Originally Posted by
RuthlessBurgher
The team roster on the Steelers official website offers a clue. Cortez Allen and Keenan Lewis are listed specifically as CB, while Curtis Brown is listed as the more generic DB. ([URL]http://www.steelers.com/team/roster.html[/URL]). However, I think we keep them all at corner.
On offense, the team drafted a trio of young receivers in Wallace, Brown, and Sanders who could lead us into the future when Steeler fixture Hines Ward moved on.
On defense, the team drafted a trio of young corners in Lewis, Allen, and Brown who could lead us into the future when Steeler fixture Ike Taylor moves on.
I think we get by for another year with Mundy as the primary backup to both Troy and Clark (although I think that Will Allen could potentially be replaced by Robert Golden, Myron Rolle, or Da'Mon Cromartie-Smith). I think we keep 6 corners in Ike Taylor, Keenan Lewis, Cortez Allen, Curtis Brown, Terrence Frederick, and Terry Carter.
I think we use one of our top two picks in the 2013 for a future starting safety, since Clark and Troy are both starting to get up there is age (and maybe draft a second safety as well...we seem to be successful drafting in pairs...2007 LB: Timmons and Woodley, 2010 WR: Sanders and Brown, 2011 CB: Brown and Allen, 2012 OL: DeCastro and Adams). Unlike last year, when there was a huge dropoff in safety talent after Alabama's Mark Barron and Notre Dame's Harrison Smith, the 2013 safety crop appears to be much deeper.
Senior safety prospects for the 2013 draft include USC's T.J. McDonald, Alabama's Robert Lester, Georgia's Bacarri Rambo, Miami's Ray Ray Armstrong, and Texas' Kenny Vaccaro. Juniors safeties who may declare in 2013 include LSU's Eric Reid, Oklahoma's Tony Jefferson, Florida's Matt Elam, and even LSU's undersized fireplug Honey Badger Mathieu might be able to make the transition to safety on the next level as well.
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