I don't see how anyone who watched him this year could think he could be a forward pocket; a flanker, sure, but a goal kicking, hard tackling small forward? The Paul Puopolo/Cyril Rioli low possession/high impact player?
To be that sort of footballer, you need a number of things, but one of the most important is a little bit of selfishness. You need to not just be the one to kick the goals, but you almost have to want to take them off your teammates, to burn them at the risk of taking glory into your own hands. It's in almost believing that you're the only one who can do it, and so you take every single opportunity; you hoard them, you do the spectacular over the specific or the unselfish.
Pickett's not that player, despite having the attributes physically, and that's not a bad thing. He doesn't have that selfish bone in him, he constantly looks for his teammates, and brings them into the game with his own singularly incredible disposal. I saw one of the games he played VFL - where he looked as though he wasn't even playing on the same ground as the opposition, let alone playing the same game - where he read a tap straight off Phillips hand, took it within the stoppage, and speared a fifty/sixty metre pass to a player who was almost genuinely in the centre of the ground when he kicked it, but was drawn 40 metres to the ball drop where he marked unopposed. He was literally out before he knew it, drawn into the perfect position by a one touch player with a perfect kick.
He doesn't shape as a small forward for mine; he shapes as an good outside midfielder at worst, but an in/out linebreaker like Daniel Wells at best, and the best bit about all of it is that he has the work ethic - granted, given only this year as a sample size - to achieve.