BREAKING NEWS: New Eagles QB Kenny Pickett embracing change: ‘I’m going through it right now’
Kenny Pickett has in no time gone from being a first-round pick to a reinforcement quarterback.
It’s improbable the way he envisioned he would take since being drafted as the No. 20 generally pick in 2022, yet it is one that he is proceeding to embrace.
“Change is something incredible,” Pickett said through Ben Istvan of The Philadelphia Inquirer. “I’m going through it at this moment. I was in Pittsburgh for a very long time, and presently I’m over in Philadelphia. … I think a many individuals most likely have a few negative perspectives on change, however that is simply your point of view toward it. I suppose on the off chance that you keep a positive mentality, it’ll generally end up as something good to improve things.”
In March, the Eagles exchanged a third-round pick to the Steelers for Pickett. He mentioned to be exchanged after Pittsburgh marked veteran quarterback Russell Wilson in free organization.
It is a choice that Pickett has been exceptionally censured for since he would have been permitted to contend to be the Steelers’ starter this season, an opportunity he will not have in Philadelphia with Jalen Damages as the unmistakable No. 1 quarterback.
Notwithstanding, the 26-year-old has learned it is ideal to zero in on demonstrating the people who support him right as opposed to his faultfinders wrong.
“The world has an adequate number of cynics,” Pickett added. “There are a lot of individuals that are questioning. That is most likely most of individuals that are out there in the media, fan bases. Yet, … mentors, relatives, in the event that you turn your brain around and attempt to demonstrate them right and what they trust in you, you’ll be in a more certain outlook.”
How Pickett will demonstrate his allies right on the seat stays disputable, yet all it will take so that him could see the field again is a physical issue to Damages.
He encountered a comparative situation last season when he experienced a high lower leg sprain in Week 13 and never landed his position back from quarterback Bricklayer Rudolph.
That isn’t to say exactly the same thing will happen this year to help him, yet the Hawks’ late-season breakdown (losing six of their last seven games, including the end of the season games) will have everybody under a magnifying instrument.
Pickett appears to sit tight for that open door as he endeavors to head straight back in the wake of tossing only 13 scores and 13 capture attempts in 25 profession games.
