Dallas Cowboys going all in, Dak Prescott happy with trade for WR George Pickens from Steelers

The Dallas Cowboys are officially all in and Jerry Jones has come through his promise with a trade with the Pittsburgh Steelers for wide receiver George Pickens.

Jones promised before and after the 2025 NFL Draft that team was working on a trade to finally acquire a receiver to complement star CeeDee Lamb and give quarterback Dak Prescott another big-time weapon.

Pickens is mercurial in his ways but there is no question about his talent. He is a big body receiver and a bona fide downfield threat.

The Cowboys are giving up a third-r0und pick in the 2026 NFL Draft and and a fifth-round pick in 2027 NFL for a sixth in 2027 and Pickens, per reports.

Details of the Steelers-Cowboys trade expected to be completed today, per sources.

🏈Steelers receive 2026 3rd-round pick and a 2027 5th-round pick.

🏈Cowboys receive WR George Pickens and a 2027 6th-round pick.

— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) May 7, 2025

Ask if he was pleased, Prescott responded, “Love the size and Yes,” in a text.

Prescott also was hoping for the Cowboys to upgrade the receiver corps in the 2025 NFL Draft.

The team had hoped to take Arizona receiver Tet McMillan with the 12th overall pick but he was selected sixth by the Carolina Panthers. The Cowboys then selected Alabama guard Tyler Booker and were never able to scratch the receiver itch in the draft like they hoped.

Jones, however, promised the team was not done looking to add to the position with bona fide No. 2 receiver.

“It definitely was a big-time thought, but the train has not left the station if improvement is needed from what we’ve got on campus,” Jones said Saturday, via the team’s official transcript. “It’s a year-round deal, but we don’t have to be through at receiver in any way. As a matter of fact, as we got on into the draft, the likelihood of creating competition if we did go out and did something that’s important to us in free agency, started making the depth we’ve got on the roster right now with our possible twos and threes that might be competitive there if we brought someone that was obvious to everybody that he’s your second man. So, I’m just giving you the benefit of the mentality there. But definitely the idea that we could, if the opportunity comes up, if we want to, can address this in free agency.”

The Cowboys addressed it in a trade with the Steelers

Pickens in the final year of his rookie deal and is due just $3.65 million in 2025 in what is now a prove-it season for the former 2022 second-round pick who has dealt with injuries and characters issues through his first three years in the NFL

Pickens has posted 174 receptions for 2,841 yards and 12 touchdowns in his career. His best season was 2023 when he recorded an NFL-high 18.1 yards per catch in 2023 to go with 63 receptions for 1,140 yards and five touchdowns.

Now slots ahead of Jalen Tolbert, Jonathan Mingo and KaVontae Turpin as the Cowboys No. 2 receiver behind Lamb.

Pickers, 24, will get a chance to play with top quarterback in Prescott for the first time in his career.

He wanted a new deal in Pittsburgh. Will coming to Dallas and being able to put up numbers with Prescott so he can cash in in free agency in 2026 make him happy enough to maximize his performance without a new deal?

Or will the Cowboys have to pay him?

What we know now is that Pickens is coming to Dallas.