Diontae Johnson was a star for the Pittsburgh Steelers not all that long ago.
But after a whirlwind 2024 season, it doesn’t look like his 2025 is off to much better of a start.
Johnson has spent the summer with the Cleveland Browns, but he’s projected to miss the 53-man roster by The Athletic’s Zac Jackson.
Jackson writes that Johnson “did not have a strong summer.”
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Jackson expects the Browns to keep five wide receivers.
Those five: Jerry Jeudy, Cedric Tillman, Jamari Thrash, Isaiah Bond, Gage Larvadain.
The recent signing of Bond may have spelled the end for Johnson.
Johnson spent the first five years of his NFL career with the Steelers. In that time, he caught at least 50 passes in every season, and he had a total of 391 catches for 4,363 yards and 25 TDs.
In 2024, he went to Carolina to begin the year. He had 30 catches in seven games.
Then, he was moved to Baltimore, and he had one catch across four games.
From there, it was Houston, with two catches in a single game.
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As a free agent this offseason, Johnson picked the Browns, a place with a relatively wide open depth chart. But if he ends up squeaking onto the roster, it’ll be just barely.
At 29 years old, it’s surprising that Johnson has fallen off like this, and maybe another team can still unlock his abilities once again.
But it doesn’t look like it’ll be the Browns.
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