Andrew Perloff of SI.com is so over the draft. So much so that he’s already mocking next years draft. Here’s the link. Now we’ll mock him. (be sure to read the comments, good stuff)
Apparently we are going to address the DL NEXT year. We are mocked up to take Michael Johnson, DE from Georgia Tech. [...]
All things considered I think we’ll look back at this as a very good draft. I love that we didn’t reach to fill a position when the players that seemed to fill our immediate needs were no longer available. I love that we got two very promising playmakers for less than the perceived market value. [...]
Round 1. Rashard Mendenhall, RB - University of Illinois
Round 2. Limas Sweed, WR - University of Texas
Get to know Limas Sweed over at Behind the Steel Curtain. Exculsive content by poster PB @ BON
Round 3. Bruce Davis, LB - UCLA
Round 4. Tony Hills, OT - University of Texas
Since there is no highlight reel on YouTube [...]
A lot has been made about the Steelers obvious choice to not take specific positions of (apparent) need. From our outside perspecive it seems so obvious that we NEED a LT or a RG. It seems obvious that we need depth at the DL position (ok, that really is obvious). But, I’m not jumping off [...]
Hashmarks says that the “Steelers are stealing“…Yup, that’s what we do.
First thoughts…wasn’t crazy about the pick of Mendenhall. However, I think I spent absolutely no time even giving him a second thought because I didn’t think he’d be there. The more I think about it, the more I like RM alot. The backfield may get a [...]
Limas Sweed, WR - Texas
Wow…I think we may have considered taking Limas in the first round. We got him 30 picks later in round 2. I LOVE it. I miss the old “chuck the ball into the corner of the endzone” play. There is more than one way to address the OL weaknesses…and that is [...]
Rashard Mendenhall, RB - Illinois
And…how ridiculous is the practice of mock drafting now. Especially for the 2nd half of the 1st round, and certainly beyond. Of the 3 billion mock drafts listed in the previous post, not a single one had Mendenhall as a Pittsburgh Steelers RB. Wow.
UPDATE: NO ONE GOT IT RIGHT. HOWEVER…I will give a pat on the back to Steve Silverman of NBC Sports. He picked Sweed to become a Steeler. In the first round.
The hype that is the NFL draft is ready to boil over. As I type ESPN is counting down the hours until kickoff the first [...]
*Which means, they really like being bad at football.
ESPN reports today that the Bengals turned down a ridiculously good offer from the Redskins (good for the Bengals, ridiculously bad for the ‘Skins).
Daniel Snyder and his crazy Wide Receiver fetish seems to be alive and well as the ‘Skins (a once proud and respected franchise) offered [...]
Saturday night a good friend and I went to pick up Chipotle for our wives and kids…
As we arrived, a fun, jovial kind of guy comes in after us, skips the entire “S” shaped line-forming apparatus to cut in front of us. Immediately he begins yapping about his slick “Chad Johnson” like moves and continues [...]
