Kenny Pickett spent five years with the Pittsburgh Panthers. He’ll be turning 24 years old in a couple of weeks. And he needed all of that experience to get him to where he landed, as the 20th-overall pick by the Pittsburgh Steelers last month during the 2022 NFL Draft. He knows that as well as anybody.
“It was huge”, he said during rookie minicamp of the significance of returning to school last year in his development and getting him here. “Being with Coach [Mark] Whipple and Coach Whipple’s offense, the pro system, I think it just really gave me a good platform and a good baseline to be where I am now, so I felt pretty good out there today”.