Antonio Brown, President of the Pittsburgh Steelers, meets Art Rooney II and hears that it's time to go from the front

The tweet followed an Instagram video released by Brown, which said he was not playing without more money guaranteed and reinforced his desire to be traded by the Steelers.

"If your team wants to win and your team wants a wide and hungry receiver who is the best in the world, someone hit my phone," Brown said using his camera while working on an elliptical machine. "Tell them I do not make promises without hope, I will not even pretend to be this NFL, have you heard."

Brown has no more real guarantees on his current contract. The $ 72.7 million extension that he signed in 2017 for five years includes base salaries of $ 12.625 million, $ 11.3 million and $ 12.5 million. These relatively modest numbers are considered a sales pitch in a trade. Brown will receive an alignment bonus of $ 2.5 million on March 17, but the Steelers could avoid any payment by negotiating or releasing it before that date.

NFL contracts can be reworked. Brown may therefore ask a new team to convert the salaried money into collateral – a strategy the Steelers have used twice with Brown in the past, converting future money into a signing bonus. But the teams hold power since he is under contract. The only real lever of Brown threat to hold on.

Brown will turn 31 in July and the Steelers make Juju Smith-Schuster's receiver a key player in the offense. The team would take $ 21.12 million in dead money by releasing or exchanging Brown, but would offset that money by saving its $ 22.165 million salary cap for 2019.

Brown, who said he'd now like to be nicknamed "Mr. Big Chest," remains unperturbed.

"I think I did everything, what do you think, what's left for me?" Brown said. "Win a Super Bowl? Hey, have to be the right team for that, right? Who wants to smoke? I have a lot of fuel built up. When that fuel gets smoked, hope you're fit, I hope "I'm telling you that I'm ready to do 36 rounds, like a heavyweight, you've heard …

"If your team has money guaranteed, tell them to call me." AB can no longer make any guarantee, so we clarify, I want you to be clear and understand something This is not a game, people – it's not for it's not to be cool – it's strictly to inspire you that no one can determine your destination other than you. "

Sources said the Steelers would be patient with any deal and would want a wise choice in exchange for Brown, who holds an NFL record for six consecutive seasons of 100 shots.