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DT Ryan "Big Grease" Pickett (Super Bowl Champion)

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Passion fuels steady Pickett still going strong after 12 years
Jun. 10, 2013
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Standing near the locker he?s called home for the past seven years, Ryan Pickett can appreciate the irony in a man listed at 6-foot-2, 338 pounds claiming to be in the best shape of his career.

?I?m a lot leaner. Well?? smiled Pickett, catching himself before glancing over to teammate Jordan Miller a few lockers down and finishing his thought.

?I guess I?m a little more ripped up this year,? Pickett finally quipped to Miller?s amusement before uncorking his own deep, bellowing laugh at the self-deprecating jab.

At 33 years, eight months and three days old, Pickett is the sixth oldest defensive lineman signed to an NFL roster. The law of averages should have claimed him years ago much like it has many of his contemporaries from the 2001 NFL draft class.

Instead, Pickett has bordered on being irreplaceable for the Green Bay Packers.

In today?s NFL, a game that continually favors posterity, 13th-year defensive linemen aren?t exactly hot commodities, but Pickett has found sanctuary as a focal point of Dom Capers? 3-4 defense.

Always dependable and rarely injured, Pickett has made a career of eating up double-teams and stuffing the run. The unique skill-set enabled him this past year to become the oldest defensive lineman to start for the Packers since Reggie White retired after the 1998 season.

Many have tried to duplicate the longevity ? dominant in their time linemen like Gilbert Brown, Grady Jackson, Santana Dotson and Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila ? but none saw the other side of 32 years old in a Packers? uniform.

Except for Pickett.

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DL Ryan Pickett still going strong, now the Packers? oldest player
By Associated Press, Updated: Friday, August 16

GREEN BAY, Wis. ? The departures of receiver Donald Driver and defensive back Charles Woodson in the offseason gave Ryan Pickett a new title with the Green Bay Packers.

While B.J. Raji gets the headlines when it comes to the Packers? defensive line, alongside him is the durable Pickett, who goes into his 13th NFL season as the oldest player on the roster at the age of 33.

With the Packers playing their second preseason game at St. Louis on Saturday night, Pickett returns to where his lengthy career started when he was one of the Rams? first-round draft picks in 2001. Pickett isn?t getting sentimental about playing his former team in the Edward Jones Dome, something he?s done a few times since leaving St. Louis and signing as a free agent with the Packers in 2006.

?I?ve been here so long I?d forgotten about (playing for) St. Louis, really,? Pickett said Thursday. ?It?s just another game for me.?

Having played more than 200 games as a pro ? from preseason to the regular season to the playoffs ? Pickett is looking forward to many more. He wants to keep playing past this season after his four-year contract with the Packers runs out.

?This won?t be my last year playing,? Pickett said.

And Pickett isn?t ready to leave Green Bay, where he?s been a run-stuffing mainstay in the starting lineup and has a home with his wife and their six young children.

?I?d love to stay here, absolutely,? Pickett said.

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Packers' Ryan Pickett a big influence to young teammates
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Mark Hoffman

Ryan Pickett

By Rob Reischel, for the Journal Sentinel

Sept. 17, 2013

Green Bay — Ryan Pickett is as surprised as anyone that he's in this position.

Sage. Adviser. Counselor. Teacher.

Here Pickett is, less than a month away from his 34th birthday, as the grand old man of the Green Bay Packers. And Pickett's young understudies on Green Bay's defensive line can't imagine life without him.

"We call him Uncle Pick," second-year defensive end Mike Daniels said. "It's an old joke. But also it's true.

"He's so helpful, in all ways and facets of life. Advice, kids, wife, girlfriend, football. Everything you can possibly think of being helpful, that's Pickett."

Nose tackle B.J. Raji is in his fifth season and is one of the more experienced players on Green Bay's roster. But there are plenty of times each season Raji turns to Pickett when he needs answers.

"He's definitely helped me a lot," Raji said. "He's told me what to look for in certain situations, how to use my hands and things like that.

"I think it's just his experience. He knows how to play certain blocks and knows when teams are in certain formations and what tendencies are. He plays tendencies really well. And he's a huge help for all the younger guys, no matter what you need."

That's because someway, somehow, Pickett has become the "old guy" in the Packer locker room. And he admits, it's a bit overwhelming.

Once a baby-faced pup who left Ohio State after his junior year at 21 years old, Pickett is now the oldest player on Green Bay's roster.

Pickett, in the midst of his 13th NFL season, is the most experienced player on the Packer roster. And only Aaron Rodgers has been in Green Bay longer than Pickett, who signed a free agent deal with the Packers in 2006.

"It goes quick, man, real quick," said Pickett, a first-round draft pick of the St. Louis Rams in 2001. "Sometimes it feels like I just got here."

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