Halicke: Pickett's 'week after week' improvement embodied in one play

Kenny Pickett during Wednesday's practice at the UPMC Rooney Sports Complex.The growth of a rookie quarterback is typically slow. Seldom is there some eureka moment where the growing pains stop. As we've said on many, many occasions, you've gotta give them time.

But, if you're looking for a tangible way to measure Kenny Pickett's progress, his performance in Monday night's win over the Colts might be the closest thing to a moment that you can point to and say, "Okay, this kid's got the potential to be a franchise quarterback."

When Mason Cole told us after Monday night's game that Pickett called the play in which Benny Snell Jr. scored the deciding touchdown in the fourth quarter, it got a…