Steelers QB Kenny Pickett has a question that must be answered in 2023
The Pittsburgh Steelers are only a few days away from the unofficial start of their 2023 season. Come July 26th, the season will be full go when the practice horn sounds off in Latrobe. And according to Gilberto Manzano of Sports Illustrated, Kenny Pickett can answer a question that all Steelers fans desperately want the […]
The Pittsburgh Steelers are only a few days away from the unofficial start of their 2023 season.
Come July 26th, the season will be full go when the practice horn sounds off in Latrobe.
And according to Gilberto Manzano of Sports Illustrated, Kenny Pickett can answer a question that all Steelers fans desperately want the answer to, starting in training camp:
“Is Kenny Pickett the right quarterback to lead Pittsburgh?”
In his release of the biggest question marks in the AFC North before training camp, Manzano is asking the question that all Steelers fans wonder deep down. No matter how much you want Pickett to succeed, his future is still unknown, but not for much longer.
Pickett had a 7–5 record as a starter last year and won his final three games to help Pittsburgh make a late postseason push that fell short. Winning those critical games was enough for Pickett to be tabbed as the starting quarterback in 2023 without much competition.-Manzano
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And that's how it should be. You don't invest first-round draft capital in a player for them to sit on the bench, especially when said player is a quarterback and showed signs of promise during his rookie campaign.
Pickett, the 2022 first-round pick, can let the Steelers know they made the right decision by leading a productive offense against the team’s rugged defense throughout training camp practices. -Manzano
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The questions will begin to be answered before the games even matter because as Manzano notes, the Steelers will be running team drills where the starters play each other, not to mention the invaluable joint practices that have somewhat replaced preseason games.
Pickett is foreign to this process, as last year he wasn't just the backup, rather he was quarterback number three on the depth chart when camp started. But that ship has sailed and he's the captain of the newest version of the Pittsburgh Steelers.
How smooth the sailing will be is to be determined.
For Manzano's full column click here.
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