{"id":30223,"date":"2025-05-07T05:15:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T05:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/30223\/"},"modified":"2025-05-07T05:15:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T05:15:09","slug":"george-pickens-wants-to-stay-with-pittsburgh-steelers-insider-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/30223\/","title":{"rendered":"George Pickens wants to stay with Pittsburgh Steelers, insider says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"4U2HJEVLS5H7NK3UVPQGLNCOK4\">The trade rumors around <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pennlive.com\/steelers\/2025\/05\/steelers-star-wr-george-pickens-nearly-demanded-a-trade-out-of-pittsburgh-insider-says.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.pennlive.com\/steelers\/2025\/05\/steelers-star-wr-george-pickens-nearly-demanded-a-trade-out-of-pittsburgh-insider-says.html\">George Pickens <\/a>have cooled down, and the star wide receiver wants to be with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pennlive.com\/steelers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.pennlive.com\/steelers\/\">Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a>, according to ESPN\u2019s Jeremy Fowler. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"4N63O42DNBA4TC3HT77O3WW2M4\">\u201cTrade talks or anything of that sort have cooled. There was some smoke around the NFL Draft, but I was told, in the end, [George] Pickens in the end wants to be in Pittsburgh, sort of flirted with a trade request, but in the end, he loves Mike Tomlin and wants to be a part of things,\u201d Fowler said on NFL Live.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"PGYF7VBGPVHKRGC4XYYHKPHV7U\">When asked this offseason if the team plans to trade Pickens on Tuesday, general manager Omar Khan has often noted that the team would like Pickens and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pennlive.com\/steelers\/2025\/04\/dk-metcalf-requested-trade-out-of-seahawks-multiple-times-before-landing-with-steelers.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.pennlive.com\/steelers\/2025\/04\/dk-metcalf-requested-trade-out-of-seahawks-multiple-times-before-landing-with-steelers.html\">Metcalf<\/a>\u00a0to be together.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"EPDV4QIWYNEOTAJ6EZNXHQWQAY\">\u201cNo, I mean, we\u2019re glad we have George and DK here. I think they\u2019re going to be exciting for everyone to watch. I\u2019m excited to have DK here, but now I\u2019m going to answer your question,\u201d Khan said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"I4UKNGZFEBDBNBK3ZPHYSOAQUE\">Pickens missed three games with a hamstring injury, dampening what looked to be a second-straight 1000-yard season with the third-year wide receiver.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"DQ4NYONZVRE3FPHSKHGURTUHRE\">He averaged 15.3 yards per reception with 59 receptions for 900 yards on the year. In each of the last two seasons, Pickens has eclipsed 15 yards per catch and 900 yards as the focus of the team\u2019s passing offense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The trade rumors around George Pickens have cooled down, and the star wide receiver wants to be with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2055],"tags":[7,6,3846,520,57,2360,426],"class_list":{"0":"post-30223","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-steelers","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-nflraw24","11":"tag-pittsburgh","12":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","13":"tag-pittsburghsteelers","14":"tag-steelers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114464851524290085","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30223","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=30223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}