Broad 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 via the tip of the 2024 season.
George Pickens explains what went mistaken 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 most effective of me a number of instances as a result of I’m all the time driving that line. That’s simply who I’m. I’ve tried to study from it and develop whereas nonetheless being ME.”
With Pittsburgh, Pickens grew to become recognized 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 have 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,” reminiscent of 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 endurance with Pickens. Nevertheless, in Friday’s piece, Pickens instructed he nonetheless has a great relationship with Tomlin.
“Now the media in Pittsburgh? I admit ….I used to be trolling y’all a little bit 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 advised me, ‘Simply hold 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 have been just lately benched for Dallas’ first offensive sequence 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 concerning 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 greatest. Everyone wins. I swear, there’s a better energy guiding all of this. I used to be meant to get this recent 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 chance to show his price to the 4-5-1 Cowboys after they host the Philadelphia Eagles (8-2) this Sunday.
