Pittsburgh Steelers rookie quarterback Kenny Pickett is getting a lot of praise right now, and deservedly so after a comeback win in primetime. He has been receiving his plaudits from around the football world, including from those who had previously been critical of his potential.
Yet nearly everybody has had to acknowledge the growth we have witnessed over the past two months, and for many that can be summarized in the fact that he called the game-winning play on the Benny Snell Jr. touchdown run. While we’ve heard this already, yesterday Pickett went into detail about why he thought that play would work based on what he saw, via the team’s website:
I felt like they were really concerned with my legs and how I was doing that throughout the game, so I felt like if there was a zone read, we didn’t block the end and they actually had a guy on the second level that was waiting for me, too, so we had two unblocked guys that I knew we had a pretty good play on if Benny got it to the left side, and it worked well.