The subject of one’s worth so often seems to come down to a balance sheet of what you offer versus what you take away. So long as you contribute more positively than you do negatively, you stand a fair chance of sticking around in a field in which your services are in demand.
We saw this play out spectacularly with the Pittsburgh Steelers and former WR Antonio Brown, who for years cultivated a personality that proved to be false, and which quickly unraveled in ugly fashion in 2019 and beyond.
Nobody is, or at least should be, accusing current Steelers WR George Pickens as being in that realm of destructive behavior, but at the same time, he’s also nowhere near who Brown was on the field.