{"id":480523,"date":"2024-03-18T19:09:05","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T23:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=480523"},"modified":"2024-03-18T19:09:05","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T23:09:05","slug":"pickett-is-proud-how-he-handled-pittsburghs-exit","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/pickett-is-proud-how-he-handled-pittsburghs-exit\/","title":{"rendered":"Pickett is proud how he handled Pittsburgh&#8217;s exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Philadelphia QB <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/player\/kenny-pickett\/\">Kenny Pickett<\/a> pushed back on rumors that he handled the addition of <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/player\/russell-wilson\/\">Russell Wilson<\/a> badly in Pittsburgh, which led to the franchise trading him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I believe the communication is what it is. It was done not in front of cameras. I&#8217;m proud of the way that I handled it. I handled it the way I that I had to do,&#8221; Kenny shared with the media today during his presentation as a new Eagles player. &#8220;I&#8217;m happy to be in Philadelphia. It worked fantastic that I was traded to the Eagles. Everything happens for a reason, and I believe that I\u2019m in the right place to succeed right now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kenny Pickett says he felt it was time to move on from Pittsburgh and go somewhere he could grow his career <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Eagles?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Eagles<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YCYO3Z0FEY\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/YCYO3Z0FEY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Eliot Shorr-Parks (@EliotShorrParks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EliotShorrParks\/status\/1769773049572700272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 18, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Kenny was exchanged to Philly at the end of the past week, along with this year\u2019s 4<sup>th<\/sup>-round selection. Pittsburgh got this year\u2019s 3<sup>rd<\/sup>-round selection and 2 7<sup>th<\/sup>-round selections for next year\u2019s NFL Draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Philadelphia QB Kenny Pickett pushed back on rumors that he handled the addition of Russell Wilson badly in Pittsburgh, which led to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":480524,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17151,17324,17123],"news_category":[16703,14084],"gn_keywords":[19477,17873,18180],"acf":{"announce":"The new Eagles QB is confident about how he 'handled' the Steelers exit.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/480523"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480523"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/480523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":480527,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/480523\/revisions\/480527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480523"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=480523"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=480523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}