Is the Safety Position the Steelers greatest need on defense ?

[Big Ern McCracken]

agreed. Troy is sure to miss at least half the year... so you may as well pencil in golden as the starter.

[Shoe]

Safety is clearly the greatest Steeler need. The Steelers will need to fill two spots in short order. Troy and Clark are big shoes to fill.

I think you misspoke here dude. How can it be our greatest need? We have a future HOF, and a guy coming off his best season yet. Granted, both have obviously question marks, but we have a lot more needs than Safety at this point. Personally, I'm way more concerned about our pedestrian D-line, our combination of laissez-faire Tackles (o-line), and no defined "@s$-kicker" on defense (i.e. Lloyd-->Porter-->Harrison).

[Chadman]

Finding Troy & Clark's eventual replacements doesn't necessarily require 2 top round draft picks, as the role they are asked to perform does not require them both to be as athletic as, say, Troy Polamalu.

But certainly one of the 2 will want to be an upper echelon type player.

Wouldn't surprise if a Round 2 pick is used on one of the 2 safety positions, with maybe a 5th or 6th spent on a thumper-type.

[Rara]

Phillip Thomas in the second would be great!

[steeler_fan_in_t.o.]

When was the last time Troy had a healthy season? As much as I like Golden, he is more than unproven at this junction.

2011....but I get the point

2012 - 7 games
2011 - 16 games
2010 - 14 games
2009 - 5 games
2008 - 16 games
2007 - 11 games
2006 - 13 games