Just one home game into Kenny Pickett’s career and fans are already chanting his name. With Mitch Trubisky struggling through his first home start as a Pittsburgh Steelers, the Arcisure Stadium crowd repeatedly chanted “Kenny!” throughout the game. Mike Tomlin isn’t hearing those chants and as Ben Roethlisberger tells it, the boo-birds are unfair to Trubisky.
In the fourth episode of his new podcast Footbahlin, Roethlisberger said Trubisky’s play didn’t warrant boos.
“They started chanting Kenny,” he said recapping the Steelers’ loss. “I just don’t think it’s fair that it happened to Mitch today because I wouldn’t blame Mitch for the performance today.