Former Steelers WR Allen Robinson II spent one 12 months right here, working with George Pickens and Diontae Johnson in his group. Throughout a latest interview on the ShowTimeSpeaks podcast, he known as it one of the vital gifted rooms he’s been in. Specifically, he mentioned Pickens reminded him quite a lot of a youthful model of himself.
“On the time, I’m enjoying with Diontae Johnson and George Pickens”, Robinson mentioned of the Steelers’ broad receiver room then. “And George Pickens is sort of a model of myself after I was in Jacksonville. So for me, I routinely gravitated in direction of George with the performs he makes and so forth and so forth.
“George might be probably the most bodily gifted receiver I’ve performed with within the league. There’s not a play on the sphere he can’t make. It’s not a catch he can’t make. That was in all probability the most effective or most gifted room I had been in in a pair years as nicely”.
The Steelers traded for Allen Robinson in 2023, hoping to revitalize his earlier type. He had a Professional Bowl and some 1,000-yard seasons below his belt however had not put up large numbers in years. In his one season with Robinson George Pickens did put up 1,140 yards. He didn’t match that this previous season, largely, although, attributable to damage.
As for Robinson, whereas he stayed wholesome and performed almost 800 snaps, the numbers weren’t there. On 49 targets, he caught 34 passes for simply 280 yards, and he didn’t rating. After all, he had Kenny Pickett largely at quarterback. George Pickens really put up a few of his greatest numbers with Mason Rudolph.
The Steelers signed Robinson for greater than an try to recapture his glory days. In any case, they already had George Pickens and Diontae Johnson, who had been their starters. The Steelers needed Robinson as that third receiver and as a frontrunner to assist information the room. That’s a job he took critically, solely strengthened by the expertise and potential he noticed in them.
“Being in there with George and Diontae, them dudes form of leaning on me, and we had a youthful crew. I had been across the block just a little bit, and I wasn’t gonna be the rationale”, he mentioned, that the Steelers failed.
Whereas it wouldn’t make sense to pin it on Robinson, the Steelers did fail, or underachieved, as he put it. Of their lone playoff recreation, George Pickens and Diontae Johnson mixed for 9 catches on 18 targets for 98 yards and one landing. Johnson had the landing, and Pickens had a misplaced fumble.
After the 2023 season, the Steelers launched Robinson attributable to his contract. Additionally they traded Diontae Johnson, and a 12 months later, George Pickens, too. That 2023 room is sort of solely gone aside from Calvin Austin III, wanting considerably completely different at this time. Robinson does imagine that, whoever he’s throwing to, QB Aaron Rodgers is a match for the Steelers’ offense.
