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This is the Steelers standard on

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Steelers Nation Radio and podcast

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on Steelers dot Com.

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Seven picks to be made in this upcoming

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mock draft unless we trade won away. Trades

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will be on the table here as we work our

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way through the ESPN Mock Draft tool. But

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before we get to that, uh, did

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you see that Ryan retired?

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That Matt Ryan retired.

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It's funny because I thought he had been retired.

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Year right, Yes, here's calling

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games on like CBS's C Team c

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broadcast, right right, all right,

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and then I wake up tomorrow or yesterday morning

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and it's Matt Ryan retires after fifteen seasons.

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In the end, I think it was I

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think it was like official, like he signed the

0:56

one day contract

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with the Falcon.

0:59

The Falcon and just I RFL because we

1:01

all remember he was a cult most recently.

1:03

Right, that's

1:06

because that season was so good for him.

1:08

It was just like, I to what moment

1:10

to see that from Matt Ryan, Because

1:13

like you said, I'm like, this guy's been in a suit and time

1:15

on Sundays in the booth for a

1:17

year now. I

1:19

guess he was kind of holding up the hope that

1:21

And let me go one step further with Okay,

1:24

if he wasn't officially retired,

1:27

doesn't that make you think that he's taking phone calls

1:29

last year?

1:30

And I think people were saying that, weren't.

1:32

They, Well, why didn't he get one? There's

1:34

teams that were signing Joe Flacco.

1:36

Forgot because maybe that shows how bad

1:38

Matt Ryan was toward the end of his career.

1:40

Could he have been any worse than Joe Flacco

1:42

and you took a chance?

1:45

Was great.

1:46

I'm just saying it's it's odd to me that if

1:48

he hadn't officially retired, he

1:51

was probably trying to flirt with some teams

1:53

last year to come back.

1:55

Weren't the Jets conversation example,

1:58

why did they not just get bring like, even

2:00

if he does suck, at least he.

2:02

Gets you through the season in a professional man in

2:04

the costume nothing nothing.

2:06

You're in New York, you have a ton of payroll.

2:08

You don't need to spend break

2:11

the bank to bring in Matt.

2:12

And you can talk to him and be like, hey, Matt, like,

2:15

this is a good chance for you to get on a team

2:17

that because they were supposed to be a contender. So

2:19

I'm laughing at I say this, But in the moment, they would be like,

2:22

hey, Rogers is hurt. You can start for one year.

2:24

One year, Matt, that's all we need and you have a chance

2:26

to go to the playoffs and be a contender.

2:28

Like it would have been an easy sell for Matt Ryan

2:30

too, Like.

2:31

Didn't New York go seven

2:33

and ten or something last year? So they

2:36

were a decent like not

2:38

above average definition,

2:40

they were below average, but they were right at

2:42

that border of five hundred.

2:43

Years in a row. They've had a decent team. Yeah,

2:46

just not a good quarter.

2:47

But maybe if Matt Ryan's any

2:50

ounce better than Zach Wilson,

2:52

he would have been maybe, I mean ten

2:54

would have been at least more professor. Maybe you go nine

2:56

and eight and you you barely miss

2:58

the playoffs, but that's better than going even and ten,

3:01

don't you think.

3:02

And you mentioned the.

3:03

Boy toy he is now done for Bronco.

3:06

Zach Wilson traded. So I saw this mail

3:08

hunter.

3:11

So with

3:13

the new Broncos jerseys being announced yesterday,

3:16

also they were like you think about those two I

3:19

someone said, like, we're we have like two teams

3:22

left with like the panels on the armpits,

3:25

they drowsed.

3:25

Stripe off the helmet to the

3:28

orange stripe.

3:28

Why can't they just play all the time in

3:30

those in those orange

3:32

crush throwbacks with the light blue

3:34

helmets.

3:36

I think across sports, for

3:38

the most part, older jerseys are better than new. Yeahs,

3:40

I don't understand how some teams

3:42

have strayed away. Like I'm a huge

3:44

Pit fan, Like the Pit script is like one of

3:47

the most incredible for most.

3:49

Of my young life. They were a different

3:51

color scheme and didn't have the script.

3:54

Won a weird logo.

3:55

You know, then they woke up, they brought it back, and now it's like everybody

3:58

around college football is again in un Like

4:00

that's top five jersey in the sport. And like

4:02

you see like the Eagles Kelly Green, like

4:05

that is easily one of the best jerseys in the NFL.

4:07

Why in the hell are you not wearing that every Sunday

4:09

in a road version and in a in a home version.

4:13

So like the Broncos to me, is same is the same

4:15

thing. It falls into that category, that light blue

4:17

helmet with the the D

4:20

and the Bronco with the with the what

4:23

is it the smoke or the breath,

4:25

the cold breath coming out of his nose because

4:27

it's cold up there in Denver. That

4:30

is such a great uniform. I don't know how they don't

4:32

have that as the home and then make a white version for

4:34

the road.

4:35

Oh my god, could you imagine those in all white?

4:37

I mean I don't have to because they did it. They've had it in

4:39

the past and it looks it looks glorious.

4:42

And they have a white helmet too.

4:43

Did you see the well,

4:46

it just.

4:46

Looks dumb without the strip I'm looking at the helmets

4:48

now looks terrible.

4:50

I mean, not the throwback helmet, the one.

4:52

With the new the new helmet modern

4:54

logo with but there's no stripe

4:56

down.

4:58

I think there's a little bit of tweaking to the Bronco too,

5:00

like they might have made it a different color. And I

5:03

do like the shelves, the new shell thing with

5:06

the league where.

5:07

The three three helmets colors.

5:10

Yeah, it's good.

5:11

It's funny now that Broncos got to put in that baby

5:13

blue throwback.

5:15

And now he's gonna look great when he's hunting for mills.

5:17

And then well, okay, that's my point was that

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someone said, just caught my new

5:22

new era style Broncos

5:24

jersey for Zach Wilson, and it was a jersey

5:26

but it said number two with mill Punter

5:29

on the name Blade instead of Wilson.

5:32

I think he's gonna starts

5:34

gonna end up starting that someone brought this up.

5:37

I feel much better now about the Russell Wilson

5:39

trade because clearly the Broncos just have no idea

5:41

what they're doing at quarterbacks.

5:42

Just think they bring in Zach Wilson.

5:45

I just think they're tanking the season. I think they want to be in the top

5:47

five next year to get a quarterback in next.

5:49

I feel I don't feel bad about Like, sure

5:51

it didn't work out for Russ and in Denver,

5:53

but I feel fine, Like that's

5:55

a team where nothing is going right, so it doesn't mean it's

5:58

not going to go right for Russ in Pittsburgh,

6:00

you know, And.

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I think that that's I think they know nothing's going

6:02

right too. I think Sean Payton has gone to the ownership and

6:04

said let's bottom out, like let's and Zach

6:06

Wilson's the quarterback with Jared Judy's

6:08

gone, yeah right there.

6:10

I did hear a report that Courtland Sutton they're not

6:12

hearing trades for him.

6:13

Western Simmons is out. They're not bringing him

6:15

back like they're they're bottoming out. They want to pick

6:17

in the top five next year. They want to get a crack

6:19

at next year's quarterback class, and Zach Wilson

6:22

is a great guy to bring in and start if

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you want to have a shot at the top five.

6:26

All right, let's get into this mock draft here

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tangents about Zach Wilson aside in the Denver

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Broncos new uniforms, Steelers

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are picking at number twenty overall. Before

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I even hit play on this mock draft. I

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don't want to trade back in the first round. I don't want to trade

6:42

up in the first round. I think number twenty is a.

6:43

Is a good spot for the Steelers, and.

6:48

The capital that you would have to give up to

6:51

trade up won't be worth it because I think a player

6:53

that you need and want will be there at twenty anyway.

6:56

And then, for the reasons that Omar said trading back

6:58

again, I think a player that you'll want is there at twenty.

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There's no need to trade away from that.

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So away we go.

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In the NFL Mocked

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Draft Steelers Standard final

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version. We are up at

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pick number twenty

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picks that went before the Steelers. Byron Murphy

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went to the Rams, Marius Mims went

7:19

to the Bengals. Oh

7:21

Cooper Dijon, and Kenyon Mitchell went to the Jags

7:24

and Seahawks, respectively, at seventeen

7:26

for the Jags and Cooper and sixteen

7:28

for the Seahawks and Kenyon Mitchell.

7:31

From thirteen fourteen to fifteen eight run on

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tackles happened. Talise Fuaga, Troy

7:35

Fatanu, and Olamoa Olamoya

7:40

Fashanu all went Raiders

7:42

Saints Colts. So that's not good.

7:45

First three picks in the draft for Williams may Daniels.

7:47

Then the Cardinals did take Marvin Harrison juniors.

7:49

Good for that.

7:50

I like that.

7:51

Good for them.

7:51

Uh Chargers took Joe Alt because of Marvin

7:54

Harrison Junior falling in front of him. And then JJ

7:56

McCarthy was sixth to the Giants in

7:58

this mock draft.

8:00

Some Giants fans must be ecstatic.

8:04

Man, So the

8:06

guy who's kind of falling in our lap, and

8:08

in our previous two mock draft, Jacob, we have

8:11

ignored this position and

8:13

tried to trade back up in the second round to

8:15

get this player. It has not worked

8:17

out for us either time we

8:20

did it trying to get Jackson Powers Johnson, one time we

8:22

did it for Zach Frasier. Well, right now we're

8:24

staring at Graham Barton available on the

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board. How far we

8:28

were against us, but have been

8:31

talked into coming around

8:33

on based on people like Matt Williamson,

8:36

other experts that I've listened to podcasts,

8:39

ESPN shows leading up

8:42

to this point. Don't

8:44

worry about the tackle to center switch. This

8:46

guy is a center in the NFL.

8:48

And another thing too, is that as

8:50

as time progresses, things change.

8:52

Right, we started this

8:54

offseason saying, go after

8:58

a tackle, go after a maybe

9:00

get that stud wide receiver in the first round, because

9:03

a lot of people are saying around pick

9:05

fifty you can find a center,

9:08

of a viable center that's still

9:10

there for you. I don't that trend

9:12

to me has gone away. It seems

9:14

that all three of these guys, between Barton,

9:17

Powers, Johnson, and Fraser, they're

9:19

not falling. I mean,

9:21

Powers Johnson has fallen from being a top ten

9:24

prospect and now being just a first round overall

9:27

prospect. But it doesn't seem like any

9:29

of these guys are really significantly

9:31

falling to near fifty.

9:33

And so that would mean two things.

9:35

One, you're not gonna have the luxury of just taking whoever

9:37

you want in the first round and then not trading

9:39

up in the second round and getting that center, or

9:42

excuse me, you have to trade up

9:45

pretty significantly, like

9:47

much higher than from your fifty first

9:49

overall pick, moving up in

9:52

the second round if you want that center, if you don't

9:54

go after him in the first round. So

9:57

I think given those two ruths

10:01

that given we're in this

10:03

position now we nab the

10:05

center.

10:05

We take Graham Barton, just so you know

10:08

peace of mind.

10:08

The other players that are available that would make sense,

10:11

Nate Wagan's out of Clemson, the corner, JC

10:13

Latham the tackle out of Alabama, and

10:16

Brian.

10:16

Thomas j is there wide receiver.

10:19

I like Barton. I'll take Barton.

10:22

And it's not a pick where it's like, well Barton, you know, not only

10:24

you get this guy who could be your center, but there's a flexibility

10:26

there. No, I'm taking Barton

10:28

to be the center, right, there's not well, he could be a tackle

10:31

at some point, he can jump into garden. No, he

10:33

is the starting center, maybe not right away

10:35

but eventually and for years to come, So

10:37

we would draft Graham Barton, and with that,

10:40

I don't feel the need to really look at trading

10:42

up in the second round because the center was

10:44

the one that I thought we.

10:45

Would need to A wide receiver is gonna be there?

10:48

A tackle maybe not, But again,

10:50

I think the Steelers feel that they're a little bit more comfortable

10:53

with their tackle position than maybe you and I do.

10:55

Yeah, I'm okay with it. Maybe.

10:57

I mean, like, maybe we could have watched

10:59

the aft unfold to see

11:01

if, oh, is there a guy who's slipping, maybe we

11:03

could trade up to get him.

11:06

Why don't you give us the recap of picks

11:08

twenty one through fifty.

11:10

We're here now just to highlight some of the players

11:12

that went that could be interesting for the Steelers.

11:16

And just playing was there anyone that fell

11:19

that we could have said, oh.

11:21

If we didn't take Barton, Fraser made

11:23

it to forty one for the Packers, So

11:25

maybe you try to jump up in front of the Packers there

11:27

for Fraser.

11:28

But like we're saying, ten spots is

11:30

a significant jump.

11:31

Jackson powers Johnson went to the Niners at thirty

11:33

one.

11:34

Yeah, the first time twenty jumps or

11:36

twenty spots. I mean that that'd be taking

11:38

another first round pick, so that's probably out

11:40

of the question.

11:41

Not many players went that, I mean, like wide

11:43

receivers out of Night Mitchell went thirty third, thirty

11:45

fifth was Keon Coleman. Okay, I mean, yeah, you wouldn't

11:48

hate taking those guys. Some

11:50

tackles went off the board and Jordan Morgan and

11:52

Roger Rosengarden. But we're kind of getting to the tackles

11:55

that aren't necessarily like stud starter

11:57

potential Day one guys.

11:59

Uh Frey.

12:00

Like I mentioned when forty one forty

12:02

four, the Raiders picked Michael Pennix junior, so

12:05

got some quarterback help in the mid second

12:07

round early.

12:07

I feel like he went to them last MOG draft

12:10

too that we did forty six, the Colts

12:12

took Roman Wilson, another wide receiver off

12:14

the board, Mike

12:16

Sandristill Jaguars

12:18

took a corner Jaln Polk

12:20

wide receiver went to the Bengals at forty nine, so

12:22

we're picking up fifty one.

12:24

The best player available is ns Reigxtraw,

12:26

the corner out of Missouri.

12:28

He is a thirty two.

12:29

Overall prospect

12:32

according to ESPN dot com. The best

12:34

wide receiver available is Ricky Pearsall,

12:36

the wide receiver out of Florida. Either

12:39

one of those to me seems like a good pick.

12:42

The best tackle available right now is Kingsley

12:44

Samashia out of BYU

12:48

forty seventh overall prospect. Not sure

12:50

if he would be really projected to start

12:52

even at any point during the season, kind

12:57

of in that vein of the steel

13:01

you know, maybe corners

13:03

not as high on your list as wide receiver or

13:05

as high on your list as tackle potentially. But

13:08

I think you take Ennis Rakestraw here and

13:10

take the best player available, and it just

13:13

so happens to fill and eat for you.

13:14

He's the best player overall, best player

13:16

overall available, and that's.

13:17

A twenty player drop, or that's a twenty

13:19

spot draw.

13:20

It would be a bit of a drop for Rakestraw

13:22

in a pretty deep cornerback class. So let's

13:25

take Rakestraw out of Missouri, and

13:28

now you have we will

13:30

probably be Joey Porter Jr. And

13:32

Dante Jackson starting, and then Ennis

13:34

Rakestraw pushing to get into that one two

13:37

tandem.

13:37

Sooner rather than later.

13:40

That would be again the second year in a row where

13:43

the Steelers would take a corner in the second round

13:45

and if they can hit in JPJ

13:48

and Rakestraw are a

13:51

viable tandem for five, six, seven years

13:53

to come. Hell of a job

13:55

finding your your your secondary in

13:58

the second round of the draft. Stewards

14:00

next pick is round three, pick number

14:02

eighty four. Still would like to get

14:04

a wide receiver for sure. Some

14:07

offensive line help is necessary, and

14:09

maybe some defensive tackle help.

14:11

Best player available is Cedric Gray,

14:13

the inside linebacker out of North

14:16

Carolina. Definitely

14:19

something that I would be like considering taking, not

14:21

something that i'd be shy away from. Then you've

14:24

got two defensive tackles in Brandon Dorius

14:26

and Mason Smith. Dorius

14:28

out of Oregon, Mason Smith out of LSU,

14:31

so you could get some help on the defensive tackle side

14:33

of things. The best offensive tackle available

14:35

is Dominic Puney out of Kansas. He

14:38

is the seventy one overall prospects,

14:40

so that's a thirteen slot

14:43

drop for him here. I

14:47

think I'd take Cedric Gray. I think I

14:49

take the linebacker. Maybe

14:51

I am

14:53

being foolish there, but

14:56

to me, I just think that again,

14:59

you get the best player available. And

15:03

even though you went

15:05

out and you got Patrick Queen to

15:09

be in that middle of that defense and

15:11

to kind of, you know, be

15:13

that guy for the future.

15:16

Getting this guy.

15:19

Cedric Gray in the

15:21

third round to potentially be that

15:24

that number two for years because

15:26

you.

15:26

Don't know how long e Rob is going to be

15:28

around.

15:29

You know how long you might

15:31

be able to get the most out of Cedric

15:33

Gray if you put him in this role. So

15:35

I mean, maybe you know, you flinch because

15:37

we still have a wide receiver tackle defense. If

15:40

you're okay with it, I'm going to put in Cedric Gray and take

15:42

this inside linebacker and yeah,

15:45

I think really strengthens your room.

15:47

And then on top of this all, like

15:50

Cole Holcom I thought did great last year,

15:52

but that injury was brutal. Alexander

15:54

another brutal injury, you

15:56

get Cedric Gray. Now you know you

15:58

have Roberts and Queen and now Cedric

16:00

Gray, and you have a very good, solid,

16:03

stable top three. Maybe you can leave

16:05

the light on for Cole Holcom still, but

16:07

it would just despite them at

16:09

the top being really solid at inside

16:11

linebacker, you still want to see a little

16:13

bit more depth I think added to

16:17

that room. So we'll take Cedric

16:19

Gray, the inside linebacker

16:22

out of North Carolina in the third

16:24

round. And then that's our first third round

16:26

pick and second third round

16:28

pick at number ninety eight. That defensive

16:31

tackle who was there when we were debating our last

16:33

pick, Brandon Dorius, is still there out

16:36

of Oregon. The best

16:38

pass catcher available is a tight end right now

16:40

in Cad Stover out of Ohio

16:42

State. The best wide receiver

16:44

is Malik Washington out of

16:47

Virginia. Jermaine Burton

16:50

out of Alabama another wide receiver that is

16:52

still on the board for your

16:54

Pittsburgh Steelers.

16:58

I hesitant to

17:00

do this because now we're picking

17:02

a lot of the defensive

17:04

side of the ball, we're ignoring offense.

17:06

But I mean, Brandon Dorius

17:09

seems like a good pick. The best player available

17:11

again a defensive tackle.

17:12

Well this only I mean, this

17:15

is obviously a mock draft, and these

17:17

are all hypotheticals. But what

17:19

some people would say if, Okay, the Seelers

17:21

are gonna go for the tackle or I'm sorry for

17:24

the guard in the first round, and then the cornerback

17:26

on the second and the linebacker in the third,

17:28

defensive line on the fourth, they're

17:32

not prioritizing the wide receiver

17:34

room here.

17:35

Maybe that means they attack it via

17:37

free agency. Wants to draft is over?

17:38

Yeah, take another swing at it.

17:40

Maybe what we mentioned in the last episode with

17:43

Peter Schrager's right, they take another swing

17:45

at maybe getting the Brandon Ayuk or or

17:47

someone via a trade like that.

17:49

You part ways with a future second.

17:52

But let's take Dorius here, but let's

17:54

promise each other in the fourth round, will take a wide receiver.

17:56

Okayceiver, Okay, we're gonna

17:58

take them there. Take Brandon Dorius

18:01

here at pick number ninety eight. That's

18:03

the Steelers second third round pick of

18:05

the twenty twenty four draft, and

18:07

that would mean that we have a

18:10

center, and then we had gone

18:12

corner, inside backer, and

18:15

defensive tackle with our next three picks.

18:18

Now the best wide receiver available at

18:21

pick number one nineteen is still Malik

18:24

Washington out of Virginia. You've

18:26

gotten as like Jermain Burton, Jamari

18:28

Thrash and bub Means.

18:30

Now Bub Means is interesting not to say

18:33

that we put a ton of stock in this podcast

18:35

and what mel Kayper has to say. But he did

18:37

a piece on ESPN dot com where he listed, you

18:39

know, his favorite

18:41

players at each position, not Kalyb Williams,

18:44

a quarterback, but his favorite player and

18:46

a wide receiver. His favorite player was bub Means

18:48

out of pit. Bub Means

18:51

is a weird one because there's a lot of potential there. In two

18:53

years of pit he only had like one two hundred yards,

18:55

like sixty six catches. Last

18:57

year was one of the worst quarterback situation

19:00

in college football that he had to deal with.

19:01

That Pitt had a tight end

19:04

playing quarterback.

19:05

Yes, and then they Pitt

19:08

had three wins last year during the football season,

19:10

a different starting quarterback was there

19:12

for each one. Djakovic won

19:14

one, Vyeir one one, and

19:16

then you're now one one. I mean, that's just terrible.

19:19

That's turmoil. The

19:21

turmoil in the quarterback room in the city of Pittsburgh

19:23

last year for a college team and the pro team.

19:26

Was just ghastly.

19:28

So I think there's some of that going

19:30

with bub Means, is that they're looking more at the potential

19:33

and less at the actual production.

19:34

Okay, I wouldn't hate taking

19:37

him here in this yeah, I mean this is

19:39

your wheelhouse.

19:41

Another guy that's there though, that I like is Luke

19:43

McCaffrey out of Rice.

19:44

So Mike Pursuder talked a lot about

19:47

Luke McCaffrey today in the Morning show, and

19:51

his argument was, yes, small

19:54

school Rice, small receiver McCaffrey,

19:56

but you kind of love the name.

19:59

And he said, he said this and.

20:00

This as much anymore, by the way, not ten Rocky,

20:02

but like Puka Nakua didn't go to Alabama,

20:05

right, Weoper cup didn't go to well.

20:07

He encountered that that the Rice argument

20:10

by saying, okay, uh,

20:14

twenty nine teams passed on a

20:16

what how many of those teams would

20:18

pass on him today? Like you're you're

20:21

allowed to for the right reasons to

20:24

want to go after certain guys

20:27

because of certain non

20:29

football reasons, A small school,

20:31

a last name, like you're

20:33

you weren't the fifth round here? Or

20:36

right, where's the fourth round? Fourth round here? What

20:39

is it going to cost you long term if

20:41

you go with a small school

20:43

McCaffrey versus a

20:46

power five school guy that's that's.

20:49

Went to Alabama, right and he's available,

20:52

right.

20:53

I don't I don't mind the McCaffrey.

20:54

I like Luke McCaffrey. Pick. I think he's kind

20:57

of that new age NFL player.

20:59

And small shifty.

21:01

Yeah, I just think you like again,

21:04

you get some people roll your eyes at this and

21:06

it's so cliche, but

21:09

just like people say you never go wrong picking a lot,

21:11

like can you really go wrong picking a McCaffey?

21:13

Their dad ed was great, Christian's

21:16

great.

21:16

And like this is and just to prove

21:18

our point even further, you know, everyone

21:20

was saying Tim Benn said this best, like

21:23

at at pick seventeen

21:25

last year, where the Stigulers are gonna get criticized

21:28

for taking Joey Porter Junior at seventeen,

21:30

possibly because some people

21:32

were saying he's not a top seventeen guy. But

21:35

once he got to thirty two and he

21:37

was still there, how

21:39

many teams were willing to trade up

21:41

with the Steelers in order to meet I mean a

21:43

lot of them that were trading up were trying

21:45

to get a quarterback. But still, how

21:47

many teams that would have been in the Steelers position at

21:49

thirty two would have said, yeah, of course

21:51

I wanted to take Joey Porter junior thirty two. That's

21:53

a steal, steal of a draft, Like there was

21:56

nothing wrong with liking certain guys

21:58

for specific reasons. Now

22:02

you could counter that with saying, well,

22:04

why did you bring in Trey

22:06

Emmons? And why'd you bring in Derek Watt.

22:10

I understand that, but those guys weren't

22:12

brought in to be.

22:14

What TJ.

22:15

Watt was brought in to do and what Joey Porter Junior

22:18

was brought in to do. Luke

22:21

McCaffrey is a legitimate draft prospect,

22:24

right, I mean Trey Emmons was not. Derek

22:26

Watt was not both of their careers.

22:28

I know Derek Watt is officially retired.

22:31

I don't know if Trey Mens is still in the league,

22:34

but there is nothing wrong

22:36

with going after a legitimate draft prospect,

22:39

especially in these fourth

22:41

and fifth rounds.

22:43

So I'm all for it.

22:44

So we got Luke McCaffrey and FO.

22:46

Yeah, we don't have a pick in round five. The second

22:49

pick in round six belongs to the Steelers.

22:52

Best player available is Tanner McLachlan, tight end

22:54

out of Arizona. Charles Turner

22:56

the third the center guard out of LSU,

22:59

is the second best player available. Deentre Prince,

23:02

the corner out of Ole, miss the

23:04

third best player available. But I

23:07

kind of attempted to just take the best tackle on

23:09

the board right now.

23:10

Yeah, just because Tyler Tyland.

23:12

Grable out of Central Florida is

23:15

who that would be just again

23:18

to fill out that that position

23:23

on the roster. But it's very clear after this mock

23:25

draft. I mean we'll take Tyler Grable here. Dann

23:28

Moore junior will be starting this year, no

23:30

question about it. You're not gonna get a tackle. This

23:33

isn't a guy that you're in the free agency now in the second

23:35

wave and we didn't take a tackle in the

23:37

draft.

23:37

This isn't a guy that you're taking in order

23:39

to push out Dan Moore. Just

23:42

the maybe light of fire and just say hey,

23:44

there's there's gonna be some

23:47

kind of competition. Doesn't mean you're baland

23:49

to lose, but there is gonna be someone else vying.

23:51

For that position.

23:53

So the last pick for the Steelers to pick one ninety five

23:55

in the sixth round. They don't have a seventh round pick.

23:57

Currently.

23:58

Best three players are tight end that are available,

24:01

just no need for a tight end at all. Two

24:04

guys that intrigue me here Malik Mustafa,

24:07

a safety out of wake Forest uh and

24:09

then a couple edge rushers Miles Cole

24:11

out of Texas Tech and Trejon jeff.

24:12

Coat out of Arkansas.

24:16

Not looking for any one of these three guys to come

24:18

in contribute mightily start

24:21

even start eventually. Uh, but

24:23

just think that, you know, maybe taking the edg Rusher,

24:25

maybe taking that safety.

24:26

Wouldn't be the worst thing in the world.

24:28

I'm just gonna close my eyes and pick because I don't think it matters

24:30

very much.

24:31

Oh, we picked the safety, Melik Mustafa.

24:33

Up, all right, that's fine.

24:35

So again, I didn't

24:37

want to like really belittle the sixth

24:39

round, seventh round or you know, roll mind.

24:42

Because we're about to do the Steelers.

24:44

All time sixth round and all times seventh round rounds

24:46

in the next episode and will highlight some NFL

24:48

players that were taking in those rounds.

24:50

And I mean there's some.

24:53

Taking in the sixth round of the NFL

24:56

Draft, just on a whole.

24:59

But yeah, so the steel

25:01

Again.

25:03

Not to say that that guy can't be somebody

25:05

in the sixth round, it's just at

25:08

that point you're not

25:10

expecting him to become it's a happy surprise,

25:13

here's the thing become anything more than just a

25:15

fringe roster player. You and I aren't

25:17

going to be able to find that diamond in the rough. Oh

25:20

my Conna Company could. I don't know

25:22

if you and I could.

25:23

All Right, So pick number twenty was Graham Barton.

25:25

ESPN gives the Steelers an eighty seven percent

25:28

chance for him being

25:30

there at number twenty.

25:31

And then how about this, the next pick, he

25:33

has.

25:33

A less than five percent chance of being there, So

25:35

clearly they're saying, if he gets to twenty Barton,

25:38

he ain't gonna get past the Steelers. Then

25:41

Rakestraw only a twenty

25:43

three percent chance that he would have been there at pick fifty.

25:45

One where we got him, so pretty

25:47

good value for Regstraw.

25:48

There, Cedric Gray there was an

25:50

eighty three percent chance that he would be there.

25:53

I picked number eighty four.

25:54

Brandon Dorius had a thirty five percent chance

25:56

the defensive tackle being there at pick ninety eight, so that's

25:59

a pretty good pick. Luke McCaffrey

26:01

had an eighty eight percent chance of being there at pick number

26:03

one nineteen, and

26:06

then Tyland

26:08

Grabil had a better than ninety five percent

26:10

chance of being there at pick one seventy eight. How

26:14

about Malik Mustafa the safety outaway for us

26:16

fifty five percent.

26:17

Chance of being there, so pretty good for

26:19

us pace him pick from me.

26:20

So again, it's it's

26:23

Graham Barton, it's Ennis Rakestraw, it's

26:25

Cedric Gray, Brandon, Dorrius, Luke McCaffrey,

26:27

Tyland Grabel, and Malik

26:29

Mustafa. The final mock draft

26:31

for the Steelers Standard. You can put it in stone.

26:34

We'll talk about how we did on Tuesday's

26:37

episode next week and review

26:39

the Steelers actual picks with our projected

26:41

picks. But when we come back, it

26:43

is time to wrap up our series of Steelers

26:45

all time draft picks in every round

26:48

of the draft. We got round six and we got

26:50

round seven to go today. Looking forward

26:52

to breaking down the top fives in each round

26:55

for your Pittsburgh Steelers.

26:56

Then on the Steelers Standard