Pat Narduzzi Thought Kenny Pickett Got Drafted By Saints

Kenny Pickett's party thought the Pitt QB was headed to New Orleans.

PITTSBURGH -- The Pittsburgh Steelers took the guy next door in Kenny Pickett, but those at the quarterback's watch party thought another team was on the phone with the New Orleans Saints. 

Pitt head coach Pat Narduzzi, who was in attendance at Pickett's party, told media that those there thought he was on the phone with the Saints. 

New Orleans picked 19th, one pick before the Steelers. 

"You got so engulfed, and there's some tape delay in what we were getting on TV compared to what was in real time," Narduzzi said. "As that whole thing was going on, Kenny got the call, and he bent over. He bent over and you're like, 'Okay it's the Saints.' The Saints were still on the clock and it wasn't like the pick was in when he got the call. So, I never looked back at that TV.

"We're all hooting and hollering. You're all ecstatic about what's going on," Narduzzi continued. "Then, my phone rings at 10:12. It's coach [Mike] Tomlin. I'm like, 'why is coach Tomlin calling me?'"

"So, coach Tomlin calls me and he says, 'Hey, did you see who got him?' And I'm like 'Yeah, the Saints. You're one off.' He's like, 'No, we got him.'

"Then all of sudden [Pickett] has a baseball hat on." 

The Steelers sat tight, but did end up with the first QB off the board, and their top guy at the position. And even if many thought the Saints loved what they saw in Pickett, he's staying in Pittsburgh. 

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