INDIANAPOLIS -- For a brief moment Monday night, Kenny Pickett traveled back in time. As he walked onto the turf at Lucas Oil Field, Pickett drifted back to eight months earlier when he made the same walk across the field, not as the Pittsburgh Steelers starting quarterback, but as a top prospect in the 2022 NFL draft.
On the same field where he took the test he'd been studying for his entire life at February's NFL Combine, impressing teams with his accuracy, speed and mobility, Pickett won his first NFL road game and completed his first fourth-quarter comeback with a 24-17 victory against the Indianapolis Colts.