Trade speculation continues to grow around Pittsburgh Steelers' wide receiver Diontae Johnson.
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00:00 Do you think Deontay Johnson wants out of Pittsburgh?
00:03 And do you think the Steelers genuinely want to trade this guy as they enter the final
00:08 year of his contract?
00:10 I don't think he wants out of Pittsburgh.
00:12 That is just not the impression I've gotten.
00:15 I think Deontay, I think Deontay believes in this team.
00:20 I think he believes that they can do something here.
00:22 And I think this is the place where he's really built his career.
00:25 And so it feels, feels comfortable.
00:27 I don't, I don't really suspect that he wants out of Pittsburgh.
00:30 I don't, I don't really know if I buy that.
00:32 I think Deontay has a reputation and sometimes that, I don't know, I don't want to say it's
00:40 a reputation for a reason, but there are, you can understand why people think certain
00:45 things about him, but I don't think many of those things are really true.
00:48 Like I don't think he fits into the kind of the, the diva mold that I think people want
00:53 to throw him into.
00:54 Like you said, feel bad that he's got to, you know, kind of watch this off from the
00:58 sidelines.
00:59 Like I'm sure as these rumors come out, it's not, you know, it's not directly, you know,
01:03 Mike Tomlin or Omar Khan talking to people saying, Hey, yeah, we want to trade this guy.
01:07 I'm sure it's a lot of speculations.
01:08 I'm sure it's a lot of, Oh, this could happen.
01:11 And, but that doesn't really change the fact that if you're someone sitting there saying,
01:15 Oh, well, you know, I might get shipped out at a moment's notice and I might find out
01:19 on Twitter or social media or something like that, like that sucks.
01:22 But no, I don't, I don't think he wants out.
01:24 I think the Steelers are open to it.
01:26 I think you listened to what Mike Tomlin and Omar Khan and Art Rooney have said all offseason
01:31 and they're not, I wouldn't call it a desperate position, but it is a it's pivotal off season.
01:38 I mean, it is for everybody, everyone in that organization.
01:42 And this team has really done some soul searching, I think.
01:45 And that has led them to, to the notion that, you know, we've, we've got to explore all
01:50 options.
01:51 We can't close the door on anything if something has the potential to make us better.
01:55 We owe it to ourselves and we owe it to the organization to do consider that.