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Bengals' Iosivas: Online abuse 'got in my head'
Key takeaways
- CINCINNATI -- Bengals wide receiver Andrei Iosivas opened up about some of the extreme online abuse he suffered last season.
- "I feel like last year I was in my head a little bit," Iosivas said.
- "So it got in my head a little bit when people -- you know, when your DMs [direct messages] are flooded with people telling you to kill yourself."
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CINCINNATI -- Bengals wide receiver Andrei Iosivas opened up about some of the extreme online abuse he suffered last season.
"I feel like last year I was in my head a little bit," Iosivas said. "I had those drops in those games and people were telling me to kill myself and all that kind of stuff. I never had that kind of stuff happen to me before.
"So it got in my head a little bit when people -- you know, when your DMs [direct messages] are flooded with people telling you to kill yourself."
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