Martavis Bryant is unhappy with his role in the Steelers’ offense, but the team says he’s not going anywhere. On Tuesday, coach Mike Tomlin told reporters that he is “not available” via trade, adding that the team has invested too much in Bryant to bail on him (Twitter link via Ed Bouchette of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette). 
Tomlin’s assertion comes just after Bryant made some very pointed comments to ESPN.com’s Josina Anderson (Facebook link). Bryant says that he hopes to make things work in Pittsburgh, but he also says that he needs to see an uptick in targets right away.
“By the end of whenever the trade deadline is,” Bryant said when asked about his own personal deadline for a change in the offense. “I mean if things don’t get better, than I got to go.”
Bryant says that he wants to have a bigger role in offense, in part, because of his desire to support his family. Bryant will be eligible for free agency following the 2018 season.
“I feel like it’s going to come down to whether we make changes or not, whether they try to include me more or not. If they don’t try to include me more and continue to do the same thing, then I want out period,” Bryant said. “I love my team. I love my brothers. I love being here. I love the city, but I have a family and everything going on now is about taking care of my family.”
Regardless, the Steelers say they’re sticking with Bryant, even though he took the unusual step of calling out sick on Monday with an illness. The tentative plan is for Bryant to return to the Steelers for Wednesday’s meetings and practice, a source tells ESPN.com’s Jeremy Fowler (Twitter link).
Considering his multiple drug suspensions and this type of attitude the Steelers would be lucky to get a late round pick for him. Upset he isn’t getting his… where was he last season? Any idea how he has cost the Steelers by using another high draft pick on a receiver because of his off field issues. So stinking selfish
If he wasn’t talented they would’ve let him go last year. He hasn’t cost the Steelers anything, besides freeing up the underneath and middle of the field with deep threat ability for Brown/Schuster to operate more freely. Don’t act like that’s not the case, so yea, they should reward him with more balls. It’s not Bryant’s fault that Sammie Coates didn’t workout or they wasted a high pick on Dri Archer and it didn’t work out
They don’t use a second round pick if he was reliable. And it’s also not the Steelers fault that Bryant puts himself first time and time again whether off field or on field. Clueless
Blah Blah Blah….the fact of the matter is, if there is NO Bryant, there is NO deep threat and he should get Actually targets, beside the erratic deep ball that Ben can no longer throw. Keep thinking he has no value, but see how it turns out if they trade him.
I can’t agree with that since brown has been killing it without him there the last few years and the bell is way more of a factor to the success of the deep game.
Of Course Brown has been killing it, but Bryant damn sure makes that easier. Even Though Sammie Coates, a couple other guys couldn’t catch a cold, they still received extra attention b/c of deep threat possibilities. Not taking anything away from Brown at all, But Bryant’s presence makes thing easier for all. He should get more targets. But Hey… At least he’s taking the attention away from Ben’s ineptitude in the Red Zone or his inability to run time off the clock b/c he can’t convert on 3rd down and short yardage.
So all the success brown has had while bryant has been suspended, and you think browns success is due to bryant, thats laughable. Maybe if there had been a noticeable dropoff in browns production with bryant out you could make that assertion, but the dropoff never came.
Bryant was a fourth rounder
Never mind I see you’re referring to JuJu
Maybe if he wasn’t spending money on drugs he’d have more for his family. Lol
BigJon! THAT WAS HILARIOUS!!!
Won’t trade him eh? I’ll believe it when I see it.
Ask Mike Wallace how did that work out! I’m not talking about the 60 minutes guy either…
Wallace signed a 5 year 60 million dollar contract after leaving Pittsburgh. Seems like it worked out just fine for him.
EXACTLY!!!