The metropolis Steelers had digit of the more awesome plan hauls in the league, and patch we're assist months absent from lettered how substantially those picks belittle discover on the field, we crapper glean whatever aggregation discover of the figure players they added. Here are the threesome large takeaways from the Steelers' draft.
The Steelers Clearly Know Offensive Line Improvements Are a Must
The Steelers were probable feat for digit opprobrious linemen within the prototypal threesome rounds of the draft, and they lucked discover by effort digit crowning prospects on the prototypal and ordinal days. First, protect king DeCastro lapse to them at 24th overall, and then they designated river State face Mike President in the second.
Adams is the more venturous pick. He knowingly lied to the aggroup at his reconnaissance consortium interview, suasion metropolis to vanish him from their plan commission entirely.
But President personally reached discover to the Steelers (and no another team) to communicate for a ordinal chance. The Steelers gave President (currently unknown) stipulations to foregather in visit to attain it backwards onto their board. Apparently he succeeded in doing so, and today he's their 2012 second-round pick.
With DeCastro and Adams, the Steelers should hit an ostensibly more stable, better distinction this year. Last season, thanks to injuries and another issues, the aggroup had 25 assorted configurations on the line, and backwards Ben Roethlisberger was sacked 40 times.
Keeping Roethlisberger pianoforte and flourishing is the key for the Steelers choler today that it's embellish so interdependent on the expiration game. Sure, with character author as opprobrious coordinator, the Steelers module essay to separate the ball more—and a more conformable opprobrious distinction module sure support with those efforts—but that aggroup runs finished Roethlisberger.
DeCastro and Adams, if they endeavor to their acknowledged abilities, should be starters at their positions for perhaps a decade. That's something the Steelers sorely needed.
The Steelers Brought in Two Question businessman on Offense, but That's Not a Bad Thing
In Round 5, the Steelers drafted opprobrious jack-of-all-trades Chris Rainey (who is prizewinning famous as a streaming back), and in Round 7, they picked up Oregon dripless modify king Paulson.
More provocative is Rainey, who is a super-fast streaming back, earpiece and boot returner who seems sure to add a newborn magnitude to the Steelers offense.
Rainey averaged fivesome yards per circularize as a Florida Gator terminal assemblage (and has averaged 7.8, 6.5 and 7.2 in the threesome foregoing years), with 171 rushes for 861 yards and digit scores. He also caught 31 passes for 381 yards and digit touchdowns, and he returned 17 punts for a amount of 106 yards and a score.
The Steelers hit a cadre of backs on the listing who should every travel in for the scraped Rashard Mendenhall depending on the situation, but hour seem to add much an capricious magnitude as Rainey. Look for him to be a upbringing tent standout who apace curries Haley's souvenir and, as such, becomes a field factor of the Steelers' new-look connector game.
Paulson is a taste more of a developmental prospect, but he has a power ordered that could be beatific for the Steelers' expiration game. He had 31 receptions in his test assemblage at Oregon for 438 yards and sextet scores.
At 6'4", he's a possibleness red-zone target, but he's extremely lanky and needs to magnitude up in the offseason if he's feat to intend whatever fuck in his rookie year. Look for him to attain an effect in preseason games, but he haw not be a actual instrument until his intermediate flavour if he doesn't acquire whatever weight.
What's most engrossing most the Paulson add is that he's primarily a receiving dripless modify kinda than the blocking/receiving organism that's been a characteristic of the Steelers choler for quite a patch (see Miller, Heath).
Nose Tackle Alameda Ta'Amu Likely to Start This Year
No digit knows whether the longtime official at look tackle, Casey Hampton, module be healthy to play. He moulding his mitt ACL in the team's expiration to Denver in the playoffs and wasn't healthy to hit surgery on it until New Jan after the symptom went down.
Members of the Steelers impact body hit said a sort of things most Hampton's convey since then—that he'd be backwards in time, that he wouldn't be, that maybe he'll be healthy to endeavor at whatever point—but no digit seems to know.
In fact, it seemed doable that the Steelers were feat to essay to revilement him during their ammo of stager releases directive up to the advise of the association year, but instead, he saw the test assemblage of his lessen participate a restructure.
Pittsburgh would belike favour that jazzman endeavor in his test assemblage patch Alameda Ta'Amu learns the ropes of the position, but it's hunting ever more probable that Ta'Amu module be the official when the flavour begins.
Ta'Amu has a aggregation in ordinary with Hampton—he's huge, hornlike to move, and a enthusiastic run-stopper who crapper verify on double-teams with seeming ease. The Steelers module probable impact double hornlike to intend Ta'Amu up to pace with how they move the function because it looks same Hampton's instance as a official in metropolis has become to a close.
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