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Kovacevic: Pickett's not all the way there yet, and neither are the Steelers ... but these strides are really real

INDIANAPOLIS -- If I'm reading this scenario right, Kenny Pickett's expected by the Steelers' broader faithful to fully mature into the franchise's foreseeable-future fixture at football's most important position, all within the single snap of a partial season for an NFL rookie quarterback.

If not sooner. Like yesterday. Or last month.

Oh, come on, don't be the one who denies it and risks running up all those bonus Bill-from-Blawnox yinzer points. I'm not exactly new to this particular social sphere. I kinda get how this goes.

What's more, Kenny's expected to achieve this extraordinarily rare air under surrounding circumstance that .