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X rolled out a genuinely useful idea for NFL fans this week: visit your favorite team’s profile and instantly find the accounts belonging to everyone on its roster. There is just one fairly important flaw in the system, which is that X occasionally appears to have found the right player’s name and then stopped doing research.
The new feature lets users browse players directly from all 32 NFL team accounts and even follow an entire roster at once. Awful Announcing found several mistakes Wednesday, including the Minnesota Vikings’ page directing fans searching for Justin Jefferson toward a completely different football player named Justin Jefferson.
X Found A Justin Jefferson, Just Not That Justin Jefferson
This is an especially difficult mistake to miss when the actual Justin Jefferson is one of the most famous receivers on Earth.
Clicking Jefferson’s name from the Vikings roster did not lead to the All-Pro receiver’s account. Instead, it reportedly sent users to an account belonging to another Justin Jefferson who played football at Pearl River Community College and had not posted since 2023.
There is actually another active NFL player named Justin Jefferson too. The former Alabama linebacker was selected by Cleveland in the fifth round of the 2026 NFL Draft after beginning his college career at Pearl River.
So there are multiple football-playing Justin Jeffersons available. X just managed to avoid the one who actually plays for Minnesota.
Jordan Addison received similar treatment. The Vikings receiver’s roster link directed users to an essentially abandoned account belonging to someone who had grabbed his name rather than Addison himself.
That is not ideal when the entire purpose of the feature is removing the work involved in figuring out which account belongs to which player.
The problems were not limited to Minnesota.
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Baltimore’s roster produced an even better mix-up.
Fans clicking Lamar Jackson from the Ravens page were sent to the account of Lamar Jackson, the former NFL defensive back who played for teams including the Jets, Bears, and Falcons.
Technically, X found an NFL player named Lamar Jackson. The actual Ravens quarterback is a two-time MVP, one of the league’s most recognizable stars and, importantly, the Lamar Jackson currently employed by Baltimore.
This is basically what would happen if Spotify built a Beatles page and accidentally linked Ringo Starr to a dentist in Ohio named Ringo Starr.
The feature itself is a pretty logical addition for X. The platform remains one of the main places NFL fans follow breaking news, player reactions and game-day discussion, and collecting every team’s roster accounts in one place could make following players considerably easier.
It just requires correctly identifying those players first.
X will presumably clean up the mismatches as they are discovered, and some already may be corrected as the feature rolls out. But the first version has created an incredible new experience for random people who happen to share names with professional athletes.