Antonio Brown is making headlines for all the wrong reasons. On Monday, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported that Brown missed Sunday's win over the Bengals after he threw a football in the direction of quarterback Ben Roethlisberger. Brown, who didn't finish Wednesday's practice, then missed the remainder of the team's Week 17 practices while also ignoring calls from teammates as well as from team president Art Rooney II. Brown then left Pittsburgh's game at halftime after he expected to play despite missing an entire week of practice. The Steelers won the game without him but were unable to qualify for the playoffs after the Baltimore Ravens held on to defeat the Cleveland Browns.

On Tuesday, Jason La Canfora of CBS Sports reported that Brown has requested a trade while adding that Brown "has issues" with Big Ben and head coach Mike Tomlin. Specifically, La Canfora is reported that Brown feels that Tomlin is "too aligned" with the Steelers' franchise quarterback.

And now, there's this:

AB no longer follows the Steelers on Instagram. #Steelers — Blitzburgh (@Steel_Curtain4) January 1, 2019

While we're not sure if Brown has actually requested a trade, it's clear that he as at odds with the organization. On Tuesday, Big Ben confirmed that Brown has not returned any of his attempts to contact him since last Thursday morning. Roethlisberger said that other teammates are having the same issue with regard to trying to get into contact with Brown.

"I’m blessed to play with him," Roethlisberger said of Brown while adding that he was unaware of any incident between him or Brown during last Wednesday's practice. "I consider him one of my closer friends…AB and I have been together for a long time and I owe so much of my success to him. So I consider him a really close friend on the team. I think the bigger thing is that I know some of the guys that I’ve talked to are just trying to reach out to him and haven’t heard back. So I think that’s what’s frustrating to a lot of guys."

In 2017, Brown signed a four-year, $68 million extension that kept him signed with the Steelers through the 2021 season. It's highly unlikely the Steelers would indeed trade Brown, although they did trade Super Bowl XLIII Santonio Holmes after several off-field issues. But Holmes is not Brown, who led the NFL with 15 touchdown receptions in 2018. But every franchise has a limit with regard to what they will tolerate. If Brown did blow off Pittsburgh's final practices of the 2018 season, it's hard to image his teammates will simply welcome him back with open arms when the team begins spring practices.

While time does heal most wounds, it's clear that Brown and the Steelers have some fences to mend during the early portions of the 2019 offseason.