Steelers linebacker Devin Bush stirred up controversy on Twitter about a month ago when he retweeted a picture of a cat falling to its apparent death.
Bush also tweeted several other bizarre statements in the offseason, prompting defensive team captain Cam Heyward to tell him to "calm his ass down."
"He's a grown-up, he likes to play young," Heyward said back in July. "I don't have to say a lot. I think everybody is expecting something different. Devin is a heck of a football player. He can be a kid at times. We will ring him back in when we have to."
Speaking to reporters on Monday said his teammates talked to him to "reach out."
"It wasn't nothing crazy, just kinda checking up on me, how I'm doing and that was that," said Bush.
Asked if he thinks he made fans mad for his tweets, Bush said, "I don't even know if they're real fans to be honest with you."
Bush also doesn't remember anyone talking to him on the team about his Twitter, adding, "It's my Twitter so they can't control it."
But as The PM Team's Andrew Fillipponi points out, the Steeler do pay attention to what players post on social media.
"The Steelers traded Santonio Holmes right after he told a fan to "kill urself" on Twitter. -The Steelers benched Martavis Bryant after he called out teammates on Instagram. They care," said Poni.
