Pittsburgh Steelers WR Diontae Johnson spoke with the media Thursday after practice in a press conference following the news that he had agreed to a two-year contract extension to keep him in Pittsburgh through the 2024 season.
When asked about his new contract extension and why he decided to take the deal offered to him now instead of waiting to become an unrestricted free agent in 2023, Diontae Johnson suggested that he put blinders on to what was happening on the outside when it came time to getting a deal done with Pittsburgh.
“No, I don’t want to look now trying to look at ‘You see the numbers’, but I wasn’t trying to look at everybody’s pockets or whatnot,” Johnson said on video from Steelers Live’s Twitter page.