The Steelers now officially have seven draft picks in this year’s draft.

[LordVile]

The Steelers now officially have seven draft picks in this year’s draft. Their original first four, this 6th round pick, their original 7th, and the 7th given to them in trading away Brad Wing to the New York Giants.

we received a compensatory 6th round pick for Brice McCain

[Iron City Inc.]

Pick 220 that is better then I thought we would get. Expected only a 7th. Good news.

[RuthlessBurgher]

Awesome. I expected only a 7th as well. Good news.

[Oviedo]

Nice to get a 6 versus 7, but players picked in either round don't have a great rate of success.

[squidkid]

Nice to get a 6 versus 7, but players picked in either round don't have a great rate of success.

except ours.
ours are always great picks, steals, quality depth with a few becoming starters

[RuthlessBurgher]

Nice to get a 6 versus 7, but players picked in either round don't have a great rate of success.

In the Colbert era, we were able to obtain the following players in the 6th or 7th round: L.T. Walton, Anthony Chickillo, Vince Williams, Kelvin Beachum, Antonio Brown, David Johnson, Ryan Mundy, Chris Kemoeatu, and Brett Keisel...not bad...not bad at all...

[Iron City Inc.]

In the Colbert era, we were able to obtain the following players in the 6th or 7th round: L.T. Walton, Anthony Chickillo, Vince Williams, Kelvin Beachum, Antonio Brown, David Johnson, Ryan Mundy, Chris Kemoeatu, and Brett Keisel...not bad...not bad at all...

Ruthless makes a good point we have had more hits then misses. Getting to meet Mike Mayock last summer at Latrobe and even though we spoke for all of a few minutes the concept of batting .500 with draft picks is what scouts are looking for. Lets face it you just never know for sure. Jarvis in the 1st n AB in the 6th just for example.

[SidSmythe]

I didn't see any 7th rounders given out this year.
Perhaps the league sees them as UDFA's and want to give some sort of value for losing a key player??

[phillyesq]

I didn't see any 7th rounders given out this year.
Perhaps the league sees them as UDFA's and want to give some sort of value for losing a key player??

Hmm, that is interesting. No 7th round comp picks at all this year. I wonder if some sort of rule change went into effect.

[url]http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000643671/article/nfl-awards-33-compensatory-picks-to-13-teams-for-2016-draft[/url]

The comp pick for McCain was the second to last awarded. In any event, a compensatory 6th rounder is better than the pick before Mr. Irrelevant.

[phillyesq]

In the Colbert era, we were able to obtain the following players in the 6th or 7th round: L.T. Walton, Anthony Chickillo, Vince Williams, Kelvin Beachum, Antonio Brown, David Johnson, Ryan Mundy, Chris Kemoeatu, and Brett Keisel...not bad...not bad at all...

You obviously aren't expecting to find guys like AB, but the Steelers have shown that they are pretty good with finding depth guys and contributors in the 6th round in particular. Oddly, they seem to do better in the 6th than they do in the 4th and 5th.

[bostonsteeler]

In the Colbert era, we were able to obtain the following players in the 6th or 7th round: L.T. Walton, Anthony Chickillo, Vince Williams, Kelvin Beachum, Antonio Brown, David Johnson, Ryan Mundy, Chris Kemoeatu, and Brett Keisel...not bad...not bad at all...

Chris Kemoeatu cost us an SB..

[dreegking]

More on the way with a SUisham trade or Bryant trade? Moving up? Or moving back but get extras with them included? Thoughts?

[8467thekraken]

I don't think it is time to give up on Bryant.

Despite how frustrated and pi$$ed off I am.

[RuthlessBurgher]

Tomlin talks NFL Draft
Posted 19 hours ago


Teresa Varley
Steelers.com



Coach Mike Tomlin put a lot of value on pre-draft visits from players.

•Stopping by: The Steelers can host up to 30 draft eligible players for visits at the UPMC Rooney Sports Complex prior to the 2016 NFL Draft, and it’s an opportunity for Coach Mike Tomlin as well as others in the organization to get to know the prospects on a completely different level. Last year the Steelers drafted several players who were in for visits, including receiver Sammie Coates and tight end Jesse James, and it’s been a similar case throughout the years.

“It’s unbelievably valuable,” said Tomlin. “You do your due diligence. You get to know kids. It’s amazing. You spend a day with a young man, the level in which you get to know him. Things of that nature. So it was good and it has been good.”


•Time well spent: Tomlin said the time they get to spend with draft prospects during their pro days are also invaluable, and while they don’t draft every player they meet with, sometimes those meetings play a role further down the line. Tight end Ladarius Green was a player the Steelers brought in for a pre-draft visit when he was coming out of college, and it left a lasting impact.

“We like to get out, we’re very active in the pro days, on the pro-day circuit,” said Tomlin. “We believe there’s no exception to getting our feet on the ground and interacting with the young men and those who they work with, and getting ourselves a better chance at understanding them and getting to know them. Like in the instance of Green, even things that don’t pan out from a draft standpoint, we might be doing visits with them in the future. And that’s going to be a great day or two well spent, if we get the opportunity to do business with any of these guys.”

•Together again: This year’s draft will be the 10th that Tomlin and General Manager Kevin Colbert have teamed up for, and the two have developed the perfect working relationship to make everything tick.

“We have a pretty fluid plan at this juncture,” said Tomlin. “We are like an old married couple. I enjoy the time spent with him this time of year, assessing talent, building our team. He is a great work partner. We have great, clean and fluid communication. But we really, oftentimes, are at the point of our relationship where not a lot of communication is needed. We have just been together for so long, I have a pretty good sense of what his outlook is going to be on players. In situations I am sure he feels the same way about me.”

Tomlin said a key in making it work so well is it’s not his draft, it’s not Colbert’s draft. It’s the Steelers draft.

“We don’t care who gets the credit,” said Tomlin. “We are just trying to build our team to the best of our ability and put together a strong group. We are singularly focused on doing that and doing it the right way. I think we are rightly focused in that regard. Personal agendas and things like that really never come into the equation. It hasn’t with us since I’ve been with him.”

[URL]http://www.steelers.com/news/article-1/Tomlin-talks-NFL-Draft/a06cc552-2b91-477b-b4b5-05d0d8c0b1aa[/URL]

[Oviedo]

Chris Kemoeatu cost us an SB..

No, actually it was DJ Johnson's inability to block, or really do anything else, that cost us a Super Bowl