The Baltimore Ravens traded for Diontae Johnson last year as an insurance policy to bolster their very thin wide receiving corps. However, when they needed him, Diontae Johnson refused to play.
Why? Because he was cold.
In a pivotal Week 13 matchup against the Eagles, Johnson refused to enter the game because he had “checked out mentally,” he explained on a recent episode of the Sports and Suits podcast.
“I wasn’t getting into like no run plays, no like passing plays,” Johnson said. “No, nothing. It was cold, I’m on the sideline just standing there like just going to the heater back and forth just waiting to hear my name called. End of the third, going into the fourth, they’re like ‘Tay, we need you.’ I’m like, ‘Nah,
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