Report: Steelers 'in play' to trade for Jets wide receiver following George Pickens trade
Report: Steelers 'in play' to trade for Jets wide receiver following George Pickens trade
The George Pickens trade may have just set the Steelers' wide receiver room back to square one — but Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk dropped a bombshell of speculation as to who his replacement will likely be.
According to Florio, the Steelers are "in play" to trade for Jets WR Allen Lazard — who had previously followed Aaron Rodgers from Green Bay to New York.
"Why Lazard? Because Rodgers completely and totally trusts him. And Lazard, for whatever reason, performs much better with Rodgers than he does without him. (At one point during his first year in New York, during Rodgers's season-long injury absence, Lazard became a healthy scratch.)"
Acquiring Lazard could be a breeze, as the Jets are likely looking for a late-round draft pick as compensation — not to mention that the Jets receiver also recently took a massive pay cut on his 2025 contract, from $11 million to $2.5 million.
If Rodgers can truly get the most out of Lazard, trading for his former teammate becomes a must-have following Pickens' departure to the Dallas Cowboys — as Calvin Austin III and Roman Wilson are currently slated to be WR2 and WR3, respectively.
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