Dallas Cowboys had a calm wide schedule of the depth of the receiver after the Elite Alpha Ceedee lamb at the beginning of the month. It was widely assumed that they would turn to the WR2 place in the NFL draft, but they decided to satisfy other needs and left Jahen Tolbert and Jonathan Mingo (theoretically) sitting behind the lamb.
This changed on Wednesday morning, when the cowboys took up trading with Pittsburgh Stylens for the wide receiver of George Pickens. The cowboys were sent to the third round back to Pittsburgh and exchanged elections on day 3 in the NFL draft 2027.
Why Stylers handed out Pickens
I think that at first it is instructive to study this trade from the angle of Stylers, because it helps to report that Dallas gets into the pickens. Pickens trading was on my radar since the end of last season, and I was preparing to go on an entry that predicts that this would happen at some moment in the offseason after talking with several people at the NFL intelligence plant in February. If there are any doubts, the fact that the organization decided to exchange for the starting radiograph of another team in DK Metcalf and give it an extension of $ 30 million north, was supposed to remove it. This is not shocking, while Pickens was made, since my understanding of the situation is that there was almost 0% of the chance that Stylers was interested in a second contract offer him. What is a little surprising is that they did not do this before the project this year, but again, it is instructive, where this relationship was.
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It is quite known that Pittsburgh, who theoretically is in the shortest of the short-term windows with 41-year-old Aaron Rogers, was probably their starting defender this season, was ready to take the draft in 2026 for George Picks, so as not to be in their team in 2025.
That is why these bites: it was quite obvious, having watched the film last season that Pikens played the best football in his career in the first month of last season.
He destroyed human lighting and won not only his typical diet on vertical routes. The work of Pickens on exit outside the line was significantly improved, and he received a consistent separation into inclinations, even when he did not receive football. I was so impressed by his game.
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It seems that all systems are leaving, but everything has changed almost immediately after this video is higher. In the 5th week, by irony against cowboys, he played only 58.6% of the offensive pictures and fell under the critic for his efforts and concentration, especially when games were developed to go his own way. He clearly ran along the routes and was not engaged; This film was cruel. Pickens enjoyed a strong section of the games with Russell Wilson in the center, but then missed three games with an injury in December. He returned to play in the last two games of the regular season, but was criticized again for his efforts during the Christmas loss to the leaders, and he was without prejudice from Bengals with a few drops and mistakes in the disputed situations in their loss of 18 weeks in Cincinnati. He had one catch for eight yards and a fine of interference in the first half of the defeat of the wild card in Baltimore.
Feel that you just went on the American hill of maximums and falls? It was Picent’s experience for three years in Pittsburgh. It was the ownership of the trip, the front is office, and Mike Tomlin were ready to exit. None of these problems found Pittsburgh by surprise – there is a reason why a player with his talent was available in the second round back in 2022 – their tolerance for experience had just passed its course.
Why cowboys risked at the pickens
So, now we come to the decision of Dallas to take Picent and everything connected with him; All maximums and all minimums. It is important to understand the risk that they risk here when you analyze this deal, and look beyond the limits of your statistics at the end of the season or obsessed with how he played with terrible defenders in unfortunate crimes. And you need to do this, even if you like the trade, what I do.
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The cowboys did not just have a clear need for someone with a “WR” next to their name; Their specific shortcomings demanded that someone with the exact set of George Pickens.
Dallas did an excellent work on the armament of the lamb sidei, moving it around the formation. The lamb leads all the wide receivers with 43 yards per game from the slot over the past two seasons. He is both a great threat and the first car as an internal receiver. The lamb is good enough to benefit from any alignment, but its connection with DAK PressCott and the value of the offense are maximized when aligned from the line or inside.
The fact that the cowboys were missed during this period is a real X -ray relapse, which is built outside the lamb and threatens protection around the field and in human coverage. Picent is cut out of stone, a classic X-ray reception. He is the leading winner of the ball, and in his best manifestations is dangerous against human lighting. Even when he suffers from his own failures and playing with poor quotas, he is the fourth among all the wide receivers in yards along the route against man over the last two seasons combined. Its 3.16 figures are watched only by Niko Collins, Lamb and Hey Jay Brown. Let’s not get involved, he does not have a complete set of skills of these elite players, and in the specific vertical part of the X -ray relapse, he is excellent when he is engaged.
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At least, Pickens brings Prescott what he missed since Michael Gallup tore his ACL. Pickens is well separated on the routes down and outward, especially against lighting the press, and may be the winner on the stop routes.
This one thing is worth it to exchange the third round for the player under the expiring contract, given the cries of Dallas for this wide type of wide receiver and its goals for the season. The fact that he played at some moment, as a updated version of the lower and intermediate separator, which he showed as a prospect, makes it more teasing.
Pickens trading can become the lack of this cowboy that is necessary for the passage of cowboys, and he could kill in the contract year for a team that wants to insult him under the leadership of the new head coach Brian Schottenheimer. We could see for the best season of his career when he is attached to the better passing my career in the NFL. Pikens could also return to the same old bad habits, and cowboys could regret that they sent a receiver to the 2nd day draft, which he never quietly received with the program. There is a dispersion with this course, but I am not to blame the cowboys on him for leaning on him.
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In any case, they will at least be interesting, and this is not what you could say about this team, and, of course, about the offensive product over the past 12 months.
If D.K. Metalf and George Pickens were going to share the field, I was not too interested in compiling any of them in fantasy this season. Now that we know that both of them will not be a member of the Pittsburgh crime, I am at least a little more interested.
Stylers was the 28th at neutral speed of the passage when Russell Wilson was in the center last season. This is a familiar territory for the crime of Arthur Smith, and it is here that I will design them regardless of who is in the center. One wide receiver should dominate the target share to become a starter for every week in the attack, and now Metalf is ready to do this. It is also very well suited for the x -ray of the routes of this crime that the priority of disconnecting from the game.
The metakalf scheme is also suitable for a blocked high target share to make me hit it back into my wide TOP-24 receivers, at least for this season. This suggests that everything that remains of Rogers plays for this team. If this is Mason Rudolph, forget about it.
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In another place in Pittsburgh, this only confirms their commitment to the operation of the first first information. I cannot become too higher on a beginner, running away from Caleb Johnson as an ideal scheme and the first runner of the first year, but this will not hurt.
Going to George Pickens, it is a little more complicated in ranking among the wide receivers, but this is a victory for him in Redraft. He receives an update of the quota, regardless of how the situation with Pittsburgh figured out, and he goes into a team that requires his skills. Stell, regardless of how you cut it.
To return, for example, Gallup, he had 12.8 fantasy points for the game season in 2019, when a clear receiver No. 2 played X opposite the specialist in the movement in Amari Kuper when he catches the passes from Duck Prescott. This would place it around WR16 to 18 last season, and this is probably a high rating for Pickens. But, given his talent and this environment, this is at least in the range of results for Picent. Given his probable deployment as a vertical X -ray receiver, I expect a trip to get to the point that statistics are unstable at the end of the season. Most likely, I will exhibit it right outside the top 30 receivers in my ratings, which have a similar combustible weekly profile, while recognizing that its floor is in the full season, taking into account all the factors that we went above are slightly insignificant than the majority.
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This step is really interested in the cowboy attack as a common ecosystem. Whatever you think about the pickens, it is a massive update compared to their previous perimeter options. I would really like it to be clear, starting to run back to Target on this schedule of depth, but you can take throws in the late round in Jaydon Blue if they do not trade at another veteran in this place.
The fantasy ceiling Daka Precott is slightly higher than its current CB17 consensus through FantasyPros. While Ceedee Lamb may not have 190 goals in its range of results with Pickens in Fold, it does not support me, evaluating it as the best this season this season. More landings are useful for each member of this crime, including CEEDEE LAMB, and the complement of George Pikens, of course, increases their chances of enrolling the landings.
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