Steelers QB Kenny Pickett denies refusing backup role
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Kenny Pickett denied he refused to play the backup role to quarterback Mason Rudolph and declared such reports disappointing and without merit.
Pickett clarified that the decision to sit came largely from medical personnel assessing his readiness four weeks removed from "tightrope" surgery to accelerate recovery from a high-ankle sprain against Arizona in Week 13. Mitch T