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Brooke PryorESPN Staff Writer
- Previously covered the Kansas City Chiefs for the Kansas City Star and Oklahoma University for the Oklahoman.
MIAMI GARDENS -- Welcome to the NFL, George Pickens.
The Pittsburgh Steelers rookie wide receiver, who made a sanction for himself with unthinkable catches successful grooming camp, yet snagged an eye-popping 1 successful the extremity portion for his archetypal vocation NFL touchdown.
Pickens grabbed backmost Kenny Pickett's propulsion astir successful mid-turn arsenic helium wiggled and ran distant from choky sum by Miami cornerback Noah Igbinoghene. Pickens' touchdown had a 35.7% completion probability, the lowest connected a Steelers touchdown this season, according to NFL Next Gen Stats. The people capped a 13-play, 86-yard thrust implicit 7 minutes and 29 seconds.
— Pittsburgh Steelers (@steelers) October 24, 2022Pickett got his chap rookie going earlier connected the drive, hitting him for a 30-yard summation connected second-and-14 arsenic Pickens streaked wide unfastened down the near sideline. He caught each 4 targets connected the thrust for 47 yards, and his touchdown reception was lone the 2nd by a Steelers' wide receiver this season.
Pickens' touchdown drawback closed Miami's pb to conscionable 3 points with little than 2 minutes to play successful the archetypal fractional aft the Dolphins jumped retired to a 13-0 pb successful the archetypal quarter.
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