George Pickens will now try and avoid a fate that almost every other former Steelers WR has faced after going to a new team

The only name that comes to mind as far as a Steelers WR who left and incurred similar, if not more success, would be Emmanuel Sanders. But that deserves an asterisk because there were no character concerns with Sanders and he played with Peyton Manning and one of the best offenses this century as a member of the Denver Broncos. 

Plaxico Buress did go over 1,000 yards a few times as a member of the New York Giants and won a Super Bowl, but he ended up losing two years of his career due to a legal matter. 

So the proof is there, and with George Pickens, while you root for the person and the player, if the Steelers are moving on from him before his rookie deal is even up, that's not a great sign. 

He will have to adapt not only as a wide receiver but as a person, if he's going to stick with the Dallas Cowboys. He is going to a situation where he is clearly the 1B if not certainly the second option to CeeDee Lamb. 

By his second year in Pittsburgh, he had already started to overtake Diontae Johnson as the best option, and he was employed in that role all last year. How will he handle being the number two in Dallas? What happens when they lose and he only receives three targets to Lamb's eight? 

These are the questions that have to be asked of Pickens. A glass-half-full approach says he's only 24 years old and still developing as a human being. A half empty one says he was traded by a team that tolerates all sorts of characters, and even they had enough of him after year three. 

We'll see who's right in the end.