There are a lot of things that the Pittsburgh Steelers and their players don’t need. Among the many things that are not needed right now is for people to make a big deal about Diontae Johnson participating in a workout with Antonio Brown. Even less needed is having notable sports reporters covering this as though it was something significant.
While it’s true that Brown and Johnson were never teammates—in fact, the Steelers used the third-round pick that they got back in exchange for Brown to draft Johnson—that doesn’t mean they couldn’t have had some sort of prior contact, or developed one later on.