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But when you score six touchdowns in five games, that'll happen. He's a receiver's

receiver. He's fun to watch. He's explosive. Forget about the things he did in Pittsburgh last

year. Remember at the end of the game when he pulled down Jordan Lewis by his face mask?

I do. Okay.

Hopefully that was long away. But we're just, we're focusing on the here and now. And the stretch he went on without CD Lamb, where that was a big question mark, can he be in number one? And by the way, good on Schottenheimer to move him around and just not keep him out on the perimeter. I mean, they have, it's not like he's moving around as much as, say, Turpin or even CD, but I like that they just didn't keep him out on

the edge. And that spoke to 32 catches, over 500 yards and six scores. And that's typically

CD Lamb. He's the Z receiver in this offense. George Pickens was brought in to be an ex-receiver,

be on the outside, run go routes, mismatch against people. But yeah, he's shown he can be a Z also

in C.D. Lamb, who is probably going to play this weekend. He's practicing. So this will be,

this will be a good test almost. Like, it's, it's weird to think that that you're getting a top two to three wide receiver back and seeing how productive george pickens can be well he won't have 10 or 11 catches i don't think i mean he's not going to be the number one option that is is still absolutely CD Lamb because he's the better

receiver of the two, in my opinion, and he's getting paid more. And the question is, how is

picking is going to handle going back to being the 1A or number two? And we have plenty of season

left, plenty of runway for him to put up numbers. But just in the absence of CD, he has definitely

shown the league that he needs maybe not like top five receiver money, but somewhere

north of 30 million per year. Yeah. I mean, if you were to sign him right after the trade,

which Pickens wouldn't have done, but you'd probably say, okay, it's going to be a little north of 20,

I'd say at that point, just through what he's gone through in Pittsburgh, the paying for the

potential and also mixing in the downside of it. He seems like a 20 plus million, but now he's definitely

earned somebody's going to pay him over 30 million dollars well

the question is will it be the cowboys and yesterday pickens was talking to the scribes in the room

and he sort of left the door open of like yeah you know i'm i'm really enjoying life here he's

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