We are just over an hour away until the official start of the draft. Let's dedicate this weekend's impressive draft haul to the memory of Mr. Rooney. We are about to welcome 8 guys (plus several more UDFA) into the Steeler family. Let's add some excellent football players and quality men onto our roster...Go get 'em, boys! Wooooo!!!!!!
Steeler teams featuring stat-driven, me-first, fantasy-football-darling diva types such as Antonio Brown & Le'Veon Bell won no championships.
Super Bowl winning Steeler teams were built around a dynamic, in-your-face defense plus blue-collar, hard-hitting, no-nonsense football players on offense such as Hines Ward & Jerome Bettis.
We don't want Juju & Conner to replace what we lost in Brown & Bell.
We are counting on Juju & Conner to return us to the glory we once had with Hines & The Bus.
The one thing about this Conley mess....If he is as innocent as he claims....then can a team GM insist that they ask Conley to have a Polygraph test done ? I mean this is not 1977..and your Grandpa's Lie Detector device. These ones today are 100 % accurate. I mean if " Maury " says you had sex with a girl...you HAD Sex with herSo why not just agree to a Polygraph, and see what the results are ? Makes perfect sense to me for Conley and his agent to agree...I mean IF he is Innocent and all.
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A bit of a surprise, but I’m hearing #OleMiss TE Evan Engram is making a push to sneak into the 1st round. Could see three TEs in round 1.
Hmm.....Pittsburgh ???
Report: Jabrill Peppers will be available for Steelers:
Michigan safety Jabrill Peppers will be available when the Steelers are on the board with the 30th pick.
That's according to NFL Network's Lance Zierlein, who is reporting that Peppers will still be there for the taking at the end of the first round of the NFL Draft.
"I don't expect Michigan's Jabrill Peppers to free-fall in this draft, but there were several teams who simply weren't carrying first-round grades on him even before information on his diluted sample from the NFL Scouting Combine came out," Zierlein wrote of Peppers' draft status. "I spoke with a few teams who all believe that the Steelers at No. 30 might be his best chance to land in the first round."
Several prominent mock drafts have predicted that the Steelers will take Jabrill Peppers with the 30th pick in the 2017 NFL Draft. (Photo: Rick Osentoski, USA TODAY Sports)
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Despite his ability to play multiple positions that includes linebacker, safety, running back and kickoff/punt returner, Peppers' lack of statistics (he recorded just one career interception while failing to force or recover a fumble) have been held against him in the weeks leading up to the draft. Last week, Michigan defensive coordinator Jon Brown defended Peppers, who won the Big 10's Defensive Player of the Year award last season.
"Tremendous football IQ," Brown said of Peppers in an interview with ESPN.com. "So savvy. He can learn concepts. He'll be in the meeting room, and he'll put his hand up: 'Hey, coach, I've got two questions.' And bang-bang, it translates to the field. He's the best open-field tackler I've ever seen in my life.
"He's everything," Brown continued. "He can do anything he wants. Basically, I took my brightest guy and gave him a bunch of things to do, and he did them all, and he was great at them."
This is when I JUMP off a cliff!!
Garret on the Phone.
LETS GO MOUNTAINEERS!
Here We Go Steelers!
Stop milking it already Cleveland. Jesus, it's not like we all don't know who you are going to take. No wonder they're the Clowns!!
This will be an interesting and loooong night.
... and GO Penguins!!!
Congrats Clowns. You just took a guy # 1 who is not close to as good or as Athletic as our guy Bud Dupree who we took at # 22
No surprise there.
Bears traded up to #2
LETS GO MOUNTAINEERS!
Here We Go Steelers!
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