Kenny Pickett Set to Practice Wednesday, May Play vs. Ravens

Mike Tomlin said on Tuesday during his press conference that Steelers quarterback Kenny Pickett will practice on Wednesday in some capacity while dealing with a bone bruise, and that his participation and the quality of that participation will determine throughout the week if he can play against the Ravens. The door is open for him to play, but Tomlin is not scared of playing Mitch Trubisky if he needs to do that. On Sunday, he said that he was confident in Trubisky if the team had to move to him for the week.

Kenny Pickett was seen in the locker room on Monday without a knee brace on his injured left knee. He is wearing a compression sleeve on the injured knee. While Pickett had a slight limp, the quarterback appeared in good spirits after suffering the reported bone bruise and muscle strain in that knee on a fourth down sack by Texans defensive Jonathan Greenard.

Pickett was helped off by trainers and limped heavily off the field. Greenard sacked Pickett with all his weight coming down on Pickett’s left leg. Pickett clutched his left knee following the sack. It was a tumultuous game with Pickett at the helm. He finished the game with just 114 passing yards on 15 completions with 23 attempts. Pittsburgh only scored six points in the fourth quarter when Pickett went down.

While the injury does not appear serious, the team’s caution with it will likely be a long-term outlook rather than short-term, given the bye week. If Pickett can get up to speed, perhaps he does play, but they could sit him and give him two full weeks to recover from the injury. His practice, which will be in pads with the rest of the team, must be quality for him to play against a Ravens team with many different pressure looks.