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Jon Heath

DeAndre Thompson posts funny tweet after being misidentified as Ejiro Evero

The Denver Broncos lost a key member of their coaching staff earlier this week when defensive coordinator Ejiro Evero left the club in a lateral move to join the Carolina Panthers.

When news of Evero joining the Panthers became official, outlets began running stories using a Getty Images photo of the coordinator from his time in Denver. There was just one problem.

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It wasn’t Evero in the photo.

Getty mistakenly tagged a photo of Broncos intern coach DeAndre Thompson as “Ejiro Evero” in its photo database that is used by countless media outlets. Thompson joined the club last year as the team’s Billy Thompson Coaching Fellow for the 2022 season.

Here’s how he reacted to seeing his photo being used in the place of Evero’s:

The tweet that Thompson was replying to has since been deleted, but here are a few screenshots of other outlets making the same mistake:

Thompson has since joined the Detroit Lions’ coaching staff.

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