For Pittsburgh Steelers QB Kenny Pickett, this offseason is likely to be the toughest of his career.
Everything is seemingly on the table for the Steelers, with it being all but a certainty that Pittsburgh will add competition for Kenny Pickett via trade, free agency or the draft
But one of Pickett’s staunchest supporters is ESPN analyst and former Pitt Panther Louis Riddick, who is less than two years removed from pounding the table for Pickett as a player who shared his alma mater. But even Riddick couldn’t resist one of the biggest trade rumors in Pittsburgh.
“I don’t want to ever put anyone in front of my boy Kenny Pickett because Kenny’s my guy . . . but Justin Fields is one of those dudes who’d I be like, might have to put him in front of you Kenny, might have to go ahead and work with this because Justin, in that offense, it would work,” said Riddick on a recent episode of ESPN’s “Get Up.”
“The play-action game with Justin under center on first and second down with the dynamic duo that they have at the running back position right here with Najee Harris and Jaylen Warren, it is perfect, it’s absolutely perfect with the weapons, with George Pickens and Diontae Johnson and Pat Freiermuth, are you kidding?” added Riddick.
Things are going to go one of two ways for Pickett.
He’s going to either internalize the noise as motivation, go into camp in the best shape of his life, and win the starting job, or he’s going to fold under the pressure.
And say what you want about Pickett, but he’s tough, both mentally and physically, leaving me to bet on the former over the latter.
