Why did Jameis Winston delete the crab legs photo?

Jameis Winston deleted the controversial crab legs picture on Friday morning, but why?

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Thursday night during the first round of the 2015 NFL Draft all of the talk was around Jameis Winston, and deservedly so. To get the night started, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers made him the No. 1 overall pick and their presumable franchise quarterback for the future.

Unfortunately, though, after the draft was over, the talk was still surrounding Winston and not necessarily in a good way. To celebrate his drafting by the Buccaneers, Winston posted a picture to his Instagram account of he sitting behind a nice plate of crab legs, which as we all know was a reference to his infamous Publix incident.

Well on Friday morning there were some that woke up not at all shocked to see that the picture had been removed.

But why was it removed? Well, as you might imagine, his new team made him do it…

Context Winston crab legs pic. Began when a Capt. from the Deadliest Catch handed a king crab to Winston to auction for charity 3 wks ago.
— Rick Stroud (@NFLSTROUD) May 1, 2015

Winston took the gesture in self-deprecating good nature. On Thurs., same Capt. provided 25 LBs of crab for his draft party.
— Rick Stroud (@NFLSTROUD) May 1, 2015

The pic of Winston Thurs wasn't taken to make light of the crab legs incident at Publix that resulted in a civil citation. However...
— Rick Stroud (@NFLSTROUD) May 1, 2015

Once #Bucs became aware of the Instagram pic of Winston, they encouraged having it removed from his account.
— Rick Stroud (@NFLSTROUD) May 1, 2015

Now while the picture itself was rather harmless, in the grand scheme of things, it was probably the right move for the Bucs to have him take it down for the time being.

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