Pouncey Weigh-IN

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Re: Pouncey Weigh-IN

Short arms don't seem to be hurting Maurkice.

Someone will pick Mikey before our turn in the first round.

I agree someone will pick Pouncey II before our pick and I think they will realize very early they aren't getting Pouncey I.

IMO Pouncey I's success has inflated the perceived value of Pouncey II. If not for his brother's success Pouncey II would be rated as a early to mid Round 2 pick.

He's the consensus number one interior lineman - regardless of being Maurkice's twin or not. I believe that the success of Maurkice has definitely helped his brother out, but it hasn't lifted him from the second round into the first. I'm not even one of these draft gurus, but I can tell with 100% certainty you are undervaluing Mike Pouncey.

I coached against these guys in high school and I'm a die-hard Gator fan. I've seen them play for a long time and they are equal in almost every way that counts.

[NJ-STEELER]

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oh

the ravens could use a center

[hawaiiansteel]

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Another Pouncey unlikely for Steelers in NFL Draft

By Scott Brown, PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Saturday, February 26, 2011


INDIANAPOLIS — Steelers coaches who still can't distinguish between Maurkice and Mike Pouncey — they only look alike, sound alike and share the same mannerisms — probably won't have to do so on a regular basis in the coming seasons.

Mike Pouncey, all 6 feet 5 inches, 303 pounds of him, said Friday he does not expect the Steelers to select him in the NFL Draft in April.

Pouncey hopes to play center in the NFL, and the Steelers appear to be set there for the next decade with his identical twin. What is more problematic to the Steelers drafting Pouncey, who played guard at Florida before moving to center for his senior season: He figures to be gone before the Steelers pick 31st overall.

He has to be, he said with an easy laugh similar to Maurkice's, for the sake of sibling rivalry.

And if he isn't?

"I'd never hear the end of it," Mike Pouncey said.

The Steelers know it is a long shot that Mike, who is about two minutes older than Maurkice, will fall to them in the first round.

That hasn't stopped them from doing their due diligence a year after they took Maurkice with the 18th overall pick.

They interviewed Mike Pouncey on Thursday night, and he said offensive line coach Sean Kugler put him through a similar whiteboard session that his brother experienced a year ago.

Kugler diagrammed plays on a board and then erased it and had Pouncey draw up the same plays.

"They were very impressed," Pouncey said when asked how he did.

The Steelers have a need at guard but probably won't get a chance to consider Pouncey with their first-round pick because of how well his brother — who was named to the Pro Bowl — played as a rookie.

"I've never seen a situation with twin brothers so similar as players," Steelers director of football operations Kevin Colbert said. "We have a good indication of what that player will be like because of Maurkice, so we probably know a little bit more about him just because of our evaluation of Maurkice. I'm sure he's the same type of person that his brother is."

The two are nearly impossible to tell apart — at least to the untrained eye — making it no surprise that many people, including some Steelers coaches, mistook Mike for Maurkice when the two were in Dallas for the Super Bowl.

The Pounceys have won three state championships and a national championship together. But it's likely that a pursuit of a Super Bowl title will be separate endeavors for the brothers who talk to each other daily.

"Yeah, we talked about the chances (of playing together again)," Mike Pouncey said. "It's not looking too good, but there's free agency in the NFL, so you never know."

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