PITTSBURGH — The question of who will win the Steelers' quarterback competition has been asked ad nauseam since the night they drafted Kenny Pickett in the first round. But what about the question of how the job will be won?
In general, the Venn diagram of Pickett and Mitch Trubisky has more in the middle than it does on the outsides, but what we're going to do here is analyze what might separate the two as players. And that's going beyond the obvious — one is a five-year NFL veteran, the other is a rookie. Physically, the tale of the tape is strikingly similar.
Trubisky is 6-foot-2, 220 pounds; Pickett is listed at 6-3 and the same weight. Athletically, Trubisky ran a 4.67-second 40-yard dash at the NFL combine five years ago, while Pickett ran a 4.73 this past March. Trubisky posted a time of 4.25 in the 20-yard shuttle run, Pickett a 4.29. Pickett out-jumped Trubisky, 33 1/2 to 27 1/2 , in the vertical leap and broad-jumped five inches farther.
