Twitter was slightly aflame Tuesday night when a random grant writing consultancy firm cited a source that Keenan Lewis was signing with the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Keenan Lewis signs with the Steelers according to sources. Welcome back — M&M Consultants (@MM_consultants) August 24, 2016

The author of the account seemed especially confident in his/her information. As of the time of publication, no signing had been announced by the team and Lewis had taken down from Instagram a video of Lewis walking to the tram area of Pittsburgh International Airport. He left up a picture of him seemingly on a plane announcing his good fortune of leaving a New Orleans area code and being en route to a Pittsburgh area code.

We’ll leave it to the reader to determine whether that’s Lewis’s way of saying he’s intending to sign with the Steelers, or simply and literally announcing his current travel plans.

If you can’t trust a grant writing consultant with a typo in the first line of its About section, who can you trust, right?

The important issue here is what Lewis could bring to a perilously thin cornerbacks position among the Steelers. Will Gay and Ross Cockrell are the unchallenged starters but with rookie Artie Burns (quad) and Senquez Golson (foot) having missed all or most of training camp (Golson could return by November, according to Tribune-Review reporter Ralph N. Paulk), it would seem the Steelers could use some depth.

Is Lewis the right player, though?

It seems like a Catch-22. If Lewis is healthy — he missed a good chunk of the Saints’ training camp with an oblique strain — considering his age and experience, it seems reasonable to expect he could command something more than a one-year contract. If he’s not healthy, well, he’s not healthy, and the Steelers would be compounding their current problem.

The Steelers signed CB Will Gay to a three-year, $7.5 million contract this offseason, and is scheduled to make $1.8 million in 2016. The Steelers just drafted Burns and Golson — regardless of the fact neither have even dressed for a regular season game — with top-60 picks over the last two years. Neither of those facts suggest the Steelers would be interested in signing Lewis to a multi-year deal or a one-year deal for more than $1.8 million.

It seems much more likely the Steelers are doing their due diligence with Lewis, and if the scenario exists where Lewis can’t find the right deal for him, the two sides might be able to work something out.

Injuries crushed Lewis’s 2015 season, and while he played in all 16 of the Saints’ games in 2014, he wasn’t all that impressive. The argument can be made he’s in decline and the injuries support that.

He only played in 103 snaps last season, managing two pass break-ups, including this one against the Eagles.

Ironically, Lewis’s best play of the 2015 season saw Eagles receiver Riley Cooper sustain an injury. But he played the ball well, showing good fluidity in his hips, the area he would later injure, costing him the season.

His film doesn’t reflect many of these kinds of plays. Generally speaking, he struggled to get to the ball. This opportunity was dropped, literally, against the Giants.

He covered his target well enough but missed the chance to notch a takeaway on the deflected pass. Really, these two examples are the only times Lewis touched the ball on a recorded play.

He has a few bad ones worth mentioning as well.

Desean Jackson is among the fastest players in the league, and any defensive back covering him in man but failing to get a jam is likely going to be chasing him from behind.

Every cornerback will get beat eventually. The best corners will rebound from it as it rarely happens. Lewis struggled to remain on the field last year. That’s much more of his issue as opposed to getting beat off the line on one play.

That doesn’t mean his most recent film suggests he’s only a streak of health away from defending 23 passes, the way he did in 2012 when he was in Pittsburgh. If one were to venture a guess, the conclusion might be reached he played much of the year injured, and teams knew it.

The Giants attempted to get Reuben Randle in space when Eli Manning identified the Saints were employing man coverage. A more leading throw likely would have given Randle the chance to turn the corner and get to the end zone, but Lewis was still able to track him down from across the field and prevent the touchdown.

Perhaps the most connected grant-writing consultation firm in the NFL is correct and the Steelers are on the verge of bringing Lewis back. Maybe Lewis was just hoping something could be worked out with his former team and he’s leaving Pittsburgh this morning, destination one of another five teams interested in his services. Since Lewis has barely practiced in 2016 has yet to appear in a preseason game, it’s really up in the air what expectations for him this year are going to be.

What we do know is he shares the same characteristics of many of the Steelers’ cornerbacks currently, and that might not be a good thing.