T.J. Watt’s decision not to report to minicamp surprised some reporters, but not those inside of the Pittsburgh Steelers organization. Although it is uncommon for a player in a contract dispute to skip mandatory minicamp, they seemed to expect this. That is, at least, according to Brooke Pryor, who spoke to Adam Schein recently on SiriusXM.
“I was not surprised that he was not at minicamp”, the ESPN reporter said of Watt. “No one in the building was surprised that he was not at minicamp. If there is an element of surprise here, it dates back to earlier this offseason when I was having conversations with people in the building who kind of said, ‘We thought this T.