Pittsburgh Steelers Select Georgia Wide Receiver George Pickens, Adds Tough Playmaker w/Ball Skills

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🗓️ 30 April 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Chris Carter, NFL and NCAAF analyst, hosts the Locked on Steelers podcast. The Pittsburgh Steelers used their 2nd round pick at 52 overall to select Georgia wide receiver George Pickens. a 6-foot-3 playmaker wide receiver with good speed, ball skills and separation ability. Pickens joins the Steelers' wide receiver room with Diontae Johnson and Chase Claypool as a receiver who some project could rise to become WR1 on the Steelers and one of the best in the NFL. But his injury history is a cause for concern, and a big reason why he fell so far in the NFL Draft. CALL INTO THE SHOW AT 412-223-6644 or if international, e-mail your audio message to LOSTEELERSTOPICBAG@GMAIL.COM Follow Chris Carter on Twitter: @CarterCritiques. Theme music is 'Soul Kick' by Ceddy P, and 'Too Easy' by Nerdboy. Both from their label Renaissance Music. Find more from their label here. This show is part of the Locked on Podcast Network. Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! Built Bar Built Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKED15,” and you’ll get 15% off your next order. BetOnline BetOnline.net has you covered this season with more props, odds and lines than ever before. BetOnline – Where The Game Starts! Rock Auto Amazing selection. Reliably low prices. All the parts your car will ever need. Visit RockAuto.com and tell them Locked On sent you. Athletic Greens To make it easy, Athletic Greens is going to give you a FREE 1 year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase. All you have to do is visit athleticgreens.com/NFLNETWORK. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	With the Pittsburgh Steelers' second round pick at 52nd overall, they take Georgia wide receiver, George Pickens.
0:06.6	George Pickens represents this is now the sixth consecutive NFL draft that the Steelers have taken a wide receiver or a tight-in in either second or third round, stepping back to Judy Smith-Suster, selected in the second round of 2017.
0:19.8	But Georgia's wide receiver, George Pickens a really athletic good fit for the pittsburgh
0:25.7	steelers it was not a big secret that the steelers really liked him like tom and looked at him very
0:30.3	closely during george's pro day this is a six foot three one hundred ninety five pound receiver ran a
0:35.9	four four seven at the at at the NFL scouting compound.
0:39.1	Good speed, especially for that size, had a really good broad jump of over 100 inches.
0:44.4	This is a guy who, or excuse me, 10 feet, so 120 inches.
0:48.4	But this is a guy who in my book is a guy who immediately jumps in and it's going to be a factor for this
0:54.9	offense day one he's going to be plugged in right with dionte johnson and chase claypool you
0:59.5	now have officially your wide receiver three and heck he might even develop into being better than
1:05.0	that if you look at george pickens tape if you look at all the readouts on him this is a guy who's
1:09.6	very good with his ball skills.
1:11.3	He will go up and get the football. He will win battles for the football. He will find ways to make
1:15.5	very tough catches at several different angles. He finds a way to get open late in his routes.
1:20.4	He's very, very good at being physical at the start of his routes. You see people try to jam him.
1:26.4	He'll find a way to brush their hands off.
1:28.3	He'll find a way to beat the press. He also is a very astute blocker, loves to get physical,
1:34.6	isn't afraid of getting down and dirty. These are all things the Steelers love in their wide receivers.
1:39.9	And this is now a guy that's going to add to the wide receiver room immediately. And now he joins Kenny Pickett for being back-to-back offensive picks.
1:47.7	Crazy enough for the second year in a row to start an NFL draft.
1:51.6	Last year, it was Najee Harris and Pat Pratt, Pat Fremuth.
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