PITTSBURGH — Diontae Johnson is playing a game of chicken with the Steelers, hoping his decision to not take part in team drills at training camp will result in a new contract before the start of the regular season. He saw what happened last year when outside linebacker T.J. Watt did the same thing and received the largest contract ever awarded in franchise history. He thinks the same thing will happen with him.
He could be dead wrong.
Johnson's actions are what is known as false causality — an assumption that one event causes the other. In this instance, it might also be known as a mistake.
