Steelers’ 2023 Draft Haul Earns A+ Grade From Pro Football Focus

[NorthCoast]

the score says "A+"

https://www.thescore.com/news/2636718

Grade: A+
The Steelers crushed this draft. All the attention will be on the Eagles for their first-round haul, but nobody had a more complete draft than Mike Tomlin and first-time GM Omar Khan. Jones is a freakish talent who brings limitless upside in filling Pittsburgh's most glaring need. Staying patient at the top of Round 2 to get a legacy pick in Porter Jr. takes care of the other must-have position (a selection acquired from Chicago last season in the robbery that was the Chase Claypool trade). From there, it was all about the best players. Benton, Washington, and Herbig are all future starters who could have been drafted much earlier than they were. Some teams simply draft better than others - there's a reason this team never falls off.

[NorthCoast]

btw, grades for the Bungles are ranging B+ to A so they are still gonna be a tough out. One site has them labeled as near "Elite Organization". Amazing what a franchise QB can do to turn a team around.

[Oviedo]

The draft is like a box of chocolates. But it looks good so far. You never know how it's going to play out though.

The Kahn, Tomlin, Weidl Triumvirate looks good in their first outing IMO.

Just needed to get Colbert out to quit holding them back

[Joel Buchsbaum]

All of the players we selected were "Steelers types" and BPA who represented "incredibly great value" where we drafted them.

quite frankly, it's amazing they were all even still available. pretty much, every single one of them was the "steal of the draft".

Steelers’ 2023 Draft Haul Earns A+ Grade From Pro Football Focus

https://steelersdepot.com/2023/04/st...medium=twitter

PITTSBURGH STEELERS

R1 (14): OT Broderick Jones, Georgia
R2 (49): DI Keeanu Benton, Wisconsin
R3 (93): TE Darnell Washington, Georgia
R4 (132): EDGE Nick Herbig, Wisconsin
R7 (241): CB Cory Trice Jr., Purdue
R7 (251): OG Spencer Anderson, Maryland

Day 1: The Steelers jump up three spots, giving up a fourth-round pick to make sure they land the offensive tackle they wanted. Jones impressed as a pass-blocker in 2022, earning a 84.1 PFF pass-blocking grade and allowing just nine total pressures from 470 pass-blocking snaps.

Day 2: Pittsburgh takes PFF’s CB4 and 21st-ranked prospect to open up Day 2 of the 2023 NFL Draft. Porter wins with his length. The former Nittany Lion’s 34-inch arms make it easy to disrupt his opponent at the catch point and line of scrimmage. Porter’s 40% forced incompletion rate in 2022 led all Power Five cornerbacks.

The Steelers take a top interior defender that can line up in the A and B gaps, with the Steelers able to move Cameron Heyward, Larry Ogunjobi and Benton across the interior. Benton will help a Steelers run defense that struggled in 2022 up the middle, with a strong 10.5% run-stop win rate in 2022.

The freaky Georgia tight end’s slide is over. Pittsburgh grabs the 6-foot-8, 272-pound Darnell Washington to continue their strong 2023 NFL Draft. He has a strong resume in the ground game, as his top-five finish among Power Five tight ends in run-blocking grade in 2022 proves, and is a mismatch weapon as a receiver.

Day 3: The Steelers’ incredible draft continues. Herbig played on the edge at Wisconsin but figures to be more of a tweener in the NFL, and that’s likely why he wasn’t a higher pick. He knows how to rush the passer, though, as he won 23.9% of his pass-rushing snaps in 2022 and earned a 91.1 pass-rush grade.

Ranked 77th on PFF's big board. Price is a physically imposing corner at 6-foot-3 who is extremely aggressive at the line of scrimmage and tackles well.

Anderson is the only pick by the Steelers where the player has been outside the top 80 of the PFF big board. Anderson produced a 79.8 PFF pass-blocking grade in 2022 but struggled as a run blocker.

DRAFT GRADE: A+

[NJ-STEELER]

Grabbing guys at the top of draft boards when they selected. ( Porter, Washington, trice and even herbig was up there) is different then how they pan out in a few years.

so it’s graded correctly based on that.
you dint see any dri archers or A McFarlands type of reaches

[NJ-STEELER]

Everyone liked the Sweed/Mendenhall draft as well, just sayin.

Pappy

I don’t remember much excitement after those 2.

bruce Davis, Tony hills, d Dixon. Meh

[hawaiiansteel]

Rave reviews of Steelers draft warranted

By JIM WEXELL

https://247sports.com/nfl/pittsburgh...NFL-209227305/

[crushedspirit]

Grabbing guys at the top of draft boards when they selected. ( Porter, Washington, trice and even herbig was up there) is different then how they pan out in a few years.

so it’s graded correctly based on that.
you dint see any dri archers or A McFarlands type of reaches

That last sentence is why this draft looks like more of a winner than years past.

[NorthCoast]

Just needed to get Colbert out to quit holding them back

As much as I liked Colbert it honestly felt like he was in "coast mode" the last few drafts. Like not enough homework being done in the mid rounds.

Can you honestly picture Colbert ringing up Belichick and saying "hey, the Jets are gonna take Jones at their pick unless you help us out with a trade".

Kahn Artist - he's got a nickname already in Yr1.

[Buzz]

I think this is a very good draft. Several if my target players were taken and aside from out 3rd round pick, I think we nailed it.

I'm pretty happy with our 3rd rounder, much more so than if he'd been taken at #17 or #32 or even #49
He has potential to be a stud and should immediately help out our run blocking

At this point, I can't complain about this draft.