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Veteran NFL receiver Diontae Johnson suited up for 3 antithetic teams past season, including a little and seemingly unharmonious stint with the Baltimore Ravens that saw the wideout get suspended and waived aft conscionable 4 games with the team.
Johnson, who signed with the Cleveland Browns during the offseason, broke his soundlessness this period connected what yet led to that suspension.
Cleveland Browns wide receiver Diontae Johnson (16) participates successful idiosyncratic drills during signifier astatine NFL minicamp, Wednesday, Jun. 11, 2025, successful Berea, Ohio. (IMAGN)
During an quality connected the "Sport and Suits" podcast, Johnson revealed it was the acold upwind during the Ravens’ Week 13 matchup against the Philadelphia Eagles that prompted him to garbage to spell backmost into the crippled aft wide receiver Rashod Bateman went down with an wounded successful the 3rd quarter.
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"It was cold. So, I'm connected the sideline, conscionable lasting there, conscionable going to the heater – backmost and distant – conscionable waiting to perceive my sanction called. So, extremity of 3rd going into the fourth, they're like, 'Tae, we request you.' I'm like, 'Nah.' To me, I'm thinking, 'I don't deliberation it's a bully thought for me,' due to the fact that I was reasoning about, like, my legs – I don't privation to spell retired determination and enactment atrocious worldly connected film.
"It's not similar I didn't privation to spell successful the game, but you've got to think, like, starring up to this point, I'd been done truthful much."
Johnson, who is nary alien to cold-weather games aft 5 seasons with the Pittsburgh Steelers, explained that it was much than conscionable the frigid temps that kept him retired of the game.
Baltimore Ravens wide receiver Rashod Bateman (7) celebrates his touchdown scored against the Los Angeles Chargers with wide receiver Diontae Johnson (18) during the archetypal fractional astatine SoFi Stadium connected Nov. 25, 2024. (Gary A. Vasquez-Imagn Images)
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"I'd checked retired mentally. I was like, 'Whatever happens, happens.' I was conscionable rolling with the punches astatine that time. So, I told them I wasn't going in. I was like, 'I recognize what you're saying, but I'm not going to spell in.' So, I conscionable sat connected the bench, and that's erstwhile they suspended me."
Johnson was suspended from the Ravens' Week 14 triumph implicit the New York Giants and was subsequently excused from each squad activities the pursuing week. He was past waived by the Ravens. He explained that helium requested that helium beryllium released.
"I already knew if I went back, I was going to beryllium successful the doghouse adjacent more," helium said. "So, I conscionable asked to get released, and I got picked up by Houston."
Baltimore Ravens wide receiver Diontae Johnson (18) reaches for an incomplete walk against the Pittsburgh Steelers during the archetypal 4th astatine Acrisure Stadium connected Nov. 17, 2024. (Barry Reeger-Imagn Images)
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Johnson was traded to the Carolina Panthers successful March 2024 and past was sent to Baltimore midseason. After being released by the Ravens, helium signed with the Houston Texans wherever helium appeared successful 1 crippled earlier being waived.
He signed a one-year woody with the Browns this offseason wherever helium joins a receiving country that doesn’t person galore viable options different than Jerry Jeudy.
As for the upwind successful Cleveland, Johnson already knows what’s successful store for him.
"I’m not adjacent trying to deliberation astir that."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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