Discharge Behavior of a Battery
When you place a resistor across a battery to discharge it the voltage of the battery will decrease as the discharge proceeds. This translates directly to the voltage across the resistor and with a decreasing voltage the current through the resistor will also decrease. You will not achieve a constant current load on the battery by discharging with a simple resistor.

It is possible to discharge a battery at constant current (as long as the battery can supply at least the constant current load level) but it requires a special circuit that uses a BJT or MOSFET as the load across the battery. The drive signal to the Load device is controlled by an opamp that regulates the signal to the level needed to keep the load current constant. Load current in such circuit is typically monitored as the voltage drop across a low value current sense resistor.