Steelers WR JuJu Smith-Schuster to Stop ‘Distraction’ of Dancing on Logos

One week after saying he wouldn’t cease dancing on opposing groups’ midfield logos earlier than video games for movies to be posted on his TikTok account, Steelers vast receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster has modified his tune, saying that he doesn’t need to be a distraction to his workforce.

Head coach Mike Tomlin stated on Tuesday that he would have a dialog with the 24-year-old vast receiver concerning the follow of performing a dance on the midfield emblem earlier than pregame warmups on sport days, one thing Smith-Schuster has been doing all season.

But it surely’s turn into a speaking level in current weeks as members of the Buffalo Payments and Cincinnati Bengals pointed towards Smith-Schuster’s dancing as further motivation for his or her video games, each of which had been misplaced by the Steelers.

“I used to be dancing once we had been undefeated,” Smith-Schuster stated. “I used to be dancing once we misplaced our three video games. Now, I’m not going to alter the one who I’m. I feel it’s attending to the purpose the place my teammates are being requested this query, my coach is being ask this query. I noticed it extra as no intention of disrespect and simply extra intentions of my followers. I’m huge on social media, the optimistic and, doing stuff like that, you get the optimistic and detrimental. So, for the betterment of myself and my teammates, I’m gonna cease dancing on logos.”

Smith-Schuster emphasised that he felt his dancing turning into a speaking level within the media and questions being requested to his teammates and coaches about it was the inflection level for him altering his thoughts concerning the follow.


“I don’t need to be a distraction to anyone, my workforce, or, the opposite workforce,” he stated. “Like I stated, it’s only for the betterment [of the team]. If it’s attending to the purpose the place you guys are asking my teammates and coaches, there’s no level.”

That was the message that Smith-Schuster stated was handed to him from Tomlin, as nicely.

“With Coach Tomlin the dialog what we had was, you recognize, similar to what we stated, you recognize, the betterment of the workforce,” Smith-Schuster stated. “You realize, once I heard that he was getting requested this query, I heard my teammates had been getting requested this query, I felt like, I don’t need to be distraction I feel, what I must do, what I can do to assist my offense is simply to be extra optimistic and to place factors on the board.”