Pittsburgh Steelers general manager Kevin Colbert spoke to the media on Sunday during the NFL owners meeting. Colbert discussed the current state of the team in terms of the upcoming NFL draft. The Steelers currently have 10 picks and as Colbert pointed out this could be an opportunity for the team to move up.
There’s no way the Steelers are picking 10 players. This is a given. The only question is what type of move up are the Steelers thinking. Pittsburgh got a third and fifth-round pick when they traded wide receiver Antonio Brown and this is key.
The Steelers could use those picks to try to trade up in the first round for a better shot at an impact player on defense. The problem is there are only a few guys Pittsburgh might target and the cost to most up would be excessive.
A more plausible course of action could be for the Steelers to turn the high second-round pick they got from the Oakland Raiders into a mid-second round pick with some of those day-three picks. Get back up into the Top 50 picks and improve their chances of landing a rookie starter.
