Rutgers Athletics Hall of Fame
Pickel won four letters at Rutgers from 1979-82. He earned Honorable Mention AP All-East honors in his junior year (1981), despite missing five games with a back injury, but still recorded 58 tackles and four sacks. The winner of the David Bender Trophy as the team's best lineman in 1982, the Cronin Trophy (most improved) in 1980 and the Touchdown Club Trophy in 1982, he ranks sixth in career sacks with 16 as well as 10th on the career unassisted tackles list with 160. A starter with the Raiders and Jets during his 13-year career, he is the owner of a Super Bowl championship ring with the Raiders in 1984.
