Auburn DE Byron Cowart carries the weight of hype that only the most elite college football prospects complete understand.

Coming out of Seffner, Fla. as the nation’s top defensive prospect in the 2015 signing class, expectations were sky high for his freshman season.

His production was virtually non-existent, accruing just six total tackles in 12 games of action.

He sometimes took his frustrations out on Twitter, seemingly lashing out against the Auburn coaching staff.

It was a sign of immaturity amidst poor performance, and it wasn’t a good look for Cowart.

So what did he do?

Cowart deleted his Twitter account during spring practice in what he hopes is a part of the next step in his maturation process.

According to the Montgomery Advertiser, Cowart said it was simply a “business decision.”

“It was just being a kid, making mistakes,” Cowart said. “From a business standpoint, just delete the whole Twitter thing and stay away from it.”

Cowart also understands that his Twitter page becomes relatively irrelevant if he’s living up to the enormous expectations for his career that go with being a five-star highlighted recruit.

“From my own expectations (the 2015 season) wasn’t what I thought I was going to do,” Cowart said. “It comes with the territory. Some guys peak different than other guys, I’m just trying to get to my peak.”

Cowart had this to say earlier in the spring about the decision:

“It was difficult at first,” Cowart said on April 2 about his tweets being analyzed by fans and media. “But (Garner) just told me the best way to cancel that is just stay off Twitter overall. When you are at that level of popularity or whatever you have to be careful what you tweet, just don’t tweet anything at all, just take the whole Twitter thing down and that’s what I did.”

It seems like a smart decision for an enormously talented pass rusher that has the capability to be one of the best in the league before his time at Auburn is done.