Mike Tomlin was ready to go from George Pickens.
On Wednesday, the Pittsburgh steelers exchanged the Large George Pickens receiver and a sixth round choice in 2027 at Dallas Cowboys in exchange for a third round choice in 2026 and a fifth round in 2027. Pickens led the Steelers in the reception yards during the 2024 season, and the team did Recovery of 2025. Despite these factors, Pittsburgh took the step. Now we may know why.
The initiate of the Steelers Mark Kaboly reports that the team’s coach was ready to leave Pickens. After a multitude of problems over the years, Tomlin has finally been finished.
Kaboly wrote on the passage to X saying: “Don’t be mistaken, Tomlin – who has done everything possible in the past to defend Pickens – is the one who decided that the Pickens rehabilitation project had to end a year earlier.”
Kaboly: A Steelers trade that had no meaning and all the meaning in the world
Correspondent Mark Kaboly / Steelers
For @PatmcafeeshowPittsburgh – When Mike Tomlin feels that it is time to move on, you would better believe that it is time to move on.
He quickly came to the point where the … pic.twitter.com/z5ctcmzvvo
– Mark Kaboly (@markkaboly) May 7, 2025
Pickens would not have asked for director general of trade and the Steelers, Omar Khan, did not make the decision, Tomlin did.
The talented 24 -year -old is around a contractual year and could have become even more a distraction for Pittsburgh. The team still pursues the quarter-Arrière Aaron Rodgers, and there is a fairly strong probability that the two would have faced with their personality.
The Steelers landed DK METCALF this offseason, so the role of Pickens would have been reduced anyway. He was no longer as important for the team and Tomlin was ready to put him in the past.
