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Jameis Winston's New Crab Legs Story Leaves Jimbo Fisher, FSU in Awkward Spot

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Jameis Winston's brand new story for how he came to cited for shoplifting crab legs a year ago might now become an NCAA compliance issue for Florida State University (FSU).

According to ESPN, Winston recently met with Michigan head football Jim Harbaugh for pre-draft preparation. That interaction was filmed for the network's show, "Draft Academy."

During the segment where they focused on interviews, Harbaugh asked Winston about the incident last April in which he was spotted on a surveillance camera walking out of a grocery store without paying for $32 worth of crab legs and crawfish.

"Well, a week before, it was my buddy's birthday and we had got a cake. And we met a dude that worked inside Publix and he said, 'Hey, anytime you come in here, I got you.' So that day we just walked out and he hooked us up with that," Winston said. "And when I came in to get crab legs, I did the same thing and he just gave them to me and I walked out. And someone from inside the store had told the security that I didn't pay for them. And that's how the whole thing started."

Furthermore, former college and NFL football player Marcellus Wiley, who hosts "Sports Nation" on ESPN, said at the time on Twitter Winston took the fall for "teammates and higher ups who knew of this Publix taking care of players for years." South Florida Sun Sentinel writer Omar Kelly corrected Wiley, stating such an understanding has been in place for "decades."

Jimbo Fisher, head football coach at FSU, told reporters on an ACC teleconference Wednesday the school had already looked into it. He also he believed it was "an isolated incident."

Regardless, Winston's new version of events is a different story than the one he told at the time, the Washington Post noted. Fisher even backed Winston's claim that his QB accidentally bypassed the checkout station.

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