A scuffle between Diontae Johnson and Minkah Fitzpatrick that managed to stay under wraps all week stirred things up Saturday night thanks to ESPN’s Adam Schefter.
Johnson’s frustration started on the sideline with Mike Tomlin and spilled into the locker room following the Steelers’ Week 11 loss to the Browns. Things got heated between Johnson and Fitzpatrick, and it took T.J. Watt and Cam Heyward to cool it down.
Speaking about it after the win, Johnson brushed it off as a typical occurrence between teammates.
“Y’all are outside looking in… that’s my brother out there,” Johnson told Steelers media. “Players are gonna be players, we’re passionate about the game, everybody wanna win. Y’all can’t look at it as, oh, we had an all-out brawl or whatever. It ain’t that. Don’t get it twisted. Players on each and every team talk junk to each other. We squashed it. We won the game, that’s all that matters.”
The media is great at making something out of nothing. That’s what appears happened here. Nothing to see… move along now.
Diontae Johnson says he didn’t see Jaylen Warren’s fumble that so many have said he didn’t try to recover
He also says the media making too much of his post-game remarks to teammates last week (reported by @AdamSchefter ) pic.twitter.com/sZmMVhP2nM
— Chris Adamski (@C_AdamskiTrib) November 26, 2023
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