Cowboys’ Jourdan Lewis Mocks Steelers’ George Pickens After The WR Pulls On His Facemask

Dallas Cowboys defensive back Jourdan Lewis took exception to an unsportsmanlike play by Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver George Pickens at the end of their Sunday Night Football matchup and mocked him on the way back to the locker room.

“Pittsburgh need a receiver,” he said. “George Pickens weak!”

When the clock reached triple zeros at the end of the game, Lewis taunted Pickens with the football, which Pickens reacted to and dragged him to the ground with Lewis’ facemask. The defensive back then charged at the wide receiver before the referee intervened and ended the scuffle between them.

Pickens seemed to make that out-of-character move from frustration, as he only had three catches for 26 yards and no touchdowns on seven targets. His disappointing night came on the backs of one of the best games of his career, where he went for 113 yards but then crashed back down to Earth against the Steelers. After the game, Pittsburgh’s head coach, Mike Tomlin, detailed his team’s usage of Pickens.

“We just wanted to minimize his reps in an effort to get more productivity. We’re just trying to rep 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.”

Dallas took the lead with 20 seconds left in the fourth quarter, handing the Steelers their second straight loss since beginning the season 3-0. Tomlin now faces a quarterback controversy as Russell Wilson practiced in full for the first time in 2024 on Wednesday as the former Super Bowl champion nurses back from a calf injury. For now, it seems that Justin Fields will remain the starter, but given he only threw for 131 yards against the Cowboys, it could be a short leash for the former Georgia Bulldog.

The Steelers drafted Pickens with the 52nd pick in the second round of the 2022 draft, and he broke out for 1,140 yards in 2023.

Article by Jordan Silversmith