2012 Steelers How Assembled Chart

[Fanatic24]

Cool feature on how the 2012 Steelers were assembled.

2012 NFL How Assembled Charts

[flippy]

Interesting. This team really is getting young and it's a little scary how the stars on this team are mostly at the top of the chart and are getting so old.

[eniparadoxgma]

That link was dead when I tried it. Is this what it was: http://www.profootballrosters.com/20...-depth-chart/?

[Fanatic24]

That link was dead when I tried it. Is this what it was: http://www.profootballrosters.com/20...-depth-chart/?

Here's the link.

http://www.profootballrosters.com/20...embled-charts/

[RuthlessBurgher]

They publish this in Steelers Digest every so often. What I don't understand is the difference between the 10 free agents and the 4 unrestricted free agents (seems like those should be combined together)...I realize why there is a need to distinguish among players we drafted, college free agents, unrestricted free agents, restricted free agents, players we claimed off waivers, and players we traded for, but I don't see the need for that extra column simply marked "free agents"...looks like the unrestricted free agents were signed before the draft, and the free agents were signed after the draft...that's the only difference that I could come up with.

[Fanatic24]

They publish this in Steelers Digest every so often. What I don't understand is the difference between the 10 free agents and the 4 unrestricted free agents (seems like those should be combined together)...I realize why there is a need to distinguish among players we drafted, college free agents, unrestricted free agents, restricted free agents, players we claimed off waivers, and players we traded for, but I don't see the need for that extra column simply marked "free agents"...looks like the unrestricted free agents were signed before the draft, and the free agents were signed after the draft...that's the only difference that I could come up with.

From what I was told the Unrestriced Free Agent is anyone who was signed after their current contract was up, these are usually the bigger contract type guys, the straight 'free agent' is a player who was signed after being cut before their current contract had expired, usually cap casualty type guys.