Official 2018 Visit Thread

[Slapstick]

With no 5th year option taken on Dupree, and with Chikillo as the #1 back up at OLB....looking a bit thin there. Nwosu from USC or Sweat from Florida St could be interesting...

The Steelers exercised the 5th year option on Dupree...but, that doesn't discount Nwosu or Sweat, IMO...
There are two OLB roster spots from last year that are currently vacant: Harrison and Moats...Keion Adams is the presumptive player for one of those spots...

[squidkid]

only 23 visits............................hmmmmmm?

[calmkiller]

only 23 visits............................hmmmmmm?

Confirmed by Colbert during the press conference as well.

[squidkid]

Confirmed by Colbert during the press conference as well.

to me thats real strange. as important as the draft is to the steelers(especially because we dont use FA except for a few bums and a decent player or two)
the steelers have done a good job in the past of drafting. seems weird that they would change their routine.
when they sign lots of bums and no names UDFA, the board here applauds them for 'turning over every stone' but they didnt with this years draft process.
hopefully it turns out.

[calmkiller]

to me thats real strange. as important as the draft is to the steelers(especially because we dont use FA except for a few bums and a decent player or two)
the steelers have done a good job in the past of drafting. seems weird that they would change their routine.
when they sign lots of bums and no names UDFA, the board here applauds them for 'turning over every stone' but they didnt with this years draft process.
hopefully it turns out.

Taken directly from Steelersdepot:

Colbert - “I’m sure someone is going to ask, ‘well you only had 23 in for a visit,'” Colbert said Monday. “And that’s true. But we went into this spring with the focus of let’s make sure we don’t bring kids in just to hit 30. We wanted to make sure we were diligent about selecting those. Because when you do those interviews, it’s usually during your meetings. And it takes away from your meetings. We wanted to make sure the ones that we did were the most important.”

Colbert then pointed out the local visits that didn’t count against the 30, of which there were several.
Prior to that, he outlined the interview process at other times during the draft:
– Roughly 60 at the Senior Bowl
– The maximum 60 interviews at the Combine (10 of which, according to Colbert, they had already met at Mobile)
– “At least” 20 players prior to Pro Days
Colbert called the latter, the Pro Day visits, a very important part of the process when trying to make decisions. That’s been proven by their track record. Recently, the Steelers’ first round picks haven’t been pre-draft visitors but players the team spent extra time talking to at their Pro Day, like Artie Burns and T.J. Watt. As we’ve repeated several times, the last player the team selected in the first round without Tomlin/Colbert at his Pro Day was Ziggy Hood in 2009.

[calmkiller]

I am a little late in the party here, but I have updated the list of coach who visited pro days. I highlights Tomlin/Colbert in Red. Those are typically your first round pick visits. 2 QBs are on those visit lists. with Fichtner visiting a third. I am also attempting to go through all the possible players on those visits and update their H/W and round etc today. I will try and get it done before tonight. It is a lot of data to go through though.

[squidkid]

seems strange that 8 of our 13 official visits have been spent on projected 7th rounders or UDFAs and only 1 on a first rounder

i guess if you draft players a round or 2 early, you dont neede to have many true first rounders in for visits