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PITTSBURGH -- When JuJu Smith-Schuster says activity is "lit all the time," he can prove it in wattage.
A bank about-face turns his bedchamber into a Las Vegas club. Reds and dejection and greens axle from the abject of a cavernous mattress.
“I can move it up while I’m watching TV, arena video games, accepting a abundant time and aloof chilling,” Smith-Schuster said. “JuJu’s consistently lit. Chef Ju's consistently lit.”
These aren’t two altered personalities as abundant as a collaborative experience, which is on affectation on a apathetic Tuesday, a Pittsburgh Steelers off day.
The NFL’s youngest amateur is far from off.
Over the advance of 75 annual in a two-bedroom accommodation on Pittsburgh’s South Side, Smith-Schuster bounces from couch to kitchen to alley like a Jack Russell terrier.
"Chef Ju" is abstinent and focused as he cooks stir-fry for lunch. He wears abounding comestible apparel purchased at a bounded bazaar and agilely follows online affable videos for able abstracts and garlic-slicing techniques.
But JuJu (real name John) consistently seems to arise for a affection adjustment: busy dancing mid-stir, a abrupt Kool-Aid appetite and affair "Call of Duty" sessions from a bean bag abutting to a checkered Gushers absolute and a blimp Minion he called “It’s Lit.”
The Steelers amateur receiver is 20 activity on 12 activity on 30, depending on the moment, or who you ask.
“Hyper,” Steelers active aback James Conner said.
“Dances all the time,” bound end Jesse James said.
“Might advance things a little too far at times,” quarterback Josh Dobbs said with a smile.
All three answer the aforementioned qualifier, though: complete football player.
A glimpse into Smith-Schuster’s activity reveals how he marries active abandon with a assignment belief that alveolate him into the Steelers’ starting aperture receiver atom afore his 21st birthday, which isn’t until Nov. 22.
Cooking with 'Chef Ju'
The multitasking is backbreaking and requires at atomic two abstruse accessories at a time.
Smith-Schuster is answer his affable affair to ESPN, while he’s live-streaming the aforementioned affair on his Instagram account. Every Tuesday, he cooks a new basin for an admirers of up to 10,000.
Travis Scott advance usually blast in the accomplishments -- “He’s consistently befitting it lit,” JuJu says -- but today he doesn’t charge music to dance.
“Whipping in the kitchen. Whipping in the kitchen. Yeah!” Smith-Schuster says as he sways from larboard to appropriate while active broccoli, snow peas and carrots.
A aftereffect accomplishment to activity booze in a basin turns into an clothing of James Harden's and Ezekiel Elliott's acclaimed "eatin'" celebrations.
Dancing comes in after-effects of about eight seconds, until he bolts to the active allowance to tend to his "Call of Duty" gaming session. A angle can affix him with up to 400 players at a time. Being afterwards an cyberbanking accessory for best than a few annual feels “weird,” he says.
A pre-meal bind arrives.
“I try to comedy fast because I’m hungry," Smith-Schuster says. "I appetite to eat, but also, I appetite to do the video game."
The best option: Do both. Smith-Schuster plays, pauses, again active aback to the kitchen. Meanwhile, a disco brawl that he bought at Spencer’s sets the active allowance vibe.
No microwaves allowed. Smith-Schuster buys all the beginning capacity Tuesday morning and cooks from scratch, acid craven with attention and marinating with care. The abstruse additive is a can of amber purchased at Giant Eagle for $3.99.
Smith-Schuster asks the camera if anyone has acceptable chicken-slicing advice. His manager, who’s captivation his phone, eventually notices addition advancement from a fan watching the stream: “Wife me.”
Smith-Schuster consistently admired the Samoan-style affable of his mother, Sammy, who he says kept her then-teenage son on basin duty, “hand-wash only.”
Once he larboard USC as a 20-year-old inferior (he started elementary academy a year early), Smith-Schuster accomplished affable is not alone a acceptable accomplishment for a distinct adolescent adult, but a new way to band with mom. He usually FaceTimes her from the abundance for tips.
In the bend of the hallway, a dry-erase lath bears a message: “I adulation you son. See you soon.”
Cleaning with JuJu
Smith-Schuster, who accurately added the aftermost allotment of his name in account of his stepfather, says up to 25 ancestors associates lived in his adolescence home (he can name anybody too). This bureaucracy larboard him afterwards his own room. Operating in baby spaces appropriate cleanliness.
His accommodation whiteboard has bright charwoman instructions, red brand for the sections in all caps:
-TAKE OUT TRASH
-Clean active room
-Dishes
-Go to academy for food
-Rest of laundry
-FOLD CLOTHES
-Put up mirror
The tidy tendencies arise afterwards an ad-lib Nerf gun cutting session. The pellets fly while Smith-Schuster wears a Steelers helmet and tells the camera that those who pay the bills “can do whatever you want.”
Minutes later, he’s on the arena acrimonious up pellets.
“My locker allowance is like that, bed is like that -- accumulate it clean,” Smith-Schuster said.
Cleaning calls to apperception a Smith-Schuster locker-room prank. A few weeks back, Smith-Schuster crept up on a assemblage of Steelers, two of whom -- linebacker Ryan Shazier and Dobbs -- don’t accept beard because of alopecia.
“Who’s cleaner?” asked Smith-Schuster as he filmed their active with his buzz camera.
“You’re so childish,” Shazier said in the moment.
A few weeks later, Shazier said, “I anticipation it was funny,”
Dobbs said the moment played out like the meme of Spider-Man pointing at Spider-Man.
“He does added things sometimes. That’s aloof him,” Dobbs said. “He’s a funny guy, and he studies his base off.”
Game over, let's eat
Smith-Schuster drops the appearance ambassador and announces "Chef Ju" is headed aback to the kitchen.
The amoroso aerial is about to booty flight.
He pours a gallon of baptize into a decanter, again boring pulls out a alembic of Kool-Aid Tropical Punch and embraces it like a adolescence friend.
It array of was. He didn’t like water, so Kool-Aid was a compromise.
“This is the best affair going,” Smith-Schuster says.
While mixing, he opens the abdomen to advertise 13 boxes of Gushers (he doesn’t eat them every day, he swears), again proudly tastes the accomplished product.
“Boy, that’s some acceptable craven now,” Smith-Schuster said. “That looks so good, huh?”
He takes his bowl and alcohol to the active room, because it’s time to bold while he eats. Gaming a few hours a day is a nice absolution from the bullwork of football, Smith-Schuster says.
On the couch is area he can flavor the moment as a amateur receiver on a contender, bistro acceptable aliment while overlooking the Pittsburgh skyline. He’s a few blocks from the Steelers facility, to which he rides a bike (he’s alive on his driver's license, with active advice from larboard accouterment Alejandro Villanueva).
Smith-Schuster has been accepted to bear big open-field hits, but the JuJu acquaintance off the acreage couldn’t be beneath threatening.
Or beneath lit.
“I’m consistently happy, accepting fun, aloof accepting a abundant time,” Smith-Schuster says.
