You may or may not have noticed or paid attention to this during the game—I didn’t—but the post-play reaction following Pittsburgh Steelers outside linebacker Alex Highsmith’s final sack on Sunday drew some negative attention.
After bringing down Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson yet again, the third-year veteran lay on the ground on his back for a short moment. Rookie teammate DeMarvin Leal came over to him and mimicked giving him chest compressions.
This was seen, not unreasonably, as being in bad taste given that not even a week earlier an NFL player nearly lost his life on the field and had to be given CPR to be revived after his heart stopped.