Wide Receiver · Dallas Cowboys

George Pickens

No. 3 · 5th season

Pickens hasn't said he'll show up for Dallas's mandatory spring sessions

New cities come with new questions, and George Pickens is already asking one back.

Pickens joined the Dallas Cowboys this offseason after years with the Pittsburgh Steelers, where his talent was rarely in question and his drama rarely far behind. He arrived in Dallas carrying real expectations — the kind a new team buys into when it trades for a wide receiver with his ability.

Now the Cowboys' mandatory spring sessions are on the calendar, and Pickens has not committed to attending. That's not a small thing. Missing mandatory sessions can mean fines, and more than the money, it tends to set a tone — about how a player sees the new arrangement, and how the new arrangement sees him.

Whether this is leverage, a scheduling wrinkle, or something else entirely, no one outside that building seems to know yet. What the Cowboys thought they were getting and what they're getting may still be exactly the same thing. But the first chapter of a fresh start rarely looks like this.

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