Steelers WR Pickens jabs Browns CB Newsome ahead of rematch - ESPN

PITTSBURGH — Greg Newsome? George Pickens doesn't know him — or at least that's what the Steelers receiver said days away from a rematch with the Cleveland Browns.

The Steelers' Week 12 loss to the Browns was punctuated by a scuffle between the receiver and the Browns defensive back during a game-ending Hail Mary attempt.

Asked if he would talk to Newsome before Sunday's game in Pittsburgh, Pickens was dismissive.

«I don't even know who that is,» the Steelers' third-year receiver said Friday afternoon.

Pickens also doubled-down on his postgame assertion that he didn't think the Browns «are a good team at all.»

«I just go by the record,» he said.

Pickens and Newsome were engaged with each other as they ran down the field toward the snowy end zone during that Thursday night game, and Pickens appeared to drag Newsome out of the end zone during the play. Pickens continued the altercation with Newsome against the retaining wall separating stadium seats from the field until security and stadium personnel pulled the wide receiver away from Newsome.

After the game, Newsome called Pickens a «fake tough guy,» and Friday he responded to Pickens' latest comments and addressed how he's going to handle a trash-talk filled rematch.

«I'm all about the team,» Newsome said. «Obviously he's a guy that cares more so about himself, and you can see that in the penalties he causes. For me, my job is to try and do whatever I can to help the team win. There's never going to be no one on one battle for me. My battle is to try and help my team get the win.»

«He does that type of stuff all the time. There will never be a man that could fuel me in any type of way.»

Neither Pickens nor Newsome were fined by the league for the Hail Mary altercation,