The Antonio Brown saga in Pittsburgh didn’t end on a high note. After years of being the best receiver in the NFL, Brown and the Steelers had an ugly divorce while Brown’s career — despite winning a Super Bowl with the Buccaneers — was never the same again.
In an episode of Speakeasy, talking about how Brandon Aiyuk is forcing his way out of San Francisco, LeSean McCoy dove into some of the details on Brown’s side of things after the 2018 season.
“This is what people don’t know, because I had Drew Rosenhaus as my agent, and he had Drew as his agent,” McCoy said. “He didn’t want to leave Pittsburgh. That’s the real truth. The real truth is he loved Pittsburgh, he never wanted to leave Pittsburgh. And he felt like they didn’t truly value him. They gave (team MVP) to JuJu (Smith-Schuster), which sounds crazy when Antonio Brown’s on your team. And then your Hall of Fame-caliber quarterback, Ben Roethlisberger, who they basically babied for years — even when he declined — and AB, say what you want about him, he always was productive, he always was a hard worker. So all these things are going downhill for him, and now they ask him to leave? He was mad about that.”