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Former NFL Player-Turned-Analyst Blames Roethlisberger For Brown Recently Going AWOL

Is Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger to blame for wide receiver Antonio Brown going AWOL a few days before the team’s Sunday regular season finale against the Cincinnati Bengals? Former NFL wide receiver-turned-NFL Network analyst James Jones thinks so.

“And Wednesday in practice, when he [Brown] did practice, I heard he ran the wrong route, Big Ben threw the ball on the ground, said ‘Get him out of here, get somebody else in there’ and that’s when AB was at his boiling point and that’s when he went off,” Jones said on the Wednesday edition of NFL Total Access.