HOW DO YOU GRADE PICKENS TRADE TO DALLAS

Steelvision · May 17, 2025 at 6:12 PM

I wonder what grade AR would give…

AskQuestionsLater · May 17, 2025 at 7:55 PM

Blast Furnace said: ↑

I don't even understand where that's coming from," Tomlin said in October 2022 when asked about Pickens' playing style deterring other teams in the predraft process. "This guy is doing everything that we ask him to. He's playing good ball. A lot of people have incidents in their college background. I'm certainly not going to hold that against him. We did our due diligence. We were completely comfortable with his character. He has displayed that since he's been here. So, I somewhat resent that."

Good article.

If that quote from Tomlin is even remotely coming from the heart, he should be removed from the draft process completely, Khan should just give him some marbles and send him into the corner.
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Given how that was a direct quote from Tomlin, Pittsburgh now officially seems to have an issue drafting WRs and keeping them long term.

Either they are not good enough in the form of Markus Wheaton, Sammie Coates or James Washington or they crash out in the form of Antonio Brown, Martavis Bryant, Diontae Johnson and now George Pickens.

As @HeinzMustard correctly pointed out a while back; the only WRs Tomlin drafted that went on to have successful careers were, oddly enough, the "Young Money Crew" in Emmanuel Sanders, Mike Wallace and of course, AB (his Super Bowl win anyways).

However, I also do not fault Tomlin for 100% of this. Kevin Colbert also had a hand in this as well. Takes two to tango and Khan's first Official Draft wasn't until 2023. That isn't to say he didn't oppose these players all together but factoring him in would be factoring in a lot of assumptions.

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