{"id":193522,"date":"2025-07-09T12:40:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T12:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/193522\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T12:40:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T12:40:14","slug":"steelers-legend-says-what-everyone-already-knows-about-kenny-pickett-pittsburghs-qb-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/193522\/","title":{"rendered":"Steelers legend says what everyone already knows about Kenny Pickett, Pittsburgh&#8217;s QB woes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/steelers-legend-terry-bradshaw-rips-090847657.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Terry Bradshaw;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terry Bradshaw<\/a> isn&#8217;t letting his beloved <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/pittsburgh-steelers\/356\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Steelers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Steelers<\/a> off the hook \u2014 to him, they botched the <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/diontae-johnson-supports-ex-steelers-233113074.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Kenny Pickett;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kenny Pickett<\/a> experiment.<\/p>\n<p>Bradshaw appeared on last week&#8217;s episode of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oB2x5FQYrCk&amp;t=891s\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:To The Point - Home Services;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">To The Point &#8211; Home Services<\/a> podcast and explained why the Steelers failed in developing Pickett \u2014 pointing to other QB comeback stories as evidence:<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBaker Mayfield is in Tampa Bay playing great now, because you got talent around him,\u201d Bradshaw said. \u201cSteelers get rid of Kenny Pickett. A first-rounder, got rid of him after two years. And they\u2019re still looking for a quarterback. They didn\u2019t even do anything to build around him. Sam Darnold goes into Minnesota \u2014 look at all those weapons. All those weapons, and look what happened. How great did he play.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pickett\u2019s time in Pittsburgh was short-lived, starting just 23 games in his two seasons. He later requested a trade after the Steelers signed <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/insider-says-ex-steelers-qb-233024764.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Russell Wilson;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Russell Wilson<\/a> in the 2024 offseason.<\/p>\n<p>The Steelers have been searching for their next franchise QB since Ben Roethlisberger retired in 2022 \u2014 and while Aaron Rodgers is a much-needed pit stop on what&#8217;s been a long and frustrating journey, the 2026 NFL Draft could be the final destination.<\/p>\n<p>For up-to-date Steelers coverage, follow us on X <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheSteelersWire\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:@TheSteelersWire;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">@TheSteelersWire<\/a> and give our <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SteelersWire\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook page;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">Facebook page<\/a> a like.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Steelers Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/steelerswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/steelers\/2025\/07\/07\/steelers-terry-bradshaw-kenny-pickett\/84496457007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Steelers blasted by Terry Bradshaw for mishandling Kenny Pickett;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Steelers blasted by Terry Bradshaw for mishandling Kenny Pickett<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Terry Bradshaw isn&#8217;t letting his beloved Steelers off the hook \u2014 to him, they botched the Kenny Pickett&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1586,1842,6594,7,570,233,6,520,572,1878,426,32988,11718,7215],"class_list":{"0":"post-193522","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-aaron-rodgers","9":"tag-baker-mayfield","10":"tag-ben-roethlisberger","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-kenny-pickett","13":"tag-minnesota","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-pittsburgh","16":"tag-russell-wilson","17":"tag-sam-darnold","18":"tag-steelers","19":"tag-steelers-coverage","20":"tag-terry-bradshaw","21":"tag-the-steelers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114823327436526051","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}