The Bills traded up to nab Josh Allen with the seventh-overall pick of the draft Thursday night, but that doesn’t mean the Wyoming quarterback’s racially insensitive Twitter remarks are forgiven and forgotten.

Allen will have to answer for the racial slurs and offensive remarks posted to, then deleted from, his Twitter account, Bills linebacker and team captain Lorenzo Alexander told the Bills’ radio program.

“He’s gonna have to have a good answer,” Alexander said on the show. “I’ve listened to a couple of interviews, and I think it’s gonna come from the heart and he’ll be fine.”

Alexander said he would be willing to give the Bills’ first-round pick the benefit of the doubt but suggested it might not be so easy with other players in the locker room.

“He’s gonna maybe have to work a little bit harder from certain people in the locker room, but I don’t think it’s an issue because that’s who he was and not who he is,” Alexander said.

Allen became the latest in a long line of players to have their draft stock potentially damaged by late-breaking news. Dolphins draft pick Laremy Tunsil famously slid from a potential No. 1-overall pick in 2016 to 13th after video surfaced of him smoking marijuana from a bong.

The news forced Allen, who had been projected as high as No. 1 or No. 2 in some mock drafts, to go on the defensive to try to save face.

“If I could go back in time, I would never have done this in a heartbeat,” Allen told ESPN on Thursday before the draft. “At the time, I obviously didn’t know how harmful it was and now has become.”

Allen also said he wants to clear the air with his new teammates “as soon as possible,” according to ESPN.

Alexander said Allen’s upbringing in a small town with few minorities may have contributed to the lack of foresight and understanding.

“He grew up — and I’m not making excuses for him; I’m just giving the reality of the matter — growing up in the middle of Fresno, not a lot of people were in his town that he grew up in,” Alexander said of the quarterback who grew up in Firebaugh, Calif., near Fresno. “Small time, I think it’s 1 percent blacks that live in that neighborhood. So you’re just not exposed to the same things.”

Alexander’s own open-mindedness notwithstanding, the Bills captain knows Allen has not heard the end of the matter from his future teammates.

“What I’m gonna do is extend some grace and wait to get to know the kid and see how he develops, and that’s how you got to approach it,” Alexander said. “Now everyone might not have that same approach. I would encourage every teammate in our locker room to do that, but he’s gonna have to at some point, whether he does it in front of the whole team or one-off, somebody’s gonna ask him, ‘Why did you say that?’ or, ‘Why were you quoting those words?’”

When those questions inevitably come, it sounds like Allen will have at least one friend standing by him in the locker room.