Antonio Brown is obviously upset with Art Rooney II's announcement on Thursday that the Steelers are open to the possibility of trading the seven time Pro Bowl receiver. Brown posted a confusing response to Rooney's announcement on Thursday evening while also unfollowing the Steelers' Twitter page in the process. He has also continued to ignore phone calls from Rooney as well as from head coach Mike Tomlin.

Despite all of this, Aditi Kinkhabwala is reporting that someone "extremely close" to Brown to her that he does not want to leave the Steelers. Kinkhabwala reported the news during her appearance on The Peter King Podcast.

"He 100% does not want to go right now," Kinkhabwala said. "He is not looking to be traded. He does not want to leave.”

Then why won't he return Rooney or Tomlin's phone calls? That doesn't seem like someone who wants to remain with the team.

"The struggle with Antonio Brown is that he is an unbelievably emotional person," Kinkhabwala said, "and he’s never really been taught how to harness or properly communicate that emotion."

With that in mind, ESPN's Chris Mortensen has said that he believes Rooney and the Steelers will allow more "cool down time" before trying to reach out to Brown again. At that point, there's the possibility that the two sides could mend fences well enough where a trade would no longer seem imminent. There is also another issue with it comes to the complications with bringing Brown back.

"Mike Tomlin’s locker room is very, very, very upset about what this season divulged into," Kinkhabwala said. "The question now is does Mike Tomlin need to make a statement to his locker room, ‘I’m the one in charge, we’re not tolerating any of this anymore.’ That’s the key question right here."

Kinkhabwala reminded King that Tomlin did say during his season-ending press conference that he was going to speak to his team leaders with regard to Brown's future with the team. Kinkhabwala said that, if team captain Maurkice Pouncey (who recently showed his support for Brown on his Instagram account) expresses his support for Brown, that would go a long way in the team possibly deciding not to trade him.

There is also the situation between Brown and Ben Roethlisberger. Kinkhabwala said that Brown was extremely frustrated with Rothlisberger after Big Ben was critical of Le'Veon Bell not being at OTAs, then deciding to skip several OTAs while on a family vacation. Kinkhabwala added that, despite their discord at times, the two work better than any QB -- WR in football and that both players are infinitely better with each other. That is certainly one of the reasons why Brown doesn't want to leave Pittsburgh.

“Antonio Brown does not run clean routes," Kinkhabwala said. "Antonio Brown improvises…he’s out there making stuff up. Ben is out there pump faking and somehow finds him. There is no one, in 10 years of covering the NFL, that improvises the way that these two men do.”

In the end, Steelers' fans just want to know what are the odds of Brown staying versus being traded. Kinkhabwala, who last week thought there was just a five percent chance of Brown remaining with the Steelers, is now giving him much better odds.

"I don’t think there’s greater than a 50 percent chance that he’s back," she said. "I do think it’s more likely that he’s gone.”