ESPN Gets Blasted For Putting Up Bizarre Graphic That Revealed Tee Higgins' Mother Battled Drug Addiction For 16 Years During NFL Draft

Many fans have noticed that this year’s NFL draft on ESPN has been delving into the depressing aspect of player family backgrounds much more than previous years.

What is with the nfl talking about every kids dead parent. Like every draft pick it’s oh his dad drowned in a pool and oh his mom died of a blood clot. Its really depressing to see

— Mike (@MaddoggMike24) April 25, 2020

Apparently, ESPN producers draft creativity consisted of depressing back stories of every pick and/or their family’s sport history (his sister played high school basketball).

— Jeff Marcon (@inkennerbra) April 25, 2020

Is it a requirement ESPN has to hit you with a horribly depressing tidbit for every player drafted? #NFLDraft

— Kevin Lamp (@KLamp6) April 25, 2020

I mean I'm not sure why I need to know that a draftee's mother contracted the West Nile Virus in 2012 https://t.co/UeCaMS6P9p pic.twitter.com/d5Mz98cv8D

— gifdsports (@gifdsports) April 25, 2020

ESPN may have gone too far with their player backgrounds when they put up a graphic to detail Tee Higgins’ past which included a tidbit about his mother battling drug addiction for 16 years.

@espn this is disgusting on your part, Tee Higgins is enjoying his entrance to the NFL. And y’all have to announce his personal family business, by putting his moms drug addiction battle. Y’all should be ashamed of yourselves. pic.twitter.com/0oO1LbVZGr

— Roy Resendez (@royresendez32) April 24, 2020

had this mans mama's drug addiction up their like a stat pic.twitter.com/iuW8qQ9bSK

— I Miss Conecuh (@BluntStatement) April 24, 2020

“Get To Know Tee Higgins!”

ESPN: Mom can’t lay off the crack. We’ll see how that affects his career. pic.twitter.com/OE0RkF0gew

— Kyle (@KyleWooderboys) April 24, 2020

ESPN Really felt the need to bring up the 16 year drug addiction of Tee Higgins mother.
Night #2 of @espn tainting the best night of these kids lives by bringing up family deaths & past traumatic issues. Ridiculous. #NFLDraft2020 pic.twitter.com/UZtnSseuKv

— Mitchell T (@BillyHoyle31) April 25, 2020

ESPN Gets Blasted For Putting Up Bizarre Graphic That Revealed Tee Higgins’ Mother Battled Drug Addiction For 16 Years During NFL Draft