Former Steeler receiver Emmanuel Sanders returns to town Sunday as a standout receiver with the Denver Broncos.

PITTSBURGH — The “Young Money Crew” spent three years growing up together in a corner of the Pittsburgh Steelers locker room, a trio of wide receivers with talent and attitude to burn.

Too much, it turns out, to stick together.

Mike Wallace split for millions in Miami. Emmanuel Sanders traded Ben Roethlisberger for Peyton Manning. Antonio Brown is the only one remaining, the contract extension he signed in 2012 now looking like one of the NFL’s best bargains.

Brown and Sanders will share a field for the first time in two years on Sunday when the Steelers (8-5) host the Broncos (10-3), a reunion that’s not exactly leaving Brown wistful of what might have been if business hadn’t gotten in the way.

“We all had growth in that time, obviously in that time that’s where we were at,” Brown said. “We’re at different times now.”

Then again, Brown can afford to not get caught up in what might have been.

Wallace is toiling in relative anonymity in Minnesota and Sanders is trying to develop a rapport with Brock Osweiler as Manning recuperates from a series of injuries.

Meanwhile, Brown is an All-Pro and the unquestioned leader of perhaps the best receiving group in football along with Markus Wheaton and Martavis Bryant.

While Brown — who’s second in the NFL in receptions (100) and yards receiving (1,397) — isn’t one for comparisons, there are similarities between the group Brown grew up with and the one he now leads.

Bryant, like Wallace, is the field stretcher, although one that comes in a considerably bigger package at 6-foot-4. Wheaton, like Sanders, lacks Bryant’s quickness or Brown’s seemingly video-game inspired moves but is plenty capable of breaking out when defenses scramble to keep his teammates in check.

Wheaton’s 18.8 yards per reception rank third in the league and he had a career-best 201 yards against the Legion of Boom in a loss to the Seahawks last month.

“We have a competitive, positive group, young and exciting similar to what we had when Mike Wallace and Emmanuel were here,” Brown said.

The numbers are near mirror images of each other. During their peak years together in 2011 and 2012, Brown, Wallace and Sanders caught a combined 26 touchdowns and averaged 14.35 yards per catch. Brown, Bryant and Wheaton have combined for 39 scores and 14.67 yards per grab since the start of the 2014 season.

“I see, me, Mike and AB (in them) and the Young Money Crew has taken over again and the whole world has taken notice,” Sanders said. “Those guys have got speed over there.”

The kind of speed that made it impossible for the Steelers to keep the original crew together.