Mike Tomlin defended George Pickens on the Hail Mary at the end of the loss to the Browns, saying the Browns prevented him from going up for the ball.

The Steelers are playing with fire. The more they give George Pickens a pass, the more they risk their young wide receiver turning into a diva they cannot predict. On the football field, Pickens is an elite pass-catcher,

However, former NFL general manager Doug Whaley believes this is another example of Pickens’s lack of maturity. He predicts that Pickens and the Steelers will have an explosive ending to their tenure.