
The Facts: The Steelers select Georgia wideout Pickens with the 52nd pick overall.
Diehards Line:
As NFL.com notes, Pickens is a lanky perimeter wideout with exciting ball skills but in desperate need of additional play strength and a clean bill of health. Resilient to make it back so quickly after an ACL tear, but needs to show quick-cutting ability for route-running. Pickens possesses borderline elite ball skills with in-air adjustments, strong hands and an enormous catch radius. However, he fails to put defenders on his hip and command the catch space to make his work less cluttered. The routes need more polish and physicality but he has the athletic ability to become a viable target on all three levels with a little wider gap between ceiling and floor than NFL teams might like. He joines Diontae Johnson and Chase Claypool at the top of the Steelers depth chart.