How could George Pickens diagnose his own acrobatics from last Thursday's game at Cleveland?
By humbly admitting that it wasn't even close to his best.
When asked on Thursday about where he would rank his insane, one-handed grab on Thursday Night Football, Pickens couldn't even place it inside his own top five.
Check that -- in his own top SIX.
"That's probably like seven," he said.
SEVEN!?
What could 1 through 6 POSSIBLY be, then?
"UGA (University of Georgia) practice, for real," Pickens said. "I made some crazier -- one of them is on YouTube, so you'll probably see it, but a lot of them are undiscovered."
After digging through and doing some searching, we unearthed this Short clip posted by an unofficial "Georgia Bulldogs Football" account on YouTube. This catch is comparable -- maybe even more insane -- than the one he made against Cleveland. Check it out HERE.
Social media blew up over the rookie Pickens' catch against the Browns, and the comparisons immediately went to the one-handed catch that Odell Beckham Jr. made during his rookie season in 2014.
Beckham even chimed in on Twitter in reacting to Pickens' play:
THIS CATCH IS FILTHY
— Odell Beckham Jr (@obj) September 23, 2022
Pickens said he saw those comparisons, and he knew once he made the play that he did something special like Beckham did.
"OBJ is, like, one of my favorite players, so even if I do say it's better, I'll low-key say that it's not," Pickens said. "That means a lot. Stuff like that means more to me, you know what I mean? Because that's my favorite player. One of my favorite players in terms of catching crazy stuff. He can catch anything. He used to catch slants one-handed."
Pickens made insane plays during his days at Georgia, and he credited some of the build that the Bulldogs' program has recently experienced as helping boost the notoriety of him making plays as a pro, such as the one against Cleveland.
"I'd probably say it's a combination of both," Pickens said. "Since Georgia is a big deal right now in the college football world, plus me going to UGA, plus the catch. All at the same time. So I feel like it's a whole pile of stuff that just made it extra, extra hype."
Check out a few more of Pickens' highlight-reel catches from his days playing at Georgia:
• In the College Football Playoff National Championship Game against Alabama:
• His diving grab in the 2021 Peach Bowl against Cincinnati:
• And, this adjustment and catch in traffic in the SEC Championship Game against Alabama:
