Steelers players use Twitter to ask ex-teammates to keep their beef off Twitter
Current and former Pittsburgh Steelers can’t stop making offseason headlines on social media, and several players are hoping to eliminate the media buzz over critical tweets by keeping disputes offline. Over the last month, we’ve seen Antonio Brown feud with JuJu Smith-Schuster and Le’Veon Bell call out Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger.
On late Wednesday night, former Steelers running back Rashard Mendenhall sympathized with Brown, who recently forced a trade in a messy split from the team and sniped at JuJu Smith-Schuster on Twitter. Mendenhall called for critics of Brown to try and see things from his perspective – but things took a turn when Mendenhall called Ben Roethlisberger a “racist quarterback.”
Three hours later, Mendenhall backtracked and tweeted that Roethlisberger is not racist, and he was merely trying to prove a point about making accusations.
On Thursday morning, Ramon Foster responded to Mendenhall by asking all former Steelers to voice their issues in private conversations with those involved instead of making waves on social media.