The life of a professional athlete isn’t always easy, especially for starting quarterbacks. They are constantly in the limelight, grilled about every aspect of their lives both on and off the field, and they’re constantly subjected to social media trolls and nay-sayers looking to get under their skin.
No, most of them don’t have financial worries, but the pressure and scrutiny they face are very real.
As such, phone numbers are guarded like top-secret classified information. No one wants random fans sending messages to them, heckling them, or calling them.
Yet that’s exactly what happened to Tennessee Titans quarterback Will Levis.
.@Titans QB @will_levis said he’s getting a new phone number after his previous one was leaked. He got a lot of texts over the last few days. pic.twitter.com/MqBsskMBIl
— Jim Wyatt (@jwyattsports) September 18, 2024
“Yeah, I guess, I think I’m actually going today to get a new phone number. I don’t know how my number got out there to the fans, but I got a lot of texts,” Levis said. “So that will be nice to shut that part of life behind me, and I haven’t opened socials in the last couple weeks, and, yeah, I just think that’s the healthiest way to go about it.
“I don’t want to, or care to see any of the things people say about me. And I’m just going to keep chugging along regardless of what they say. But it sucks that the world is the way that it is, and I’m looking forward to having some privacy.”
Levis hasn’t played well to start the 2024 season, and the Titans have lost consecutive games largely because of mistakes he made during the games. That still doesn’t warrant someone sharing his phone number and people sending him messages he has no business being subjected to.
Let’s be real, Levis is every bit as hard on himself as the fans and coaching staff are on him. He doesn’t need the added rhetoric from fans adding to it, so it’s good he’s getting a new number. Hopefully, no one shares it this time.