Steelers’ George Pickens gets massive fine for eye-black vs. Cowboys
The NFL handed down a big $10,231 fine on Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver George Pickens after he wrote an NSFW message on his eye-black during his matchup against the Dallas Cowboys in Week 5, per NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero. Pickens was also fined $10,230 for an unnecessary roughness facemask in that contest.
The eye-black said, “open f***ing always” across the 23-year-old’s face. These two fines make for a total of four fines in Pickens’ three-year career. On December 29, 2023, he was fined $16,931 for taunting vs. the Bengals. On October 27, 2023, he was fined $8,525 for a blindside block and taunting against the Los Angeles Rams.
The Steelers are no stranger to eccentric personalities and it starts at the top with head coach Mike Tomlin’s no-nonsense style. After Sunday’s loss to the Cowboys, Tomlin addressed why Pickens only played 34 snaps out of 54, per ESPN’s Brooke Pryor.
We just wanted to kind of minimize his reps in an effort to get more productivity,” the head coach told ESPN’s Brooke Pryor. “We’re just trying to manage in terms of the totality of the big picture. He wasn’t less of a focal point in terms of our intentions of what we wanted to do offensively, but we did want to cut his reps a little bit in an effort to get higher quality play, just in general.”
We just wanted to kind of minimize his reps in an effort to get more productivity,” the head coach told ESPN’s Brooke Pryor. “We’re just trying to manage in terms of the totality of the big picture. He wasn’t less of a focal point in terms of our intentions of what we wanted to do offensively, but we did want to cut his reps a little bit in an effort to get higher quality play, just in general.”
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