Fossils fuel debate among J.J. & mate

Nothing divides locker rooms more than dinosaurs. Just ask the Houston Texans. Texans star J.J. Watt took his teammate D.J. Reader to task on Twitter Saturday for not believing in dinosaurs.

“Our lockers have been next to each other for over a year and I just found out @Djread98 doesn’t believe in dinosaurs,” Watt tweeted. “Says fossils are fake.”

While we assume this is all just good-natured fun between teammates, the nose tackle out of Clemson soon found his Twitter feed overflowing with enough material to film his own Jimmy Kimmel “Mean Tweets” segment.

“Look what you started man,” Reader tweeted back at Watt after telling him “don’t knock my theories man.”

“Ay man, I’m not the one who said it!” Watt quickly replied. “I love you either way cuz you’re my boy. I just had to see if anybody had your back. (They don’t).”

One Twitter reply from the pro-dinosaur camp called Reader “uneducated” and a “moron.”

“Uneducated if I’m being polite, complete moron if I’m being honest,” the Dallas man wrote.

“Gotta college education tho if we being real,” responded Reader, who majored in communication studies at Clemson.

Even Shane Lechler found himself in the middle of the social media debate.

“Of course dinosaurs are real ask Shane Lechler,” wrote one Twitter user, poking fun at the Texans’ 40-year-old punter.

In defending his dinosaurs-aren’t-real stance, Reader argued “science isn’t always a absolute truth” and even asked “I suppose aliens exist as well?”

Reader isn’t the only NFLer who doesn’t believe dinosaurs wandered the earth. Rams defensive end William Hayes was outed by teammate Chris Long in 2015.

“He thinks archaeologists place bones underground like a parent would place Easter eggs,” Long said, via ESPN.

—Andy Clayton