Pittsburgh steelers cornerback patrick peterson said that if he had to give the keys to one player who would be his team’s starting quarterback in 2024, it would be kenny pickett. Former steelers cornerback bryant mcfadden said in an episode of peterson’s all things covered podcast that he thinks pickett deserves a chance to show what he can do with new offensive coordinator arthur smith. “i get a new offensive coordinator, a new regime, and all that. It needs to be a competition, peterson said. “but if i had to hand the keys to a man, it would be kenny pickett,” he said. We not only drafted this guy, but we also signed him as our franchise quarterback.
It didn’t end up panning out the way we expected it would. We fired our oc, we’re going to give everyone a fresh start, and we drafted him to be our guy. So we now have a new offensive coordinator, a new offensive mind, a new way of thinking about how to get the ball down the field, how to get the ball in the hands of the most important people. “kenny, getting a fresh start, should have the opportunity to be the day one.” If i had to choose which one i wanted to go with, it would be, right now, kenny pickett.” peterson reiterated that he believes in competition at the position, as he has stated before. “it should be a quarterback competition,” he said. “maybe that does light a little fire under his back,” he says. Peterson admits that pickett wasn’t good enough in 2023, or that he was so dissatisfied by what he saw from offensive coordinator matt canada that he would give him another shot with arthur smith calling the plays.
