FRISCO, Texas -- All things considered, wide receiver George Pickens has been everything the Dallas Cowboys could have hoped for when they acquired him this past offseason in a trade with the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Pickens has been a top-5 to top-10 wide receiver across the entire league in 2025 by just about any metric: catches (78, the seventh-most in the NFL), yards receiving (1,179, the third-most in the NFL), receiving touchdowns (8, tied for the fifth-most in the NFL), receiving first downs (62, the second-most in the NFL) and catches of 25 yards or more (11, tied for the second-most in the NFL).

However, the reason the Steelers were willing to part with the uber-talented 24-year-old and a 2027 sixth-round pick in exchange for the Cowboys' 2026 third-round pick and a 2027 fifth-round

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