I know it sounds totally counter intuitive and on the surface, doesn’t make much sense. You can rightly say that about the entire Le’Veon Bell saga this year.
But it appears in Bell’s mind, sitting out guarantees he’ll remain in Pittsburgh. For the rest of this year, anyway.
Bell was reportedly to show up during the bye week. On paper, it made sense. Literally. Showing up meant getting paid for doing essentially nothing, collecting a bye week paycheck and then finishing out the season starting this week and Sunday against the Cleveland Browns.