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BREAKING: The Pittsburgh Steelers are finalizing a trade to send wide receiver George Pickens to the Dallas Cowboys in exchange for future draft picks, sources tell @diannarussini.bsky.social.
🔗: www.nytimes.com/athletic/631…
— The Athletic (@theathletic.bsky.social) May 7, 2025 at 7:29 AM
The Pittsburgh Steelers traded wide receiver George Pickens to the Dallas Cowboys for a 2026 third-round pick and a 2027 fifth-rounder to Pittsburgh, while the Steelers will also include a 2027 sixth-round pick.
Pittsburgh Steelers Grade: C
Multiple times throughout last season, Pittsburgh Steelers coach, Mike Tomlin, said George Pickens needed to grow up, including after a Cincinnati Bengals game where Pickens received two unsportsmanlike conduct calls.
Pickens had strange drops at the highest-leverage moments, evaporating under the lights. So, after trading for DK Metcalf from the Seahawks, Pittsburgh already has its new WR1. They no longer have to coddle their mentally weak baby boy, George.
Best Case Scenario
Rookie QB out of Ohio State, Will Howard, emerges from training camp as the QB1—beating out Mason Rudolph and earning the respect of the locker, and develops instant chemistry with DK Metcalf and Robert Woods—erasing the memory of last year’s silly Justin Fields/Russell Wilson experiment.
Worst Case Scenario
Aaron Rodgers.
Removing George Pickens’s odd energy from the locker room matters not if Aaron Rodgers is coming with a flash drive full of Youtube docs he downloaded about the Free Masons that he demands everyone to watch “before they judge him” or whatever.
The second you see a report indicating the Steelers have signed Aaron Rodgers, nothing they did during the offseason is worth grading. Rodgers is a geriatric sociopath with a victim complex and a fear of physical contact.
The worst case scenario for Pittsburgh is Aaron Rodgers.
Dallas Cowboys Grade: A-
Best Case Scenario
Last season, George Pickens had 59 catches for 900 yards and 3 touchdowns. Sure, those aren’t ideal numbers for your star receiver but next to CeeDee Lamb, those numbers are better than what Jalen Tolbert did with Dallas in 2024.
George Pickens is an overqualified no. 2 receiver, capable of explosive plays down the field that will now be opened up as CeeDee Lamb swallows the defense’s attention for Pickens to sneak behind for some Dak Prescott nukes in the endzone.
Plus, like TBS, in the Cowboys organization, characters are welcomed. Dallas owner, Jerry Jones, will put his elderly, decaying, segregationist arms around Pickens and embrace him between temper tantrums.
The Cowboys are the home for the unwell.
Worst Case Scenario
George Pickens is one bad day away from being Kadarius Toney. A George Pickens crash out is coming one day. Give him a few weeks of drops or fumbles or whatever and Pickens is driving his car 200 mph into the team facility.
Pickens is not long for the NFL.
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