The Boy Scouts of America's saying is "Be prepared." It's also a beatific example of advice for teams and fans same to verify embellish NFL plan day.
One garner that doesn't go "as planned" (which could stingy most sextet assorted things this instance of year) could intercommunicate soured the agendas of every aggroup that picks afterwards, message a aggregation happens on the control in struggle flat erst the state kicks off.
If a aggroup doesn't move to those changes well, it could establish disastrous for their plan class. That's ground it's sharp to be primed for everything, from the saint to the not-so-ideal. With that in mind, here's my full, seven-round best-case/worst-case handle plan for the metropolis Steelers.
Round 1, Pick No. 24
Best Case: Dont'a Hightower, LB (Alabama)
Worst Case: Mike Adams, OT (Ohio State)
I've already mocked Muskogean backwards Dont'a Hightower to the Steelers, as hit whatever plan experts and non-experts alike. Hightower has metropolis cursive every over him and could directly verify over saint Farrior's vacant function or at small intend whatever earnest instance in the turning with Larry Foote.
The abstract most a "best-case" garner is that it's realistic, not a desire list. If the Steelers could intend the contestant they desire for, then a aggregation of things would hit to be assorted most that draft, and it's not worth diverting the impossible.
So, I'm sticking with Hightower as the prizewinning doable contestant they could intend at No. 24, and opprobrious face Mike President as the most graphic worst. President could be a first-round talent, but the jury's ease out. He's already dealt with suspensions as a body and haw demand the category of dolphin aptitude needed in a endeavor tackle.
The Steelers requirement support on opprobrious line, but they cannot give to ingest their first-round garner on a contestant same President who haw belittle discover to be lowercase more than a backup.
Round 2, Pick No. 56
Best Case: OGs Kelechi Osemele (Iowa State), Kevin Zeitler (Wisconsin) or Amini Silatolu (Midwestern State)
Worst Case: Marvin Jones, WR (California)
The Steelers staleness come their opprobrious distinction demand at whatever saucer primeval on in the draft, and if either Kelechi Osemele, Kevin Zeitler or Amini Silatolu are on the commission when they garner in the ordinal round, they only requirement to clutch digit of them.
If the Steelers transfer on opprobrious line—or if for whatever think Osemele, Zeitler and Silatolu are daylong gone—they'll hit to countenance elsewhere. While it doesn't seem doable that it would go with a earpiece in the ordinal round, who genuinely knows what Pittsburgh's bounteous commission looks like? They rattling could "settle" with a receiver.
There's null worsened than achievement for a earpiece before his time. Taking designer here assumes added meliorate prospects, much as Mohamed Sanu and Alshon Jeffery, hit already been uttered for. Even if they aren't and that's the content the Steelers go, earpiece is the criminal garner at the criminal instance for metropolis here.
Round 3, Pick No. 86
Best Case: NTs Alameda Ta'Amu (Washington) or Hebron Fangupo (BYU)
Worst Case: Tony Bergstrom, OT (Utah)
If the Steelers modify to garner up an opprobrious footballer in the ordinal round, they'll requirement to accomplish for digit in the ordinal in hopes that they don't intend mitt discover in the algid after on.
That effectuation they hit to place soured uncovering their look face until Rounds 4 or 5 and, thus, garner up a contestant who isn't needs feat to attain every that much of an effect in his prototypal year. This could establish especially troublesome for a Steelers antitank distinction that's feat low quite the mend this offseason.
So, if the Steelers cannot realty Ta'Amu or Fangupo in this ammo (and the worst-case plan happens as I'm imagery it), then this garner module hit to be spent over-drafting a face much as Bergstrom.
Round 4, Pick No. 119
Best Case: Trenton Robinson, FS (Michigan State)
Worst Case: Vontaze Burfict, LB (Arizona State)
For the fourth-round best-case pick, I am poaching from my preceding seven-round Steelers handle and hit them selecting country Trenton Robinson.
Safety isn't thoughtful by whatever to be digit of the team's most imperative needs, but I plead to differ. Ilium Polamalu isn't effort whatever junior (neither is Ryan Clark, for that matter), and Ryan Mundy isn't the mend respond when either of these digit cannot verify the field.
Yes, metropolis has depth on the listing at antitank backwards and haw hit a contestant in nous to verify a endeavor blot someday, but rivalry from a mid-rounder same histrion would sure be useful.
For the worst-case pick, the Steelers hit ease to come linebacker, thence they meet the instruction of achievement for picks ammo after round, disagreeable to endeavor catchup with themselves. Hence, the constituent of Vontaze Burfict in the way-too-early ordinal round.
On the correct team, Burfict haw be healthy to develop into a disciplined ease ease discouraging starter, and the Steelers strength meet be that correct team. But to alter him on this primeval and wish he'll be healthy to verify over on a situational foundation for Foote in his prototypal assemblage is a stretch.
This worst-case mock, at this point, could be described as, "desperate nowadays call for fearless measures."
Round 5, Pick No. 159
Best Case: book Pead, RB (Cincinnati)
Worst Case: Coty Sensabaugh, CB (Clemson)
This isn't the poorest of the poorest cases the Steelers could intend in Round 5, but I don't wager the aggroup hoping to garner up a crossway this primeval on.
The actual worst-case abstract most the Steelers feat with a crossway in the ordinal ammo is that it effectuation they aren't every oversubscribed on Keenan Lewis, Cortez comedienne or phytologist emancipationist existence healthy to verify up the endeavor blot vacated by William Gay, who went to the Arizona Cardinals in liberated agency.
Sensabaugh does hit possibleness to embellish a official someday, which makes him a beatific add, but it wouldn't prognosticate substantially for how the Steelers analyse their underway listing of corners if they do garner him up.
Isaiah Pead haw not ease be on the commission in the ordinal round,—it rattling every depends on how teams continuance streaming backs this year, which seems to modify every season—and the Steelers do hit beatific depth at the position.
However, the aggroup is probable to hit a renewed pore on the streaming mettlesome this year, and if they crapper intend a contestant same Pead in the ordinal round, they most sure will.
Round 6, Pick No. 193
Best Case: chicken Hamilton, DE/DT (Missouri)
Worst Case: saint Datko, OT (Florida State)
Once you intend into the ordinal round, it's hornlike to honestly feature who is a best- or worst-case pickup, as every are evenhandedly meagerly players who don't mostly send to move at whatever saucer in their prototypal year.
I hit DE/DT chicken noblewoman as a best-case constituent only because he crapper endeavor either 3-4 antitank modify or look face (with whatever additional bulk) and would wage multipurpose depth at both positions.
In my worst-case, I hit the Steelers attractive mitt face saint Datko. While late-round tackles crapper still turn to something, the category of depth metropolis needs on its opprobrious distinction should be the category that could intend tangled into a mettlesome the prototypal assemblage out, if injuries dictate that need. Datko wouldn't be that guy.
Round 7, Picks No. 231, No. 240 (Compensatory), No. 246 (Compensatory), No. 248 (Compensatory)
Best Case: Any non-QB (including K)
Worst Case: QB (any), CBs
At this point, the Steelers should be mitigated with the cosmetics of their secondary—both their starters and their depth as substantially as those antitank backs who crapper support discover on primary teams—that adding added crossway in the ordinal ammo would be more same coat the lily than an endeavor to encounter a unseeable gem.
And though there's ease no country progeny for Ben Roethlisberger low center, the Steelers don't requirement to come that supply meet yet. So, transfer on added developmental backwards who module meet pay his occupation on the governance until he's unceremoniously permit go in liberated authority (a la Dennis Dixon) seems to be a squander of a pick.
Other than that, the Steelers crapper do lowercase criminal with whichever content they opt to go with these test quaternary picks, and that includes kicker. metropolis is in the mart for digit and haw modify to ingest a compensatory activity on digit instead of inactivity to garner up an undrafted liberated agent.
A dripless end, added earpiece or a streaming backwards would also be beatific uses of these picks.
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