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The Steelers dumped wide receiver, George Pickens, to the Cowboys for draft picks.

And I'm not surprised.

I think that there was a lot of chatter leading up to the draft that they were trying to do this or they might do this.

And then I thought, are they going to draft a wide receiver, which they didn't? And then George Pickens goes to the Cowboys.

You look at the Pittsburgh side of this and you go, what's this mean for Aaron Rogers? If anything, he's going to say, well, I got D.K. Metcalf and a couple of guys that

I'm not familiar with. Got a pretty good tight end. Got rid of Najee Harris. Maybe it's

Mason Rudolph's team. But this guy would know better than I. It's Jerry Duleck, joining us again.

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Radio Network. How surprised were you that this move took place?

Well, obviously I wasn't shocked because I knew they were going to move on him at some point,

Dan, they were never going to give George Pickens a second

contract. That was never going to happen. And I never thought they would just let him walk. When

they didn't take a receiver, I thought they were content to go into the season with a, you know,

a double-barreled receiving room with D.K. Medcalf and George Pickens.

But, you know, a coach told me this a long time ago, Dan, and it's still true,

when the production outweighs the aggravation, you keep them.

When the aggravation outweighs the production, you get rid of them.

And that's what happens with George Pickens.

They just thought that, you know, as teammates, it was a problem in the locker room.

It became a problem with Mike Tomlin.

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