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Former Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver George Pickens denied that he wrote a parting shot at the team in a social media comment.
The post read, “They the cheapest organization. Ain’t no stacking year after year they gone let them [expletive] go too soon as it’s time Lmaoo.”
Pickens claim it was AI. The post has since been deleted.
“Literally on a plane. No service. Just landed and seen straight lies from Pitt fans. Stop with AI trying to make a story. I’m happy for everything the Steel City did for me. Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers out there,” Pickens wrote in an Instagram story post.
So, there you have it. Pickens could be telling the truth or lying. I guess we’ll never know.
New #Cowboys WR George Pickens weighs in on #Steelers’ fans, via his IG stories: pic.twitter.com/mZBo2aeEVH
— Jordan Schultz (@Schultz_Report) May 11, 2025
General manager Omar Khan didn’t mention contract talks as a reason that Pickens was traded, and team sources confirmed to Steelers Now that no talks had even occurred before the trade, with the Steelers preferring to do that type of business later in the summer.
“We just felt that a fresh start for both sides was the right thing,” Khan said.
Former NFL wide receiver T.J. Houshmandzadeh revealed some key details on why the Steelers traded George Pickens to the Cowboys earlier this week. It lines up with previous reports. The Steelers quite simply had enough with Pickens’ antics.
“George Pickens had stepped over and crossed the line a bit too many times and I know people that play with the Steelers. He’d be late for the team plane that would be flying out to away games multiple times. He’d be late to get on the team bus and they had enough of it,” Houshmandzadeh said on the Up On Game podcast.
“They didn’t want to pay him 30-plus million dollars and these antics are probably just going to get worse because you’re not even making anywhere near that. You’re doing all this now? What you gonna do when you get the money? And so they said. ‘You know what, we’re gonna get rid of [him]. Dallas, he’s your problem,’ but he’s gonna be a really good problem.”
This article originally appeared on Steelers Now: George Pickens Denies Ripping Steelers Organization on Instagram: ‘Straight Lies’
