And With the 17th Overall Pick, the Steelers Choose....

[feltdizz]

Sorry Ronaih... Nix and the DL are the real stars of this D.

[feltdizz]

I can't believe how badly they're killing this kid in the media. I saw a clip where Katie Couric asked him if he was gay. The media kinda sucks.

The one thing I have noticed about him is he looks a little bit pudgy and like he might be a little slow. None of this stuff is helping him in the draft at all.

Its a weird story and it keeps evolving. IMO he needs to stop talking about it but I'm not sure he can. Its all he talked about anytime he was interviewd and the media fell in love with the story.

His stock was dropping before the hoax after the Bama game according to Gil Brandt.

[Dee Dub]

Its a weird story and it keeps evolving. IMO he needs to stop talking about it but I'm not sure he can. Its all he talked about anytime he was interviewd and the media fell in love with the story.

His stock was dropping before the hoax after the Bama game according to Gil Brandt.

You are amazing. You are just like the media. Always twisting things in favor of what you want to believe or have heard. Gil Brandt? Really? He's got him dropping so much he has him listed as the 12 overall player in this entire draft.



12) Manti Te'o, LB, Notre Dame:Te'o finished his senior season with 113 tackles and seven interceptions (that latter number is unheard of for a linebacker). He did not play well in the BCS Championship Game, but [URL="http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap1000000123757/article/manti-teo-still-firstround-pick-despite-rough-bcs-title-game"]everything he's done in his career at Notre Dame[/URL] overrides that


http://www.nfl.com/draft/story/0ap1000000126798/article/luke-joeckel-bjoern-werner-headline-2013-nfl-draft-prospects

[Oviedo]

You are amazing. You are just like the media. Always twisting things in favor of what you want to believe or have heard. Gil Brandt? Really? He's got him dropping so much he has him listed as the 12 overall player in this entire draft.



12) Manti Te'o, LB, Notre Dame:Te'o finished his senior season with 113 tackles and seven interceptions (that latter number is unheard of for a linebacker). He did not play well in the BCS Championship Game, but [URL="http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap1000000123757/article/manti-teo-still-firstround-pick-despite-rough-bcs-title-game"]everything he's done in his career at Notre Dame[/URL] overrides that


http://www.nfl.com/draft/story/0ap1000000126798/article/luke-joeckel-bjoern-werner-headline-2013-nfl-draft-prospects

It is very possible T'eo will be on the board near where we are going to pick. I still have no issue with taking him. If we ruled out every college player who ever did something stupid we would never draft anyone.

[feltdizz]

You are amazing. You are just like the media. Always twisting things in favor of what you want to believe or have heard. Gil Brandt? Really? He's got him dropping so much he has him listed as the 12 overall player in this entire draft.



12) Manti Te'o, LB, Notre Dame:Te'o finished his senior season with 113 tackles and seven interceptions (that latter number is unheard of for a linebacker). He did not play well in the BCS Championship Game, but [URL="http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap1000000123757/article/manti-teo-still-firstround-pick-despite-rough-bcs-title-game"]everything he's done in his career at Notre Dame[/URL] overrides that


http://www.nfl.com/draft/story/0ap1000000126798/article/luke-joeckel-bjoern-werner-headline-2013-nfl-draft-prospects

Well... maybe it was another Gil Brandt or a hoax but he dropped him to 19th and said his stock was dropping before the story broke. Players rise and fall all the time... dont get mad at me, get mad at Gil.

[url]http://www.staradvertiser.com/sports/20130118_draft_guru_teos_stock_took_hit_before_hoa x.html?id=187422101&mobile=true[/url]

[Dee Dub]

Well... maybe it was another Gil Brandt or a hoax but he dropped him to 19th and said his stock was dropping before the story broke. Players rise and fall all the time... dont get mad at me, get mad at Gil.

[URL]http://www.staradvertiser.com/sports/20130118_draft_guru_teos_stock_took_hit_before_hoa x.html?id=187422101&mobile=true[/URL]

19th is still showing as a pretty good football player. It is still a first round pick.

[supersteeler]

I'll take A.J. kLEIN in the 6th, get him with a reasonable contract and you'll see a machine out there making tackles left and right. This has nothing to do with anything outside of football, T'eo is a good football player but he may be overrated and not worth selecting early when we have other needs.

There is a good chance his stock will fall in the draft because teams are looking for OLB's pass rushers more than ILB 's. Normally, ILB, Guards are not the premium positions teams are looing for especially in this pass happy league. CB's, Pass rushers,and D-line seem to be the first choice by most teams while ILB's are down the list.
Same with the Guard position, teams are looking for Tackles more than Guards on the o-line and, receivers,TE, s QB's on offense.

I'm not knocking T'eo, but for us a top BPA corner or OLB early may be the ticket, we can get an ILB later in the draft.

[feltdizz]

I'm not an ND fan but if the TE is available and it isnt a reach I would pick him at 17. We need weapons...

[feltdizz]

I'll take A.J. kLEIN in the 6th, get him with a reasonable contract and you'll see a machine out there making tackles left and right. This has nothing to do with anything outside of football, T'eo is a good football player but he may be overrated and not worth selecting early when we have other needs.

There is a good chance his stock will fall in the draft because teams are looking for OLB's pass rushers more than ILB 's. Normally, ILB, Guards are not the premium positions teams are looing for especially in this pass happy league. CB's, Pass rushers,and D-line seem to be the first choice by most teams while ILB's are down the list.
Same with the Guard position, teams are looking for Tackles more than Guards on the o-line and, receivers,TE, s QB's on offense.

I'm not knocking T'eo, but for us a top BPA corner or OLB early may be the ticket, we can get an ILB later in the draft.

I agree... but I have no problem knocking him. I dont think he is a first round talent or head and shoulders above the other ILB's in the draft.

[pfelix73]

Taking a QB in the first round of this year's draft would be a huge mistake....

[Mister Pittsburgh]

With the 17th pick the Pittsburgh Steelers: Come to agreement with Miami to trade pick 17 for their two second round picks and their 4th round pick.

[Oviedo]

With the 17th pick the Pittsburgh Steelers: Come to agreement with Miami to trade pick 17 for their two second round picks and their 4th round pick.

Why would Miami want to do that? There has to be a player they really want for them to make a move like that.

[feltdizz]

And like everything else in this matter you are wrong about this too. You jump to judge and are so quick to assume and believe in the wrong that the truth often passes you right by.

Relatives of Tino Tuiasosopo, a woman in her mid-20s who lives in Pago Pago, American Samoa, told the New York Post that Te'o has been speaking to her."Tino is the girl that Manti has been talking to all these months," said a Tuiasosopo cousin, according to the Post.

[URL]http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/8880021/ronaiah-tuiasosopo-cousin-was-voice-talking-manti-teo-report[/URL]

LOL...

[url]http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaaf-dr-saturday/ronaiah-tuiasosopo-tells-dr-phil-believes-te-o-161825943--ncaaf.html[/url]

The Manti Te'o story is nearing its merciful conclusion, and one of the final pieces of the story is now fitting into place.
In an interview with Dr. Phil scheduled to air Thursday and Friday, Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, the mastermind of the hoax that ensnared Te'o for several years, spoke publicly for the first time about a story that has captured national attention and [URL="http://www.usatoday.com/story/gameon/2013/01/30/dr-phil-ronaiah-tuiasosopo-confused-sexual-identity/1876995/"]admitted that he fell "deeply, romantically in love" [/URL]with Te'o over the course of the scam.
"I asked him, straight up, was this a romantic relationship with you?" Dr. Phil McGraw said on NBC's Today. "And he says, 'yes.' I then said, are you then, therefore, gay? He says, 'Well, when you put it that way, yes.' And then, he caught himself and said, 'I am confused.'"

However, Tuiasosopo emphatically denied that Te'o was in any way involved with the scam. He noted that while Te'o and "Lennay Kekua" would "break up," Tuiasosopo himself would find a way to reunite them: "There were many times where Manti and Lennay had broken up, but something would bring them back together, whether it was something going on in his life or in Lennay's life, in this case in my life."

Tuiasosopo still contends that it's his voice on the famous voicemail recordings, not a cousin. That may be the only mystery still left in this story, one which has now reached its natural end.



So... who do we believe and honestly... does it really matter? I'm confused...

both these dudes are gay.... not that there is anything wrong with that. This $^%#$ is CRAZY! Stay away from this guy.. he will destroy a locker room.

[SteelerOfDeVille]

Better than James Farrior, and he was a 1st rounder... Anyway...

pet peeve of mine... no, he's not better than James Farrior... not until he proves it in the NFL... none of the college players are...

now, carry on.

[pfelix73]

True. Even I get caught up in this trying to project a college kid and what he can do in the NFL. Wording should have been- projected to be better than.. James Farrior, who was a 1st round pick.

I've always said year after year that the draft is always a crap shoot or a box of chocolates- ya never know what you're gonna get...