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[QUOTE=grotonsteel;505820]I like the draft picks BuckeyeHoppy except Rd 1 pick. High Points for drafting OT and OG as high draft picks.Not a Hightower fan to be frank. I just don't think he would have been successful if he was on a less talented team. I don't see a game changer in him. I just wished Steelers had taken Sean Lee instead of jason Worilds.
But again if Steelers and you think he is the BPA at 1-24 i am all for that pick.[/QUOTE]
FWIW, I've seen Massie on one or two mock drafts in the first round. Mind you, it wasn't as high as the Steelers pick. But my logic has always been that a pick isn't a reach if you need the player and his talent for what you need is somewhere in the ball park of the pick. The draft order is what it is. Every year, there is at least one or two players in the first round who go to a team with a specific need who wouldn't have been picked in the next half dozen or more picks afterward.
I mentioned Martin as an option in the 1st. But I am more sold on Massie because he can do more and allows many more options for the Steelers. TBH, I haven't paid much attention to OLB. But I'd much rather have Brown over Upshaw as a first rounder. Also, someone like Irvin from West Virginia would have some appeal around the 3rd Round.
One thing to keep in mind: 20% of any team is taken up by the OL. If you really need quality players on your line (let's face it: the Steelers probably do) then using high draft picks for the line becomes a necessity. If your line is okay, then you can get away with a couple at the end of the draft and if they pan out, great. Also, because we run the 3-4, LBs are also a priority. And, as the saying goes, you can never have too many good LBs. That's particularly true with the Steelers.
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[QUOTE=Oviedo;505804]I agree and I may have come to that conclusion a little sooner but I am always a bit concerned about what we see from someone who surrounded by unbelieveable talent like the 'Bama defense. Same concern about Courtney Upshaw. These guys just had such a collective talent advantage over the competition you wonder what they could do against those more talented than them.
That said I really don't think it will be Hightower. Just too logical a choice so I'll pick another Colbert curveball.[/QUOTE]
We could be looking at a curve ball, Ovie. It looks like the Steelers could be looking to move Worilds inside. There's always a chance that someone like Glenn could be there when we are on the clock (that doesn't appear likely now, but who knows?). We'll see. After the middle of the 2nd, there's a really precipitous drop off in talent quality at ILB. Seeing that we draft near the bottom of each round, that was where most of my logic was in a Hightower choice. But the Steelers have a very good 1st Round track record under Colbert, so who am I to argue with their choice? Like I said, we'll see.
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[QUOTE=MeetJoeGreene;505797]I have never in my life done a mock draft. I don't have the guts. That is why I started out (on the old triblive board) giving people props for their mock draft via my original "that is an excellent mock draft" line. It seemed that most people that put themeselves out there and did a mock draft just got trashed for it and I wanted to provide a bit of positive props for everyone that had the stones to do one. I have never done one and probably won't ever do one.[/QUOTE]
I can see the logic, MJG. It's all good, as I know you're a diehard anyway. It's something I get up for every year, so I figure that I have nothing to lose in putting it out there. BTW, I need to make my travel arrangements for the home games this year. Earmarking the Philly and Baltimore games! Nothing in concrete yet, tho.