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JuJu Smith-Schuster Issues Challenge as Drake Plays Fortnite with Ninja

Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster wants to play video games with Drake.

Drake alerted his Twitter followers that he was locked in a game of Fortnite with esports legend Tyler "Ninja" Blevins:

After seeing Drake's tweet, Smith-Schuster let the three-time Grammy winner know he was getting online:

Fortnite's battle royale game has become a pop-culture phenomenon with more than 10 million subscribers in its first two weeks of availability last October.

Smith-Schuster is an avid gamer, even noting the biggest adjustment to professional football was not staying up so late playing video games.