Kenny Pickett reveals his biggest weakness

The Pittsburgh Steelers have themselves a new starting quarterback in the form of 1st round draft pick Kenny Pickett, who took over from the struggling veteran Mitchell Trubisky earlier this season. 

For Pickett, who helped lead the Steelers to a win against the Indianapolis Colts, he's identified what the biggest challenge that he's faced so far in his first NFL campaign. 

“Everyone just talks about the speed of players and the speed of the game is faster. That’s true. Definitely, everyone’s faster,” Pickett replied. “As a rookie coming in, one, you’re learning a new system. And, two, you’re going against a lot more defenses than you’re used to in college. So, when people think — from a quarterback standpoint at least — just talking about when the game moves faster, there’s a lot more going on mentally. So, that’s why I think it feels a lot faster than it really, truly is just [from] the physical standpoint of it.”

Pickett, who has thrown zero picks since the bye week, also noted that there are plenty of new defensive coverages that he faces at the professional level. 

“In college, you get in the flow of the game. You’re going to see the same look multiple times, and when you make sideline adjustments on it, you can almost guarantee that you’re going to get that same look that you saw earlier in the game. I think at this level, you’re going to see multiple looks of the same formation structurally,” Pickett explained.