Steelers' Kenny Pickett leaves game with ankle injury - ESPN

PITTSBURGH — Quarterback Kenny Pickett sustained an ankle injury midway through the second quarter of the Pittsburgh Steelers' game against the Arizona Cardinals and will not return. Quarterback Mitch Trubisky will take over for the second half.

Pickett injured his ankle when he kept the ball on third down near the Steelers' goal line and scrambled forward, diving for the end zone. Cardinals defensive lineman Jonathan Ledbetter dove to tackle Pickett from behind, pinning the quarterback's left ankle as he came down. Pickett also entered the game with right ankle discomfort sustained in the win against the Cincinnati Bengals.

Pickett tried to get up after Ledbetter's hit, but dropped back to the ground and athletic trainers ran out to him. He eventually walked off the field mostly under his own power with a limp.

After being evaluated in the sideline blue medical tent, Pickett went back to the locker for the rest of the second quarter, and he was ruled out before play resumed following a severe weather delay during halftime.

Trubisky came on for 4th-and-goal from the 1 immediately after Pickett's injury. The Steelers failed to punch it in when running back Najee Harris was stopped short of the goal line. The Cardinals then went on a 99-yard scoring drive to take a 10-3 lead into halftime.

Pickett has exited two other games early with injury this season. Pickett sustained a bone bruise late in the third quarter of the Week 4 loss to the Houston Texans and a ribs injury just before halftime of the Week 8 loss to the Jaguars. Trubisky finished each of those games for the Steelers. For his two appearances, Trubisky is 18-of-32 for 156 yards with one touchdown and two interceptions.

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