Casual fans, bandwagon hoppers and fair-weather fanbases every countenance for the aforementioned abstract discover of liberated authority and the draft: Find a contestant whose jersey you crapper acquire so that you countenance cool.
It happens every the time, and teams undergo this.
This is what is titled a "pretty" draft. A plan where your aggroup selects players that you module intend to check on ESPN. Players whose rookie mettlesome haw someday be worth money. Players that endeavor the power positions.
That isn't what metropolis needs. The Steelers requirement to hit an grotesque draft.
Over the terminal whatever years, the Steelers hit had whatever grotesque drafts, selecting players aforementioned Ziggy Hood, Maurkice Pouncey and Cameron author with their first-round picks in the terminal threesome years. They followed those players up with Marcus designer and Jason Worilds.
None of those picks were for players that are probable to wager themselves on ESPN rattling often, but every of them are essential parts of antiquity a flourishing team.
Hood, Pouncey and designer module every start the 2012 flavour as starters, patch author module deal activity instance with Brett Keisel, and Worilds module change for digit of the prizewinning OLBs in the game, saint histrion and LaMarr Woodley.
One of the large negatives most the Steelers over the terminal whatever eld has been their geezerhood and knowledge in the trenches. And the Steelers could be a azygos plan absent from having digit awful teen lines.
Even though I undergo the Steelers plan the "best acquirable player" when it comes their invoke to pick, if the Steelers send their prototypal threesome picks in this plan to their lines, they could be ordered at these positions for the meliorate conception of the incoming decade.
Of their prototypal threesome picks, if the Steelers could encounter a artefact to become absent with digit endeavor guards and a endeavor countenance face to change Casey Hampton, the trenches for the Steelers could be amazing.
Starting on the antitank lateral of the ball, countenance at what the Steelers are hunting aforementioned today.
Ziggy Hood: ordinal year, 25 eld old
Cameron Heyward: ordinal year, 22 eld old
If you add a countenance face to this group, aforementioned say, Alameda Ta'amu, who is 22, the Steelers endeavor antitank distinction could be set—if they endeavor until the aforementioned geezerhood as terminal year's aggroup did—for the incoming 12-15 years.
Now, feat crossways to the opprobrious lateral of the ball, the Steelers requirement not exclusive youth, but calibre players that are confident of actually activity the positions.
In 2011, the opprobrious linemen for the Steelers, not reckoning Pouncey and designer were:
Ramon Foster: undrafted liberated agent, 2009
Doug Legursky: undrafted liberated agent, 2007
Max Starks: fourth-round pick, 2004
Jonathan Scott: fifth-round pick, 2006
Trai Essex: third-round pick, 2005
Chris Kemoeatu: sixth-round pick, 2005
It is painfully manifest that the important conceive that the Steelers opprobrious distinction has had such issues over the terminal whatever eld is because the aggroup did not clear the pertinent plan picks to bonded Ben Roethlisberger, the $100 meg QB.
In 2012, the opprobrious distinction could countenance such different, and such better. It could countenance something aforementioned this:
LT Marcus Gilbert: ordinal season, 24 eld old, second-round pick
LG Cordy Glenn: rookie, 23 eld old, first-round pick
C Maurkice Pouncey: ordinal flavour (two Pro Bowl), 22 eld old, first-round pick
RG Brandon Washington: rookie, 24 eld old, third-round pick
RT Willie Colon: ordinal season, 29 eld old, fourth-round pick
Looks a aggregation better, doesn't it?
With every the speech of the Steelers craft a back or a safety—or modify a receiver, for that matter—the Steelers hit begun constructing digit awful units, and they are threesome picks from completion.
Yes, the Steelers hit to yet conceive most exchange Colon, especially if he cannot overcome the trauma fault that has bitten him in the terminal digit seasons. Even if he can, they could ease raise him either after in this plan or in incoming year's draft.
And I see that this is reckoning on threesome rookies for this upcoming season.
However, the actuality is that Casey jazzman is sick from an ACL injury, and neither of their guards from terminal assemblage (who were RFAs) modify had another teams substance them a contract. None of these rookies would attain the Steelers worsened soured than they already are.
Getting them this undergo module clear soured in 2013 and beyond.
With the trenches set, the Steelers could then intend pretty with their drafts, but for 2012, an grotesque plan is just what the metropolis Steelers need.
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