Bryant stirring up more trouble for Steelers

Some year, Martavis Bryant might go through an entire NFL season without voluntarily making himself a distracting presence on his team by continually making headlines of the wrong kind through delinquent actions.

This year is not that year.

It’s hard to fathom the ways the fourth-year wide receiver again is estranging himself from his Pittsburgh Steelers teammates.

He’s not even halfway into his first season back with the Steelers after the NFL suspended him for all of 2016 without pay for his second major violation of the league’s substance-abuse policy. A year earlier, Bryant sat out the first four games as NFL penance for his first violation.

You’d think this season he’d appreciate his reinstatement by shutting up, keeping his head down, shutting up, working hard at every practice, shutting up, being as productive on the field as possible and, as much as anything, convincing everyone he’s grateful for every moment back. And shutting up.

Nope, other than he still works diligently at every practice, reports say.

He told reporters Wednesday the club relegated him to scout-team duty this week and won’t play him Sunday in Detroit, as punishment for his Instagram post Sunday that denigrated teammate JuJu SmithSchuster.

Thing is, Bryant can be an amazing talent. Despite his substanceabuse issues, despite claims by his reps two years ago that he battles depression and immaturity, and despite his hesitance on the field to make tough catches in certain parts of the field, the 25-year-old has caught 15 touchdown passes in just 28 career games, 12 of which he has started.

That’s superstar-type production, if in a self-caused small sample size.