A decade of overdrafting

[WindyCitySteel]

This is how you go from contender to pretender. Not counting 2023, too soon for Jones, hope he breaks the mold like Watt did.

2022: Pickett
2021: Najee
2020: Claypool
2019: Bush
2018: Edmunds
2017: Watt
2016: Burns
2015: Dupree
2014: Shazier
2013: Jarvis

A couple great picks in Watt and Shazier, good pick in Dupree, the rest look like reaches. Look at the last five years. Yikes.

[hawaiiansteel]

Fire Colbert!

[feltdizz]

Fire Colbert!

lmaooooo.

Now this is hilarious

[Joel Buchsbaum]

This is how you go from contender to pretender. Not counting 2023, too soon for Jones, hope he breaks the mold like Watt did.

2022: Pickett
2021: Najee
2020: Claypool
2019: Bush
2018: Edmunds
2017: Watt
2016: Burns
2015: Dupree
2014: Shazier
2013: Jarvis

A couple great picks in Watt and Shazier, good pick in Dupree, the rest look like reaches. Look at the last five years. Yikes.

Form 2015-2021, outside of Watt who is brilliant that are some busts and disappointments. Not guys you can build around.

[NorthCoast]

It's not a good record for sure and it's a primary reason why they are where they are today. I posted a writeup that rated teams drafts for the last decade (too lazy to go back and find) and it had the Steelers exactly average (16th). And this is exactly the team they have today...AVERAGE. Without the Watt pick it would have been way worse.

(I'll give the org credit for the Claypool pick in turning it into a potential blockbuster with JPJ)

[whatever]

You are going to get a bunch of resistance.
All our drafts have been great/good. Most of our fans graded them As and Bs.
Only a few of us had criticisms of our selections.

[SteelerOfDeVille]

I'm gonna take exception with Shazier....I will argue till I'm blue in the face

And his last 2 years? Bud was damn good, just not the salary he was asking for. I think scheme and injury hurt him in TN

[SteelerOfDeVille]

You are going to get a bunch of resistance.
All our drafts have been great/good. Most of our fans graded them As and Bs.
Only a few of us had criticisms of our selections.

I don't think you'll get as much resistance as you might think - especially from Edmunds forward when most of us wanted not only different people, but entirely different positions. That's why there are so many B's. "Ya filled a position of need, just not the position or guy I wanted"

If 2023 tanks, most of us are on the hook for liking that draft. Myself, I would have made only one change through 4 rounds. Once ILB started popping off the board in the 3rd, I would have traded up and got Dorian Williams (ILB) instead of sitting and getting Washington.

[Chadman]

A complete neglect of the trenches in the first round in 10 years.

Have the overall drafts been bad?

No.

But, 'reaches' in the 1st round do appear apparent.

Where I will dispute is actually Pickett & Najee. If anything, Pickett has proven to be the best QB of the expected early round QB's and is still too early to write off. Najee is a victim of poor calling & poor OL play combined. Is he a GREAT pick? No. But, I think he was a fine selection where he was (and he wasn't the guy I wanted, so there's that).

Watt & Shazier were outstanding picks.

Edmunds, not as BAD as some might tell you, was a bad reach. Jarvis Jones was a bust. Devon Bush set the franchise back- BAD selection & to trade up...the FO decided they wanted an ILB to 'be Shazier', regardless of if there was a player up to it or not.

For mine- Bush is the absolute worst of the picks.

[whatever]

I don't think you'll get as much resistance as you might think - especially from Edmunds forward when most of us wanted not only different people, but entirely different positions. That's why there are so many B's. "Ya filled a position of need, just not the position or guy I wanted"

If 2023 tanks, most of us are on the hook for liking that draft. Myself, I would have made only one change through 4 rounds. Once ILB started popping off the board in the 3rd, I would have traded up and got Dorian Williams (ILB) instead of sitting and getting Washington.

Yea, maybe in hindsight but not when those players were drafted.
Even if most were Bs, how can a decade of B drafts along with the best HC in the league, result in 3 playoff wins?

[SteelerOfDeVille]

Yea, maybe in hindsight but not when those players were drafted.
Even if most were Bs, how can a decade of B drafts along with the best HC in the league, result in 3 playoff wins?

Not hindsight for me. I've wanted trenches for the better part of a decade. That's why I liked this past draft so much. They prioritized OL and DL...

But, then that's why I do DeVille does the offseason. So when we hit discussions like this, I already put it out there.

2022, they got the consensus best QB (in a weak draft) and 2 solid WR. The selection of Leal bumped it a full grade for me (I mocked him a round earlier).

2021, I mocked a C and OT on day 1 and 2 as most did...

[Joel Buchsbaum]

Colbert drafted 16 or 17 Pro bowl players. I stack that resume up vs ANY general manager.

Having said that, his last few years as a Steeler have been uneven.

[Steel Maniac]

This is how you go from contender to pretender. Not counting 2023, too soon for Jones, hope he breaks the mold like Watt did.

2022: Pickett
2021: Najee
2020: Claypool
2019: Bush
2018: Edmunds
2017: Watt
2016: Burns
2015: Dupree
2014: Shazier
2013: Jarvis

A couple great picks in Watt and Shazier, good pick in Dupree, the rest look like reaches. Look at the last five years. Yikes.

Colbert did us no favors those last few years. I guess he checked out in a lot of ways. Burns was a flat out panic pick after Colbert/Tomlin told everyone who would listen on how they wanted Jackson. And the Bengals stuck it to them by taking Jackson just before them. But even if we had gotten Jackson, he too would have been a bust pick.

[whatever]

Not hindsight for me. I've wanted trenches for the better part of a decade. That's why I liked this past draft so much. They prioritized OL and DL...

But, then that's why I do DeVille does the offseason. So when we hit discussions like this, I already put it out there.

2022, they got the consensus best QB (in a weak draft) and 2 solid WR. The selection of Leal bumped it a full grade for me (I mocked him a round earlier).

2021, I mocked a C and OT on day 1 and 2 as most did...

Well, you, me an a few others wanted to address the lines.
Plenty will now now jump on and say they wanted it too.
Not sure I remember too many giving out Cs and Ds tho when the organization drafted all those other positions instead of the lines.

[whatever]

Colbert did us no favors those last few years. I guess he checked out in a lot of ways. Burns was a flat out panic pick after Colbert/Tomlin told everyone who would listen on how they wanted Jackson. And the Bengals stuck it to them by taking Jackson just before them. But even if we had gotten Jackson, he too would have been a bust pick.

Quit blaming Colbert.
As many Tomlin supporters have said when a player flops, ‘ it is a team decision on who gets selected’