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Kenny Pickett Denies Refusing to Be Steelers Backup | Alan Saunders, Steelers Now

Pickett said the plan coming into the week was that if he was healthy enough to play, he would start, and that if he was not healthy enough to play, he was not going to dress.

“I was going to start and play, or if they didn’t think I was good enough to do that, healthy enough, I was going to be the three,” Pickett said.