Mike Tomlin defended George Pickens every step of the way. Publicly, he embraced the challenge of helping Pickens grow and mature, a young kid from Hoover, Alabama with sky-high potential. In the end, the decision to trade Pickens to the Dallas Cowboys didn’t come from ownership. It came from Tomlin himself.
Laying out the catalysts for the move in a Twitter/X article, Steelers’ beat writer Mark Kaboly is confident naming Tomlin the driver of the bus that sent Pickens out of town.
“Make no mistake about it, Tomlin – who has gone out of his way in the past to defend Pickens — is the one who decided that the Pickens rehabilitation project needed to end a year early.