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We march on to round five in

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our series of all

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time round selections

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for the Pittsburgh Steelers.

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We've done round one, Round two, Round three, Round

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four, and round five, and.

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I gotta make a note, this does get

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harder as we move on to like narrow

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down a top five that you can really be

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proud of and be like, yeah, all these guys had an impact.

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If you're a typical franchise,

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they still ain't getting that hard man like, yeah,

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sure, maybe we're making a little

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bit of.

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A stretch with some players. Guess what, But

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like we're in the fifth round. Now, there's a gold jacket

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there too.

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There's a gold jacket here too, there's

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MVP bids here that

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fell short, and there's recognizable

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players for all eras

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of Steelers fans. So I mean

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again, just you

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can't do this with every other franchise in league.

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You'd be naming like two guys in the fifth round

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and then you kind of be like grasping for straws and just

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looking at who played the most games. So you

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could just have like a technicality that you

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can put them in at three or four or five like not with

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the Steelers, not in

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round five for them. But before we

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highlight some of the round five moves that

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your Pittsburgh Steelers have made. Here's some famous

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round five picks made in

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NFL history. In twenty seventeen,

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the San Francisco forty nine Ers took a tight end out

1:35

of Iowa whose name was George Kittle

1:38

in the fifth round.

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I think that worked out to be pretty good.

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Yes, have you ever seen the George Kittle freshman

1:44

from Iowa to now?

1:46

Yes?

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I also think George Kittle has the best like

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in game support.

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What am I looking for here? Like the in game kind

1:54

of like we'll just explain what

1:56

I'm talking about. You can see if you can le okay, okay.

1:59

When he gets a first down, I love that they

2:01

do the glass Shatterstone called Steve Austin theme

2:03

song like his. I don't know

2:05

if that's like home run music kind of like

2:09

fair or interactive

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PA first down George Kittle.

2:15

No no, no, no no no, Like

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that would get me so pumped up.

2:19

And he is a wrestler, like he literally plays like

2:21

he is a WWE wrattler.

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He looks like one too, with the long hair.

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Twenty sixteen, the Kansas City Chiefs

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took a wide receiver. He ended up

2:30

not doing it very much in the.

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NFL, though, are you?

2:33

Are you being sarcastic and incredibly Tyreek

2:35

Hill best receiver in football right now? Tyreek

2:37

Hill now with the Miami Dolphins, but a

2:39

fifth round pick by the Kansas City Chiefs back

2:42

in twenty and sixteen.

2:45

Do you remember his rookie year was

2:47

the year the Steelers went to Arrowhead and

2:49

beat the Chiefs in the in the playoffs and the playoffs.

2:52

I believe that was the second round before he

2:54

and Kelsey really found their superpower. Well,

2:56

Kelsey I think was already getting there.

2:58

Yeah, any his rookie

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year, everyone knew who tyreang Hill

3:02

was.

3:03

The returns right, I mean, yes, you turn game was

3:05

unbelievable.

3:05

But also Mahomes wasn't there to air

3:08

it out, so he wasn't going nuts

3:10

as a receiver yet.

3:11

Because twenty is Alex Smith twenty fifteen.

3:13

This guy in the headlines a lot this

3:15

offseason. Wide receiver Minnesota

3:18

Viking draft pick Diggs

3:22

Viking Bill now at Texan, but

3:24

great value.

3:25

In the fifth round. Yeah for sure. Where do you

3:27

go to college Maryland, Maryland.

3:29

I didn't know that. Uh

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twenty eleven, a corner was taken that could

3:34

shut down.

3:35

Both Diggs or Hill, or at least give you a good effort if

3:37

you had him, if you needed him to Seattle

3:39

Seahawks.

3:41

Cam Chancellor, Nope, Oh there's

3:43

Sam Chanceller. Was a safety?

3:45

Was he?

3:45

Richard Sherman out of Stanford.

3:48

The legion of boom was Cam Chancellor,

3:51

Richard Sherman, Thomas, Earl

3:54

Thomas, and one more.

3:55

Remember the other?

3:56

The other cornerback? Thanks

3:58

for exposing us two thousand and

4:01

eight, Matthew Slater from the

4:03

New England Patriots.

4:04

Sure like really,

4:07

he's a special team. Yes.

4:10

Kyle Williams, defensive tackle for the Buffalo

4:12

Bills.

4:13

By the way, we were fine. There

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were only three big names.

4:16

Sherman, Earl Thomas, Cam Chancellor, and

4:18

then Bobby Wax was the guy up front.

4:22

Kyle Williams d tackle for the Buffalo Bills.

4:24

I just remember him for the Bill. A great player, great

4:26

defensive tackle, played for thirteen

4:29

seasons with the worst Buffalo Bills

4:31

teams ever and then retired

4:33

after twenty eighteen, either

4:36

right at that beginning of them making the playoffs

4:39

or just missing the playoffs in that era

4:41

of success for the Buffalo Bills. So just

4:45

a great player in a franchise's history that never

4:47

really got to witness some team success. Trent

4:50

Cole defensive end in two thousand and five went

4:52

to the Iggles. Robert Mathis

4:54

two thousand and three, defensive endles the Indianapolis

4:57

Colts.

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That's a good one. Zach Thomas,

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great linebacker.

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Hall of Fame linebacker going to

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the Dolphins in nineteen ninety

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six. You remember this guy,

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Joe Horn wide receiver, wide

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receiver for the Saints.

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But he wasn't.

5:12

Drafted by the same No, he was drafted

5:15

by the Chiefs.

5:16

But then but then had

5:18

his one play that he was known define

5:20

his career cell phone celebration.

5:22

He was a role player in four seasons with the Chiefs. Then

5:25

he became a star and made four Pro Bowls in five

5:27

seasons once he went to New Orleans and played for the

5:29

Saints. Joe Horn was like one

5:31

of those players where he was at

5:33

the top of the game at wide receiver or not,

5:35

you know what I mean.

5:36

He wasn't Moss, he wasn't to but he was

5:39

a.

5:39

Known wide receiver for New Orleans when I was

5:41

like coming online as a kid, like

5:44

playing fantasy. Ye, also like I love Joe

5:46

Horn. Like Joe Horn was like, I know who this guy

5:48

is.

5:48

He's great. Give me Joe Horn. See, I don't know if

5:50

I was league.

5:53

League knowledgable, league

5:56

wide knowledgeable at that point when he was coming on,

5:58

but as much as I am. Okay, but

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I obviously knew Joe Horn.

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Like my knowledge of him was the self

6:05

a self hone, but it was so badass.

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Nineteen ninety four, the Chargers took a safety

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who had a more

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successful part of his career elsewhere,

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Rodney Harrison, now studio

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analyst on NBC. We know him more as

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a Patriot, Yeah, I mean we know him

6:22

as a Patriot.

6:23

But he played fifteen seasons between.

6:24

The Chargers of the Patriots. We know him truly

6:26

as a Patriot. I mean he wonted Super Bowls with the Patriots.

6:29

Nineteen ninety three. Mark Brunell okay,

6:33

Green Bay Packers. Brunell

6:36

really became known more for the Jaguars

6:38

runs that he had with those early Jacksonville

6:41

teams. Let's see

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here, here's a Steeler

6:45

that shows up on the list. I'll mention

6:47

him now because we're not gonna have him in our Okay, five, we

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can talk about him now. They have Hardy Nickerson

6:52

here at nineteen eighty seven. Okay, he always picked

6:54

him in ninety erzent. He got a

6:56

jump start though when he went to Tampa Yeah.

6:58

Like he was an okay, six years of Pittsburgh

7:01

Steelers. Yeah, and then he

7:03

went to Tampa Bay and he made five Pro Bowls.

7:05

He holds the NFL record in single season tackles.

7:08

He had two hundred and fourteen tackles in

7:10

nineteen ninety three. One of the

7:12

best middle linebackers for sure of his

7:14

era.

7:15

He won the Super Bowl on that Tampa Bay team, right,

7:17

he was.

7:18

On that Checking that for you, I mean he was drafted in nineteen eighty

7:20

seven. That's a long way to play to

7:22

take it to that Super Bowl. I'm just gonna say you're wrong.

7:24

I'm not gonna check that.

7:27

But he is more of a great Tampa Bay buccaneer

7:29

than he is a Pittsburgh Steeler.

7:30

You can't even debate it. I

7:33

won't even try to debate you.

7:36

I can't even shot to Tom Tom.

7:39

He didn't he wasn't on that team.

7:41

But he played until two thousand and

7:43

two, so he was still.

7:45

In the league.

7:46

I mean, all time great players

7:48

played for that long. Nineteen

7:50

eighty five, you could argue maybe the best third

7:53

round pick or fifth round pick herschel Walker

7:55

running back Dallas count.

7:56

Yeah, and now he's getting into

7:58

politics, and yeah.

8:00

We don't need to talking about it. Yeah, nineteen eighty

8:02

five. People know about this guy, Kevin

8:05

Green.

8:06

He was the Rams fifth round nice Steelers

8:10

fifth round pick, and then

8:12

of course had those amazing years with Pittsburgh

8:14

and then also went on to play.

8:15

For Carolina and San Francisco.

8:17

Favorite thing about Kevin Green not

8:19

the hair, although love the hair

8:22

is if you play on multiple

8:24

teams, you can pick if you go to the

8:26

Hall of Fame, which which

8:29

you know ward or which section he wants

8:31

to be enshrined in. And he was only in Pittsburgh

8:33

for three years, so it was the best three years

8:35

of my career. And he is enshrined

8:38

in the Hall of Fame as a Pittsburgh Steeler.

8:40

Isn't that awesome?

8:41

Gonna skip?

8:42

I actually have a Kevin Green jersey

8:45

too.

8:45

Nice. That's a good jersey.

8:46

Number Another guy on this list I'm gonna

8:48

skip because he's a Steeler and we will get to him

8:50

later. But I'm

8:52

not gonna skip this guy. This

8:55

guy, everybody's gonna know this name. This is gonna

8:57

bring a smile to a lot of people's names. Nineteen fifty

8:59

nine, the Cleveland Browns took

9:01

a cornerback by the name of Dick

9:04

LeBeau in the.

9:07

Of the NFL Draft.

9:11

As he had an okay career as a player,

9:13

an okay coaching career afterwards,

9:16

too.

9:17

We can forgive him for being drafted by the Well

9:19

did he I thought he did pretty well as a player.

9:21

No, I was mean. He did an amazing at the

9:23

player.

9:24

He was like one of the most interceptions of all He's on like the

9:26

all time interceptions list. He's a great, great

9:28

player. He's a Hall of Fame as a player. He

9:31

is a Hall of Famer as a player. I know that for a fact.

9:34

Yeah, don't even have to say think trust

9:36

yourself, Tom. Come on, all

9:38

right, let's get to the Steelers and they're all time

9:41

top five draft picks. The

9:43

first fifth round draft pick ever made in franchise history

9:45

was a fullback in nineteen thirty six by

9:47

the name of Dick Sandifer, and

9:49

from that point on when they took Dick out of Purdue.

9:52

The rest has been history. When it comes to the fifth round.

9:55

And they took what out of Purdue. I'm

9:57

not going to say that again, you bastard.

9:59

All right, John wasnack. John

10:01

Wozniak made a Pro Bowl. He

10:04

was drafted in nineteen forty

10:06

eight by the Steelers. But he made his Pro Bowl

10:09

with a team named the Dallas Texans back

10:11

then. So he can get the hell out of here. Anybody

10:14

else have good success Pro Bowl

10:16

success. How about Abner Haynes

10:19

back in nineteen sixty out of North Texas,

10:21

a two time All Pro and

10:24

a Pro Bowler. Didn't play a.

10:26

Down for the Pittsburgh Steelers.

10:27

Though was drafted by them, didn't play

10:29

a down for them, So Abner, you're dead. You're

10:31

dead to me. A pretty good career though for

10:34

Abner. Great name too, back in nineteen

10:36

sixty. That is, that's like the mic right

10:38

back in nineteen sixty or the gym

10:40

just Abner.

10:42

You were meeting Abner's left

10:44

and right, like all the time, everybody had an uncle

10:46

Abner, you know what I mean? Like I don't think so

10:48

you don't, okay, uh

10:50

oh, there's a guy.

10:51

That might make my list from nineteen seventy one.

10:53

There's a guy in nineteen seventy four that definitely will

10:55

make my list. Book Mark those two guys and

10:58

get back to them later. This

11:00

guy in nineteen eighty out of Syracuse, Okay, we'll

11:02

get to him later too. We

11:04

mentioned Hardy Nickerson to the nineteen eighty seven

11:06

first round pick. I

11:09

would love to see if he could have exploded right,

11:11

like, if he could have found that form

11:14

in Pittsburgh, could have been another in

11:16

a long line of just great linebackers

11:19

in this franchise's history.

11:21

But you gotta give him credit for at least identifying

11:23

that he had.

11:24

That potential, even if he didn't

11:26

realize that potential right

11:28

away.

11:29

Let's skip ahead over some guys. Now.

11:31

Leaf Flowers played for five years.

11:33

Who cares about leaf Flowers? Sorry?

11:37

Lee Veron Haynes in two

11:39

thousand and two, ultimate third

11:41

down running back? Yeah, Brian

11:43

Saint Pierre, how about that backup quarterback back

11:45

in two thousand and three.

11:47

I used to love playing with Saint Pierre and Madden.

11:50

But you know what I would do. I mean, he would always

11:52

be the guy that was holding the kicks. Yeah,

11:54

oh yeah, the field goals.

11:55

Yeah, Cliff Stout

11:57

another quarterback in nineteen seventy

11:59

seven.

12:00

Forgot to mention him. Steelers took him in nineteen

12:02

seventy seven. Let's

12:04

see you were at Saint Pierre.

12:06

We got some slim picking Nate Dennis

12:08

Dixon another quarterback.

12:10

Okay, did he win that game against Baltimore and Home?

12:13

He did win one game for the Steelers.

12:15

Stevenson Sylvester. I mean

12:17

I remember that name, but not a

12:20

lot of not a lot of I.

12:22

Don't remember this name. The other twenty

12:24

ten for fourth fifth round pick, first

12:27

four third.

12:27

Great name, but I don't remember.

12:29

Name my children, John John, Paul Bill

12:31

get in here, first four, third, fourth,

12:33

what we're round are in Cresden

12:35

Butler, great name, Clemson, I

12:37

don't remember.

12:38

I don't remember.

12:39

I mean I don't remember him, or Chris Scott

12:41

or Chris Carter or Chris Rainey.

12:43

I remember, I remember Chris Rainey.

12:44

Don't remember Terry Hawthorne, Remember Johnson,

12:47

don't remember Shaq Richardson, Remember

12:49

Jase.

12:50

Forget about Jesse James, No, I mean

12:52

he was about I wish

12:54

I could forget about the play that he was taking. Forget about

12:57

Jesse James.

12:57

I wish I canna go back in time and just never take Jesse

12:59

James. Maybe a tight end that doesn't

13:01

drop the football. He didn't drop

13:03

the he dropped the football, just finished the play.

13:06

And we don't even have to debate this, all right, uh?

13:09

Jalen Samuels in twenty eighteen,

13:11

Marcus Allen.

13:11

So yesterday when we were talking, Uh,

13:14

when we were doing our third Round episode

13:17

Best Third Time Picks. I mistook,

13:21

mistaken, mistook, Marcus

13:24

ooketh, mistooke Marcus

13:26

Allen for justin lane. Marcus Allen

13:29

was the thorn in the side that would

13:31

always yap and

13:34

chirp and would get penalized,

13:36

and he would do it so often, and I don't

13:38

know why there weren't penalties

13:41

internally to get him to stop.

13:44

He was also the big locker room

13:47

aggressor, didn't really keep

13:49

things formal and professional there.

13:52

So bye bye, Marcus Allen.

13:56

Zach Gentry twenty nineteen, still active,

13:58

Isaiah Loudermilk twenty twenty one, still

14:00

active. It's the only two guys that are

14:02

still active right now though for Steelers

14:05

or for the NFL in general.

14:06

Those are also the last two fifth

14:08

round picks, so the Steelers didn't have any

14:10

in twenty twenty, any in twenty

14:13

twenty two, or any in twenty twenty three.

14:16

He needs the fifth round.

14:17

Really well, a

14:22

friend of mine from nineteen seventy four

14:24

would like to

14:26

clap back.

14:27

And that's where we start with the Hall

14:29

of Famer in nineteen seventy

14:32

fours draft class picked

14:34

in the fifth round. It is Mike

14:36

Webster Webby. Yeah,

14:39

what else could you say about the guy? I mean, he's one

14:42

of the all time best centers ever. Yep,

14:46

the best center in Steeart's history. And that's

14:48

a long list when it comes to centers in Stewart's

14:51

history. Played forever,

14:54

played from nineteen seventy five

14:57

until nineteen eighty nineteen

14:59

ninety.

15:00

Until Ben Roethlisberger retired. Mike

15:02

Webster was the longest payer Steeler

15:04

ever.

15:05

He played center right, I

15:09

mean and emotion he

15:12

took a lot and that hurt his health later

15:14

life and rest in peace, of course, but he

15:17

played center for that long and at

15:19

that much of a level. I mean, I mean, that's

15:21

like Jason Kelsey playing like five more years.

15:23

Liker just an incredible

15:26

player. I mean we know that in

15:28

the Steelers. Now we can establish

15:30

this.

15:30

They have had a Hall of Famer in rounds

15:33

one through five in their history.

15:35

And we know this one.

15:37

We also know the other two

15:39

great centers in Steelers history, to Marney Dawson

15:41

and Marcus Pouncy barely

15:44

played a decade, if.

15:45

Not a little bit more than that, just a little bit

15:47

more.

15:48

Compared to Webby, who was

15:50

eighteen years You said eighteen

15:52

years, Yeah, insane, Just

15:55

to get a little bit ahead of myself too here. So the

15:57

Steelers, like I said, they have at least one

15:59

Hall of Famer in round one, two, three, four, and

16:01

five.

16:02

They don't have him in six or seven. They

16:05

should have one in six though, right,

16:07

like they should go right,

16:11

but like they technically should have one in six.

16:13

They don't have one in seven. There's not really anyone right

16:15

now that is knocking

16:17

on the door at seven. But like they

16:20

should realistically forget

16:22

should they do realistically have the

16:24

ability to boast we have picked a Hall of Famer

16:27

in rounds one through six in

16:29

the NFL draft. It's incredible. I

16:31

don't know if he gets in, right,

16:33

but you know what I mean, he is a Hall of Famer.

16:35

Yeah, even if he doesn't get in, Like Fortende's

16:38

layer Fitzgerald and retires early or whatever and

16:40

doesn't make a peep.

16:41

Those numbers. They in the Hall of Fame first

16:43

ballot.

16:44

Yeah, well he's a Hall of Fame player, but

16:47

maybe he's not a Hall of Fame.

16:48

Per I can't even say separate off the field

16:50

from on the field, because on the field he's still.

16:52

It would be great if we just cause problem him as

16:54

a player. We're like as a person. As a

16:56

player, he's going to cause problems.

16:59

You have a lot of those problems for the other team,

17:01

the other defensive back.

17:02

Sure, but I just

17:04

want his you know. Like what I'm

17:07

trying to say is like on the field, off the field. On

17:09

the field, he took off his jersey in

17:11

pads.

17:12

And that was for the Bucks. Who cares,

17:14

doesn't matter he did it.

17:16

Uh. Yeah, we are talking about the Hall of Fame, not the Home Honor.

17:19

I did see him tweet, you don't think. First

17:24

of all, I've seen his

17:26

Twitter account one hundred percent run by

17:28

somebody else because it's just too smart

17:31

sometimes to be him, And honestly.

17:33

It's too clever clever.

17:35

It's very crude and over

17:37

the line a lot of the times.

17:39

But some of the times. This is kind of funny.

17:41

It's just not him.

17:42

There's just no way there's he's not keeping up with

17:44

pop culture as much as the account

17:46

is.

17:47

You can tell sometimes when it is a b tweeting.

17:49

Yeah. One of the tweets of the account

17:51

recently put out there was ab Hall of Honor

17:53

class and he edited himself next

17:55

to like Moon Mullins in like the Aaron

17:57

side in the picture that he chose

18:00

was the jumping on the goalpost

18:02

against the.

18:03

Course beat the of

18:05

course it was.

18:07

He really is one of a kind that

18:09

doesn't always necessarily mean a positive

18:11

when you say that to somebody, though. All right, uh

18:14

so we got Webby and number one, number

18:17

two I put Barry Foster.

18:19

That's fair. We just talked about this off

18:21

the air.

18:22

At the time of his retirement, you

18:24

could say he was the second best running back in franchise

18:27

history.

18:27

Just unfortunate that his career

18:29

cut short.

18:30

Only played the five seasons, but

18:33

was at first team All Pro in nineteen

18:36

ninety two, was second

18:39

Offensive Player of the Year in nineteen

18:41

ninety two, was second in

18:43

MVP in nineteen ninety

18:45

two.

18:46

You know who he lost to in

18:49

nineteen ninety two.

18:50

Yep, he lost out to this guy in both the Offensive

18:53

Player of the Year and the MVP is.

18:54

Brett Varv Steve Young. Oh

18:57

he beat out Emmitt Smith. He got more of a Smith

19:01

and both.

19:01

During Emmittt's peak with the Cowboys too. Harry

19:03

Foster was awesome.

19:04

Yeah, awesome. So the only other sixteen

19:07

ninety that was this rush total that year.

19:10

So Franco was obviously number one. John

19:13

Henry Johnson, I'm

19:15

sure people like LABS can make the argument

19:17

for but he's listed as

19:19

a full back.

19:20

Oh little technicality. Franco

19:22

was listed as a fullback sometimes too though, but he did.

19:25

Play halfback two and Rocky was

19:28

true fullback of that team. They were

19:30

kind of both full back. Yeah, I guess they

19:32

both had their hand in the dirt. I'd be interested

19:34

to hear LABS take on that between

19:36

John Henry Johnson, Like, do you consider John

19:38

Henry Johnson a true enough Frenny back to

19:41

put him in there because we're Rocky.

19:43

We had a good point, Rocky, But John

19:46

Hendry Johnson's a Hall of Famer. Yeah,

19:50

Rocky's a Hall of Honor member.

19:52

But I mean, so just

19:54

me personally, I mean, Franco's number one.

19:57

Are we going all the time? Are we going up and up?

19:59

UNTI till I'm sure.

20:01

We can go all time?

20:02

I mean, but I'm just gonna do my own personal biases,

20:04

like Frank goes number one, but like.

20:07

Jerome's number two.

20:08

Save yeah, I guess Jerome's

20:10

number two, then last number three, and

20:13

then it's probably Rocky number four, probably very

20:15

I think very.

20:16

I mean Foster was second in the MVP

20:18

EVO. Okay, it's here,

20:21

it's one year, got six, you got six,

20:23

you got and then's got to be.

20:25

Yeah, Franco, you got Jerome,

20:27

you got lev you got Barry,

20:30

you got Rocky, you got JGJ.

20:32

And then you got that.

20:33

Next like way of like fast Willie,

20:35

Like he's sure not in all pro, but he's

20:37

got to be remembered nause.

20:41

Croaching not yet, but three straight years of one thousand

20:44

yards is a good start.

20:44

I mean, how about I mean, you

20:48

could say he's top ten running back in franchise

20:50

and Harris maybe.

20:52

We can, but let's not, okay,

20:54

all right, Barry Foster number two, number

20:57

three. I mean, you know, you get a little stretchy

20:59

here. You know, someone listened to this and like

21:01

I don't know North Dakota

21:04

is gonna be like, I don't really even remember this

21:06

guy is Pittsburgh. Will though I

21:08

got big play Willie Gay coming in and oh yeah.

21:12

Drafted in two thousand and seven in the

21:14

fifth round by the Steelers. Uh played

21:16

for the Steelers two thousand and seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven,

21:19

went to Arizona for a year, then

21:21

came back to the Steelers in twenty thirteen and played

21:23

the rest of his career here in Pittsburgh.

21:26

So weird, little blip on his radar,

21:28

so close to being a career Steeler.

21:30

I bet you he might regret that right,

21:32

not to say that.

21:33

He didn't get paid by Arizona and he came back to

21:35

Pittsburgh and he won the Super Bowls in Pittsburgh and blah

21:37

blah blah blah blah. Great, he had a great career for

21:39

him. But don't you think, you know, maybe a

21:41

little bit of truism. He'd be like, I'd like to look at my Pro

21:43

Football reference page and see.

21:45

That Pitt Pitt, Pitt, Pitt, Pitt, Pitt Pitt

21:47

all the way down the line.

21:49

Maybe that's just my brain, maybe that's just how I work,

21:51

But like when I see those players that have that

21:53

same team from start to.

21:54

Finish just something.

21:55

It's just something extra special about Let get

21:57

go on sid's Hockey reference page right

21:59

now, it's just twenty rows

22:02

that say pit one after the other. Ben

22:04

Roethlisberger with the Steelers seventeen

22:07

rows pit run after the other.

22:09

You know what I'm saying.

22:10

Though, Yeah, it gives you a little extra like with

22:12

Brady, greatest quarterback ever. But I still

22:14

gotta look at those two TVs at the bottom of his list

22:17

after all the nwees.

22:18

I'm just I'm just a jerk. I have ADHD

22:21

whatever, it's it's my own dumb rain here. But

22:23

I save me, Jacob.

22:25

Start talking, please, well, Willie

22:27

Gay, what you have to mention is

22:30

I believe he's this franchise

22:32

leader and interceptions return for a

22:34

touchdown.

22:35

That's why you call him big play And I believe.

22:38

I don't now, I have no idea, so I'm

22:40

not going to stand on a hill

22:43

and say I'm one hundred percent correct when I say this,

22:45

But I think that.

22:46

He had like four turnovers.

22:50

In a row that all went for touchdowns,

22:53

which is some kind of crazy record.

22:55

Also, he had.

22:56

Three pick sixes and twenty fourteen three.

22:59

That's an inane to have that many pick sixes.

23:02

That's like Dion Sanders level of

23:04

a returnability. He

23:06

had a total of five pick sixes

23:08

in his career. Great

23:11

player for what you where

23:14

you drafted him, Like I feel comfortable saying

23:16

that for sure.

23:16

So I'm seeing this time.

23:18

He had one interception in

23:21

all of twenty thirteen that was returned

23:23

for a touchdown. He had three interceptions

23:25

and all of twenty fourteen, all of them

23:27

went for a touchdowns. He had two picks

23:30

in twenty fifteen, one of which

23:32

went for a touchdown touchdown.

23:33

That's why he got a big play with leage game nickname. Every time

23:35

he touches the ball, he's in the end zone.

23:37

I don't know if those five came

23:40

all on consecutive order, but

23:42

to have five pick sixes in three

23:45

years is insane.

23:48

And my favorite of all the pick sixes was the one

23:50

in twenty fifteen when.

23:51

Oh with the longest So that does I

23:54

don't know what kind of official a

23:56

Joe kind of record of longest

23:58

touchdown celebration ever.

24:00

Senior was just such a clay. Oh my

24:02

god, I haven't seen there.

24:04

I remember too, Like when you watch that touchdown

24:06

celebration. There's like four different moments where

24:08

Gays like ready to stop and starts stogging, and.

24:13

There at one I think ab was

24:15

one of the first people out there.

24:17

Oh. I love being the Bengals so much.

24:19

God, these teams hate us like they.

24:21

Have They have good reason to hate us

24:23

too, rob in their faces when

24:25

we win.

24:26

Another guy that you kind of mentioned a little

24:28

bit early, jumped the gun on him in the last episode.

24:30

I have Clark Haagan's coming in with my

24:33

number four, number

24:35

five. I did like a Chewbacca thing there

24:37

with my voice four. I couldn't

24:39

even do that again if I tried to. But

24:41

yeah, Clark Haagan's just a really solid

24:44

player for the Steelers. Again, kind

24:46

of in that same voat as Willie Gay, although

24:48

I'd say since I had him hire on my list, Willie Gay had

24:50

a little bit more of an impact. But you know,

24:52

again, Hagen's just for

24:54

a guy you picked in the fifth round to

24:56

get that kind of depth production out of him and then

24:59

have him star art in two thousand and four, five, six,

25:01

and seven for you, there's

25:04

not much more you can ask when you're drafting at that point.

25:06

So Clark Haagan's was an absolute stunning

25:09

pick.

25:09

By the Steelers.

25:11

Yes, I mean, like we said,

25:13

a great member with if

25:15

you want to overlap

25:17

that era of two thousands

25:20

linebackers with Larry

25:22

Foot, James Ferrier, Clark Hagan's,

25:24

Joey Porter, James Harrison.

25:26

Lamar Woodley, I mean, I

25:28

don't think it gets better than that. And

25:31

then number five.

25:33

I didn't know anyone else that deserved

25:36

this spot more.

25:37

And I guess we should say before we name number.

25:40

Five, I have to talk about Larry

25:42

Brown a little bit because he is a fifth round

25:44

pick, did make a Pro Bowl,

25:47

he won four Super Bowls, and of course there's

25:49

that famous fact

25:51

about him switching from tight end to

25:54

tackle when the team was so depleted of injury

25:56

and they needed help with the tackle spot. He

25:59

played tight end from nineteen seventy one to nineteen

26:01

seventy six, and then from nineteen seventy seven

26:03

to nineteen eighty four.

26:04

He played tackle for the Steelers. I mean, Hall of honor.

26:06

Remember, just a total total

26:09

beast for the Pittsburgh Steelers. And sure

26:12

he's probably really the number five pick.

26:14

I just got so much love for this guy. I

26:17

couldn't help myself. I got Craig

26:19

Wolfley coming in at number five. Wolf,

26:21

the nineteen eighty fifth round pick by the Pittsburgh

26:23

Steelers out of Syracuse, played

26:26

all the way up until nineteen ninety one, of

26:28

course, with two years at the end with the Minnesota

26:30

Vikings, but known for his

26:33

time as a Pittsburgh

26:35

Steeler, went healthy a starter every

26:38

year since his second year and

26:41

up until nineteen eighty nine when he was

26:44

starting to exit Pittsburgh and he was thirty one years

26:46

old. But man, Wolf with that

26:48

left guard spot, really

26:51

really solid member of that nineteen eighty Pittsburgh

26:53

Steelers decade. Definitely

26:57

just and do you think he

26:59

ever you know, we'll get to touch in.

27:01

The next

27:03

episode. Yeah, yeah, sixth round buddy?

27:06

Ever think I think you have to

27:09

because Pro Bowls? But do you ever think Wolf was Like I got

27:11

drafted in front of you though? Are

27:13

you talking about Hall of Honor? No?

27:15

No, no, I'm saying, like, well, Wolf, I think we'll get

27:17

into But yeah, I was just talking about you know, the old

27:19

buddy, how you rid your buddy like because touch

27:21

could always be like I made the Pro Bowl?

27:22

Like do you think Wolf was ever? Like? What do

27:25

you mean?

27:25

What do you mean you heard it

27:27

heard too.

27:30

Every day. They would joke about that

27:32

because Tounch would say, oh, you always

27:34

claim you were syrah huse graduate.

27:37

You never graduated. And Wolf

27:39

would punch back by saying, yeah, but at least I got drafted

27:41

earlier than you did.

27:44

So shout out to uh Wolf the wolf

27:47

Le's fourth round pick with Ron, a fifth round

27:49

pick with Craig.

27:50

Great value when you pick a Wolflee in those

27:53

rounds. There's that great pick.

27:55

I don't know if you've seen it when

27:57

they were all in college at

28:00

separate schools, Dale, Ron, and

28:02

and Chris.

28:03

I can send it to you. I think it's

28:06

no.

28:06

I think it's uh. I think the picture you're thinking of is

28:08

Dale. Are they in Virginia?

28:11

And the other has his Cardinals

28:13

jersey on? And Wolf has the Steelers jersey on? And Dale's

28:15

is West Virginia jersey on.

28:17

Let me check have save

28:19

somewhere on my phone. But

28:22

it's taken at West.

28:23

Virginia Stadium because they went for Dale.

28:25

Dale's in the middle, Ron's on the

28:27

left, Wolves on the It's all

28:29

of a sudden to you right now, it's an awesome correct

28:33

you?

28:34

Right now?

28:35

All right, we come back, we're gonna

28:37

continue our series. We've got so many series

28:40

that we're continuing on this show. We give you so much great

28:42

content here. We're gonna continue

28:44

ranking the best position group

28:46

or the best players in each position group. Currently

28:49

in the NFL. We're at Insidelnebackers

28:51

today. There's gonna be a Pittsburgh Steeler in there

28:54

term and almost a decade.

28:55

I'm excited for it. So we got our power

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