The Pittsburgh Steelers traded wide receiver Diontae Johnson to the Carolina Panthers for cornerback Donte Jackson and a pick swap in the 2024 NFL Draft.
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00:00 Your reaction to Deontay headed to the NFC?
00:04 What are they South, the NFC South and Carolina?
00:06 Yeah, yeah.
00:08 The best division football.
00:10 They I.
00:11 So I mean, we sat on this podcast and I said to myself, like I said to everyone,
00:18 don't trade Deontay like this doesn't make you any better.
00:21 And then I found myself last night trying to defend the trade somehow.
00:26 Like I thought it was fine.
00:27 You know, like you, you don't lose Deontay Johnson and or a player of Deontay
00:32 Johnson's caliber.
00:32 And I think feel really good about it.
00:35 But I mean, this was about as good as I feel like the Sealers could have hoped for.
00:39 You need a corner.
00:40 You got a guy who has, I think, started every game that he has been healthy for
00:45 as a as a as a professional player.
00:48 He's got 14 picks over the course of his career.
00:50 Like I don't really hate the return for it.
00:53 And, you know, if you if you believe the reports that Deontay himself demanded
00:58 this trade, that this was his idea to to want to get out of Pittsburgh a little bit,
01:02 then I don't know, the return almost doesn't matter at that point.
01:05 At that point, you just need to get someone who doesn't want to be there
01:08 to be here, out of here.
01:11 And, you know, it's unfortunate to lose a guy Deontay's caliber.
01:14 But like you I think you alluded to, this is a completely deep class
01:18 of free agent wide receivers and draftable wide receivers.
01:22 Like this is this if you were going to lose Deontay Johnson,
01:25 if you were going to trade him away, this is the perfect time to do it.
01:28 There were too many options.
01:30 And, you know, yeah, I like I don't I don't think this made the Steelers better,
01:35 but it seemed like a move that they needed to make.