George Pickens provided plenty of highlights, but nearly as many controversies for Steelers

George Pickens provided plenty of highlights, but nearly as many controversies for Steelers

The George Pickens Experience in Pittsburgh has come and gone. In the simplest of terms, the Steelers either failed to coach his maturity concerns out...

Steelers' Loss of Pickens: What Might Have Been

PHOTO BY JARED WICKERHAM/PITTSBURGH STEELERS There are often layers to trades that go well beyond stats and contract status. There are subsequent moves made that provide context and clarity in the wake of trades. And so it is, presumably, with George Pickens, who was just shipped off to Dallas. But no matter how much of a problem Pickens’ often-cited immaturity had become and no matter who the Steelers eventually acquire to help fill the massive…

‘Pittsburgh Knows What They Got Rid Of’: Louis Riddick Says George Pickens’ Talent Wasn’t Enough To Tolerate Antics

The Pittsburgh Steelers trading fourth-year wide receiver George Pickens wasn’t much of a surprise, considering he was entering the final year of his rookie contract, wasn’t going to get an extension from the Steelers after they paid DK Metcalf big money, and likely was going to be a bit of a problem at times in […]