Originally Posted by
steelsnis
He doesn't like Worilds for the same reason he doesn't like Timmons. He was reportedly a "Tomlin Pick" at draft time. He's been railing against those guys since they were drafted. It fits his Tomlin stinks agenda.
Since Tomlin was hired, here are the Steelers Draft Picks still playing in the NFL (many are starters):
2007:
Lawrence Timmons
Lamar Woodley
Matt Spaeth
William Gay
2008:
Rashard Mendenhall
Dennis Dixon
Ryan Mundy
2009:
Ziggy Hood
Kraig Urbik
Mike Wallace
Keenan Lewis
Frank Summers
AQ Shipley
David Johnson
2010:
Maurkice Pouncey
Jason Worilds
Manny Sanders
Stevenson Sylvester
Jonathan Dwyer
Antonio Brown
2011:
Cam Heyward
Marcus Gilbert
Curtis Brown
Cortez Allen
Chris Carter
2012:
Dave Decastro
Mike Adams
Sean Spence
Alameda Ta'aumu
David Paulson
Kelvin Beachum
2013:
Jarvis Jones
Leveon Bell
Markus Wheaton
Shamarko Thomas
Landry Jones
Vince Williams
(Practice Squad: Justin Brown, Nick Williams)
Now personally, I think Colbert is absolutely the man behind the draft and anyone who thinks otherwise is delusional IMO. But if you insist on labeling Tomlin as responsible for all draft failures/successes since he's been here, there are quite a few successes on this board. Still way to early to label the 2012 and 2013 classes but it looks like some really good players are going to emerge from those groups too.
Sure there are misses along the way (Sweed, Bruce Davis) but no one hits on every player in every draft. Colbert has been remarkably successful through the Cowher/Tomlin years.
If this year has shown us ANYTHING at all, it should be that we can't be too quick to judge a player based on his first couple of years in the league. Heyward and Worilds both have shown us that.
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