Is there a chance that disgruntled wide receiver Antonio Brown could play for the Pittsburgh Steelers again? Former Steelers linebacker James Harrison seems to think so.
“Yeah, it's always a possibility,” Harrison told TMZ Sports when asked if he thought Brown could return to the Steelers next season. “Nothing's 100 percent … Everything's an option except for releasing him, so that being the case, there's still a chance that he could be there.”
Brown's relationship with the Steelers hasn't been great for quite some time, and it reached a boiling point in the week leading up to the season finale when he got into a heated dispute with Ben Roethlisberger and apparently threw a football at the quarterback. Brown then refused to practice, complained of knee pain but refused to go for an MRI and went AWOL on the team before being consequently benched by head coach Mike Tomlin ahead of Pittsburgh's Week 17 game against the Cincinnati Bengals.
There appeared to be some momentum building toward a possible reconciliation between the two sides recently, but reports now say that Brown's relationship with the Steelers has only gotten worse since the end of the season, with the 31-year-old ignoring phone calls from owner Art Rooney II and telling teammates that he never intends to play for the team again.
Brown hauled in 104 receptions for 1,297 yards and a league-leading 15 touchdowns on the season en route to his sixth straight Pro Bowl appearance. He has made seven Pro Bowls overall since being drafted by the Steelers in 2010.
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