The young receiver played only 60% of his team's offensive snaps against Dallas.
Part of the problem was wide receiver George Pickens, who finished with only three catches for 26 yards on the night. Heafter the final whistle and overall did not have a good night out there. He also wasn't out there very much.
ESPN's Steelers reporter, Brooke Pryor, noticed Pickens only played about 60% of his team's offensive snaps and asked head coach Mike Tomlin why he wasn't out there the whole time. Tomlin had a pretty strange answer, saying he was trying to maximize Pickens's productivity and compared it to rotating defensive linemen in and out of the game in order to keep their legs fresh.
"We just wanted to kind of minimize his reps in an effort to get more productivity," Tomlin said. "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 o get higher quality play, just in general.
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