Large receiver George Pickens appears to like being a member of the Dallas Cowboys after they acquired him from the Pittsburgh Steelers this spring.
Pickens penned an essay in The Players’ Tribune on Friday about his time with the Steelers, which lasted from the second spherical of the 2022 NFL Draft by way of the top of the 2024 season.
George Pickens explains what went flawed with Steelers
“I used to be nonetheless a child,” Pickens wrote. “I made some errors. I’ll personal that. I let my feelings get the very best of me a couple of instances as a result of I’m all the time using that line. That’s simply who I’m. I’ve tried to be taught from it and develop whereas nonetheless being ME.”
With Pittsburgh, Pickens grew to become identified for looking displeased and for emotional outbursts throughout video games that appeared to stem from an absence of targets. After he was traded to the Cowboys, reports revealed that the Steelers had been “fed up with” the 24-year-old’s antics, which included a “litany of violations.”
Such violations reportedly included Pickens showing up late for conferences and for “different issues,” equivalent to Pittsburgh’s Christmas Day contest in opposition to the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs final December.
The notion exists that Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin had run out of persistence with Pickens. Nonetheless, in Friday’s piece, Pickens steered he nonetheless has a superb relationship with Tomlin.
“Now the media in Pittsburgh? I admit ….I used to be trolling y’all just a little bit. I apologize! However I don’t have a nasty phrase to say about Pittsburgh,” Pickens continued. “I can name up Coach T proper now, and we’d have an actual dialog. What I respect about him most is he all the time informed me, ‘Simply preserve being you, George.’ It simply wasn’t the long-term match for the place my journey was headed, and that’s OK.”
Will the Cowboys be a long-term match for Pickens?
Pickens and fellow huge receiver CeeDee Lamb had been not too long ago benched for Dallas’ first offensive collection versus the Las Vegas Raiders on Monday evening after they missed Sunday’s curfew. Within the Cowboys’ win over the Raiders, Pickens tallied 9 receptions for 144 yards and a landing.
The fourth-year professional within the final year of his contract has since said he’d “like to” stick with the Cowboys past this season.
“They did proper by me,” Pickens added in regards to the Steelers. “They despatched me to the proper spot in Dallas. What extra would you like me to say? There’s no drama, bro. No headlines to put in writing. They’re doing issues their approach up there, and I’m down right here in Dallas with CeeDee and [quarterback Dak Prescott] doing what I do finest. All people wins. I swear, there’s a better energy guiding all of this. I used to be meant to get this contemporary begin in Dallas.”
Over his first 10 video games with Dallas, Pickens recorded 58 receptions for 908 yards and 7 touchdowns. He’ll subsequent have a possibility to show his price to the 4-5-1 Cowboys after they host the Philadelphia Eagles (8-2) this Sunday.
