opinion."

Ehlinger continued: "I don't really necessarily look at responses on Twitter.