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Welcome to NFL Daily, where we're standing by our evaluation of George Pickens in the

draft class in 2022.

I'm Greg Rosenthal.

I'm here with my friend John Ledyard from audibles and analytics. We had a whole plan

for today's show and it was thrown out the window when we got some rare breaking news in May.

George Pickens to the Cowboys and no one I wanted to talk to more than John Ledyard. What's going on,

John? Not too much, man. I appreciate you having me always excited and great to be able to

talk some ball with you, especially a big Steelers trade. Not often that we, well, more often lately

that we get these involving Steelers, wide receivers. So it'll be fun to break it down with you.

Yes, it's been in my head that I overrated Pickens slightly. I had him second that year, I believe, behind Alave. You know, looking at Garrett Wilson

and Drake London, how they've done. That was probably not the right choice, but always held out

hope. And he's had a lot of production. You're talking to a Traileries,

or see, or truth, or so feel the pain. Look, A, Pickens is at least having a good career

relatively, although you never want to get traded

for a future third round pick going into the fourth year of your career.

Here's the trade.

Okay.

George Pickens and a seventh round pick in 20, or sixth round pick in 2027, go to the Cowboys.

They send back a third round pick in next year's draft, that's

26, and a 2027 fifth round pick. That last extra pick was interesting to me. Essentially,

yeah, the Cowboys, all they had to give up was a long trade down from the third to the

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