Steelers' Alex Highsmith trends for CPR style celebration

Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker Alex Highsmith found himself going viral for the wrong reasons on Sunday after he completed a sack against the Cleveland Browns. 

Demarvin Leal came over to Highsmith and appeared to give him chest compressions as part of the celebration, which was certainly tone deaf given the fact that Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin required CRP and the use of an AED after suffering cardiac arrest last week in Cincinnati. 

And afterward, Highsmith said that he didn't make the connection until after the game and saw that he had been making the rounds on social media. 

"I just don’t want people to think of me that way and think I was doing anything [intentional]," the Steelers linebacker said via the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. "Because I would never, ever, ever, ever want to do that intentionally, and I never, ever would do that."

He added:

"I just want people to know that I have nothing but love for Damar and his family. When that happened, I was shook for a couple days. Me and my wife, we were watching the game, we immediately saw it and intentionally started praying, intentionally prayed for him, his parents, the doctors, the nurses. Because me and her, we’re both followers of Christ. We both believe that prayer is powerful, and I’m just thankful for the miraculous work God has done with Damar’s life. I just want people to know that there was nothing intentional about that. It was never planned. None of that."