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You may have seen some talk around social media and sports sites like ours over the weekend about some beef between Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster and his former teammate Antonio Brown, now a member of the Oakland Raiders after he forced a trade from the Steelers.
If so, and if you’ve wondered what was up and how it all happened from the start, don’t be alarmed. As always, we’re here to help with a breakdown of the what’s going on.
How did this all start?
I’d say this might have begun on March 10. That’s when Smith-Schuster tweeted out this photo of himself catching a touchdown captioned with “I’m ready.” That came after the Brown trade news dropped … and the photo has Brown watching from the background:
Did Brown see that as a slight?
There didn’t seem to be anything Brown after that tweet. But perhaps Brown might have seen that as a shot fired.
So where’s the beef?
Later in March as Brown and ex-Steeler Le’Veon Bell took shots at Pittsburgh QB Ben Roethlisberger, Smith-Schuster came to the quarterback’s defense:
Brown appeared to reply with this tweet that everyone took to be pointed at Smith-Schuster:
Was Smith-Schuster mad?
No. He told TMZ Sports, “That’s my guy” about Brown a few days later. And that looked like it was it. But then it wasn’t.
On Sunday, while responding to a fan on Twitter, Brown tweeted this when the die-hard declared Smith-Schuster was the Steelers’ 2018 MVP. He’s referring to Smith-Schuster’s Week 16 fumble that ended up in a Steelers’ loss:
Hoo boy.
Yeah. So much for any positive feelings. Hours after Brown tweeted “Keep your emotions off the internet,” Smith-Schuster mocked him and responded to the shot taken at him:
Was that the end of it?
No. Here’s the last word (for now) from Smith-Schuster:
