Speaker 1: He's the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson on
Speaker 1: your twenty four seventh home of the Black and Gold
Speaker 1: SNR Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome back. I am Dale Lollly.
Speaker 1: He is Matt Williamson, and this is the Drive on
Speaker 1: Steelers Nation Radio. And Matt, we are going to do
Speaker 1: a little mock draft here again on Friday now that
Speaker 1: we know what through the first week of free agency
Speaker 1: and today we're going to use the draft simulator at
Speaker 1: fanspeak dot com. And uh well we're on the clock here.
Speaker 1: So the first the picks ahead of us, we're let's
Speaker 1: see here brace Young c J. Stroud, Miles Murphy at three,
Speaker 1: Jalen Carter at four, Brian Brussey at five, Wow, craziness,
Speaker 1: Tyree Wilson at six. So it's a heavy defense edge
Speaker 1: defense of lineman draft here thus far. On the seven
Speaker 1: is Paris Johnson, eight is Devin Witherspoon, nine is Broderick Jones, ten,
Speaker 1: Jean Robinson, eleven, Quintin Johnston, will Anderson goes all the
Speaker 1: way down at twelve. That just just doesn't really matter
Speaker 1: who goes work off the clock yet. Then Pete Scarronski,
Speaker 1: Jordan Addison, Michael mayor Kaylee Ringo goes at sixteen. H
Speaker 1: So I know where we're going with this. Christi Gazzalees
Speaker 1: is available. I think he's grabbing, as is Anthony Richardson,
Speaker 1: Joey Porter, Junior, Jackson Smith, and Jigbaum. Will Levis is available.
Speaker 1: Obviously the quarterbacks did not go early in this mock. Okay, Um,
Speaker 1: I think I mean so, I think it's also be
Speaker 1: there at seventeen. No, I also don't think Levis and
Speaker 1: Richardson will be there at seventeen either, nor do I
Speaker 1: if they were being picked in the first sixteen two
Speaker 1: would have been available that aren't. So I don't think
Speaker 1: this is supreme cheating by taking Gonzalez. No, I don't
Speaker 1: think so either, Right, why not we'll take him? Yeah,
Speaker 1: are trades with this one? They are not. So we
Speaker 1: just we gotta draft what we got a draft. Okay,
Speaker 1: So the rest of the first round, after we take Gonzalez,
Speaker 1: you got at eighteen Cam Smith to the Lions, nineteen,
Speaker 1: Will Levis to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. I think they'd
Speaker 1: be astatic about that. Anthony Richardson goes to the Seahawks, Well,
Speaker 1: they could, they could have flipped flopped that he you know, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: definitely changed things. Isaiah Fosky goes to the Chargers, Jackson
Speaker 1: Smith and Jigba to the Ravens, Brian Branch to the Vikings,
Speaker 1: Joey Porter to the Jaguars, Josh Downs to the Giants,
Speaker 1: Nolan Smith to the Cowboys, Darnel Right to the Bills,
Speaker 1: Anton Harrison to the Bengals, Deontay Banks to the Saints,
Speaker 1: Will McDonald to the Eagles, Jalen High to the Chiefs.
Speaker 1: So I'm pretty sure there's gonna be somebody here in
Speaker 1: the second round that we're gonna like, I'm sure. I'm sure, Hello, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: but that's not realistic either. I mean, thirty two is
Speaker 1: a nice spot in this draft. Yeah, okay, So who
Speaker 1: were looking at? So at thirty two, we're looking at
Speaker 1: Dalton Kincaid, Trent Smith, Trent and Smith. I should say,
Speaker 1: Za Flowers, Dewan Jones, Darnel Washington, b j olari O Cirius, Torrence,
Speaker 1: Emmanuel Forbes, Jamor Gibbs, Drew Sanders, John Michael Schmidt's at
Speaker 1: a Bowarie Cody Match, Mazie Smith, Lucas van Ness. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's Jack Campbell, Derek call there's a lot of guys
Speaker 1: here that Okay, yeah, Rusgrave, Musgrave is there, Matthew berzer
Speaker 1: On is there. Um, I'm just jotting down names as
Speaker 1: you're Some of the names I jotted down, I might
Speaker 1: have missed some Kincaid and Musgrave. I prefer Musgrave, Sanders
Speaker 1: the linebacker, Um, Michael schmidts van Ness. I think burg
Speaker 1: around is a pretty good prospect too that I think
Speaker 1: really will go right right around this neighborhood. I worry
Speaker 1: it might be a part of Yeah, we took a
Speaker 1: corner in the first round, so we can cross that off.
Speaker 1: Do you go for Sanders or do you go for
Speaker 1: Simpson in terms of a the linebacker position based on
Speaker 1: what the Steelers have done right right, I think both
Speaker 1: of them are Campbell now. I like Campbell a lot,
Speaker 1: just because they have immense upside. Yeah, I still think
Speaker 1: I like Sanders better than Simpson. I think he's a
Speaker 1: better football player right now. Yeah, fine with taking him there.
Speaker 1: I'm fine with that. Or do you want to do
Speaker 1: you want to take a roll the dice? Take a
Speaker 1: one of the offensive linemen here. I mean, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of different ways you can you can do this.
Speaker 1: But what's happened here already. I think Sanders is what
Speaker 1: this defense needs, you know, I mean kind of a
Speaker 1: placeholder there and Roberts. Sanders can learn you can still
Speaker 1: rush off the edge. Maybe if you had a third
Speaker 1: outside linebacker signed at this point, I wouldn't go that direction.
Speaker 1: But as it stands now, I think he has value
Speaker 1: of doing both. You know, I love Musgrave, but there's
Speaker 1: a lot of tight ends. Yeah, and they haven't gone.
Speaker 1: That's the other thing. Yeah. Yeah, it's only been one
Speaker 1: picked at this point. I bet there will be one,
Speaker 1: you know, in fifteen picks or whatever. I think Sanders
Speaker 1: is my vote. But okay, we'll take Sanders, all right.
Speaker 1: So Christian Zalez Drew Sanders. We're back up again. Now.
Speaker 1: The top players available Darnell Washington, Jamir Gibbs, John Michael Schmidts,
Speaker 1: Keanu Benton, Luke Musgrave in Duque Zoma from k State,
Speaker 1: Zach Charbonnet, the running back out of UCLA, Tyreek, Stevenson,
Speaker 1: Julius Brent's interesting. But yeah, yeah, I know, but man,
Speaker 1: he's a guy. Could he sneak into the first round? Yeah?
Speaker 1: With that size, Yeah, I forget it. It's terrible. I
Speaker 1: forget his name, but the rookie from Seattle that shouldn't
Speaker 1: have win as late as he did. That was super. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's a trick will in part two, except he played
Speaker 1: it played at a bigger program. I've been every war
Speaker 1: rooms going, We're not making that mistake again. I'm taking
Speaker 1: the big guy that could run with thirty four inch arms,
Speaker 1: you know, right, Like, I think he's guaranteed to go
Speaker 1: in the top fifty. Like it wouldn't shock me if
Speaker 1: he's still at this point or the Steeler's third pick.
Speaker 1: But he's not gonna last long. He's just rare. And
Speaker 1: that's so if you could get him at thirty two
Speaker 1: or forty yeah, right right. You know, if this at
Speaker 1: this spot at forty nine, that's not a bad consolation prize.
Speaker 1: Tell Patrick Peterson to coach him up, and yeah, you
Speaker 1: don't need him in day one, you know. I think
Speaker 1: that's very much at play, and I like that more
Speaker 1: and more. Like if two corners are off the board
Speaker 1: at seventeen, I might take that approach rather than jumping
Speaker 1: on Porter. Yeah, I'm with you. I think I think
Speaker 1: at that point there may be somebody else that you
Speaker 1: like better to have a higher grade on veriable, whether
Speaker 1: it be one of the offensive lineman, whether it be
Speaker 1: a Smith and Jagba, whoever, and to beyond. Honest, we
Speaker 1: can't do this, but I might rather have if we
Speaker 1: could rewind ten minutes of podcasting, I might rather have Smith,
Speaker 1: Nijigba and Brents than Gonzo and whoever we take here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, just because I means corners
Speaker 1: are He's really intriguing and he would fit in extremely well,
Speaker 1: and they really like length, and I mean I bet
Speaker 1: they're high on him. So the offensive tackle is still available.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna go down list this list here a
Speaker 1: little bit. So you get Blake Freeland, Jalen Duncan, Ryan Hayes,
Speaker 1: Jackson Kirkland, Tyler Steen, Janya Morris, t J. Bass, O'Connor, Galvin,
Speaker 1: Carter Warren. So a lot of these guys are more rough. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's that's drying up at this point. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I can't take Fred Freeland's the only one I would consider.
Speaker 1: And I know he's super athletic, but he's not very strong,
Speaker 1: and he's really tall. I can just see high Smith
Speaker 1: and Watt getting under his pads and driving him back
Speaker 1: in camp time and time again. I mean, I kind
Speaker 1: of like him, but with what else is on the
Speaker 1: board here, All those tight Ends or John Michael Schmidt's
Speaker 1: to me are much more attractive. Like everyone knows, I
Speaker 1: love mus Gray, I would jump on Musgrave, but Washington
Speaker 1: from Georgia as my gentry replacement is so appealing to me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I actually have Tipman Joe Tipman rated ahead of John
Speaker 1: Mike SCHMIDTZ Now, Okay, I get it. I just think
Speaker 1: his athleticism. I think he's yeah, you know, now, maybe
Speaker 1: maybe you feel like he's more of a guard. You know,
Speaker 1: you don't want your senator to be six six? I
Speaker 1: get that. Yeah, yeah, um, so you know, maybe that
Speaker 1: changes what you're looking for here. Um, but I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't hate either one of those guys. I think
Speaker 1: I think they're both gonna be good football players. Um
Speaker 1: what about defensive line? What about say a Keyanu Benton here?
Speaker 1: Betton was the name I had written down as well.
Speaker 1: I like the tight ends better. I like Michael Schmidt's better.
Speaker 1: I might like Tippton better. But if you don't take
Speaker 1: Benton here, you might you're not gonna get yet how
Speaker 1: you might go and you know, you get as we
Speaker 1: saw in this draft, the way this draft fell, And
Speaker 1: again this is why we do these things, because it
Speaker 1: throws different curveballs at you. We saw a bunch of
Speaker 1: defensive linemen and edge guys go early, right right right?
Speaker 1: So now how do you adjust? How do you adjust?
Speaker 1: Because now it's Keanu Betton, it's Gervin Dexter. I don't
Speaker 1: love Eka. I don't either. I like that Betton and
Speaker 1: Dexter better. Yeah. Um, maybe Jacqueline Roy, Um, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe you take a guy like Carl Brooks, who's more
Speaker 1: of an end. Yeah. Right, but the rest of the
Speaker 1: if you don't do it, now, Zach Pickens is there.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't love these guys, um, you know,
Speaker 1: as much as I love a couple of those next round,
Speaker 1: right right, I'll think Pickens next round. The only two
Speaker 1: I would consider here are Betton and Dexter. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: with you. Even got to me is a little too
Speaker 1: one dimensional. Yeah, he's he's gonna be, he's gonna be,
Speaker 1: He's gonna play fifteen snaps a game. Yeah, so it
Speaker 1: sounds like these are our options. Um, two centers that
Speaker 1: were both like one of the tight ends, Washington or Musgrave. Yeah,
Speaker 1: for Freeland, which is also a pretty shallow crop at
Speaker 1: this point, right, Benton or Dexter, Well, let's leave, here's
Speaker 1: the Here are the tight ends still available. I bet
Speaker 1: there's a lot Washington, Musgrave, Tucker Craft, Sam Laporta, look, Schoonmaker, Payne, Durham.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's such a good crew. Davis, Allen's there.
Speaker 1: I mean there's guys. Old Zach Quinz is there. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's there's guys. This is ridiculously deep. Two thirds of
Speaker 1: those will be their next round. Yeah, I just thin
Speaker 1: what Washington would be in this offense. I hear you
Speaker 1: hear mismatches. Yeah, but I don't know if the old
Speaker 1: Dominion kid can't be that. Maybe not right away, sure sure,
Speaker 1: but you know, next year. I think that's possible as well.
Speaker 1: I mean, because he's he's six seven and two hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty five, two hundred and sixty pounds. So do
Speaker 1: you take Benton? I think you take Benton. H I
Speaker 1: don't want to get shut out at d tackle. But
Speaker 1: that would also mean then we went defense defense defense,
Speaker 1: I know, I know, but they're not young there. I
Speaker 1: hear you all right, let's take Betton, see how it goes.
Speaker 1: And we're cruising down here into the next round. It's
Speaker 1: actually interesting since we can't make any trades. Yeah, we're
Speaker 1: kind of you know, these these are what we have
Speaker 1: to pick. Round three is running here. We're getting down
Speaker 1: to okay, watching the guys tick off the board here,
Speaker 1: all right, so we're back up at eighty top guys available.
Speaker 1: Tucker Craft to a point about the problem of that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Georgian battle light end, Jordan battle the safety out of Alabama,
Speaker 1: Sydney Brown the safety out of Illinois, Jamie Robinson, the
Speaker 1: safety out of Florida State, Zach Evans running back from
Speaker 1: Michigan to Marvin Overshan the linebacker out of Texas, and
Speaker 1: Owen Papo the linebacker out of Auburn. Sam Laporta is there,
Speaker 1: Tyja Spears, Jared Patterson at a Notre Dame. He tours
Speaker 1: ACL Did he't know there was at the USC kid
Speaker 1: USC worees did? Yeah? Then he benched afterwards? Yeah, right,
Speaker 1: talk about Chase Brown is there? Joe Tipman is there,
Speaker 1: Darius Rush, cornerback out of South Carolina, Jakorey and Bennett
Speaker 1: the other cornerback out of Maryland. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: duos this year that Yeah, there are Vous Hodges, Tomlinson.
Speaker 1: Oh so I have a couple of names written down. Okay,
Speaker 1: in the real world, if you told me Rush was
Speaker 1: going to be there in the third round, I'd be
Speaker 1: very happy. I like him a lot. But we used
Speaker 1: the first round pick on an outside corner out. Um,
Speaker 1: there were several safeties, you know, brown Florida State kid.
Speaker 1: They wouldn't be my vote, but I'd have no problem
Speaker 1: telling me right now that they took one of those
Speaker 1: safeties in the third round. I don't know if you
Speaker 1: could go defense again, but Tomlinson's kind of attractive as
Speaker 1: a pure slot burner, something you don't have currently. But
Speaker 1: I think it comes on to craft or Tipman. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I'm with you there. For people, by the
Speaker 1: way that don't know Thomlinson Hodges Thomlinson is Ladanian Tomlinson's kid. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we know how Mike Tomlin likes loves bloodlines. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: could be a steeler. I'm just saying, right, you know
Speaker 1: a guy who's the son of Ladanian Tomlinson could be
Speaker 1: a steeler. He's an undersized pure nickel that is very fast,
Speaker 1: very aggressive, looks like he's grown up around the game
Speaker 1: with a famous father, you know, yeah, right right, So
Speaker 1: wouldn't surprise me to hear his name's point, you know,
Speaker 1: if again, if we hadn't taken a cornerback in the
Speaker 1: first round, right, some of these corners, like some of
Speaker 1: these cornerbacks that are still available are still very attractive.
Speaker 1: The Illinois slot slash safety Rush Thomas. And I mean,
Speaker 1: there's it's a good group. It really is, it really is. Um.
Speaker 1: Do you have a preference tight end tight end over there? Tipman?
Speaker 1: I prefer craft, But I know you liked Hipman a lot.
Speaker 1: I don't disliked Hipman. He would help somewhere. I just
Speaker 1: want to get a weapon from my young quarterback. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I hear you. Hm, I'm shocked Hipman's still there though,
Speaker 1: I am just amazed. Yeah, I think I think that's
Speaker 1: such a value. Yeah, I mean there will be a
Speaker 1: tight end in the fourth round, Shoonmaker or somebody like that,
Speaker 1: or yeah, resigned gentry and at work. You're not going
Speaker 1: to get a potential starting You might get a potential
Speaker 1: starting center in the fourth round. You don't get a
Speaker 1: top guy. If Tipman might end up being a Pro
Speaker 1: Bowl center. I don't know a problem with it. Let's
Speaker 1: take Tipman. Yeah, I would have taken him a round ago. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know he was, he was on our list. Then okay,
Speaker 1: onto the next round. We were cruising through this with
Speaker 1: Matt Yeah yeah, well no trades and you know, yeah
Speaker 1: right uh okay, So we're just about up here again
Speaker 1: and we are up okay, so we're up at one twenty.
Speaker 1: The guys available Sean Tucker, the running back out of Syracuse,
Speaker 1: Kenny Markeett McIntosh, the running back out of Georgia, Tank Bigsby,
Speaker 1: the running back out of Auburn, DeAndre millerandre running back
Speaker 1: out of or Kendrey Miller, I should say, the running
Speaker 1: back out of TCU. Now it's also a very deep
Speaker 1: running back draft. It is resolutely this is the neighborhood.
Speaker 1: You will be happy to get any of those guys
Speaker 1: if you're running back. Needy eli Ricks, the cornerback out
Speaker 1: of Alabama, Rashawn Johnson, the number two back out of Texas.
Speaker 1: I like him, Luke Schoonmaker tight end, and in in Michigan,
Speaker 1: Garrett Williams, the cornerback out of Syracuse who we took
Speaker 1: much earlier. We took I think in their third round
Speaker 1: pick earlier at eighty. Yeah. Maybe maybe we traded back
Speaker 1: a little bit and took him two. We took him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think he's a great flyer in this draft. You
Speaker 1: could just take him and you know, oh yeah, take
Speaker 1: the chance. Charlie Jones, the wide receiver out of Purdue,
Speaker 1: Eric Gray the running back out of Oklahoma, Colby Wooden
Speaker 1: the edge rusher out of Auburn, Michael Wilson out of Stanford,
Speaker 1: Jonathan Mingo out of Old Miss j Jaden Read the
Speaker 1: wide receiver out of Michigan State. Trey Palmer the wide
Speaker 1: receiver out of Nebraska. There's some interesting running backs there.
Speaker 1: Um like some of those receivers, I'd say running back. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I met receivers, but yeah, there's also interest running backs.
Speaker 1: But we're not really in that market. But a lot
Speaker 1: of running backs. So here's what I got written down
Speaker 1: is those last four receivers you mentioned, Wilson, Mingo, Read,
Speaker 1: Palmer would be helpful. I like them. Schoonmaker kind of
Speaker 1: stands alone is the tight end. But the best player
Speaker 1: on the board is the Syracuse corner. Yeah, but we
Speaker 1: took a corner back in the first round. I think
Speaker 1: I'd go Schoonmaker. Yeah, I think so too. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: we get our tight end. Yeah. It's a beauty of
Speaker 1: this draft. It's just the way it's you know, like
Speaker 1: I very much believe he would be a round three
Speaker 1: player every year in most years. Yeah, yeah, there's too
Speaker 1: many on this year. Yes, might even sneak into the
Speaker 1: end of round two in most drafts, most drafts, right, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: all right. Now we get a little bit of a
Speaker 1: weight here because we don't have picks, which again is
Speaker 1: why we've talked talked about the potential for a trade down.
Speaker 1: We've made four picks and we have two seventh rounders remaining. Right,
Speaker 1: we've made five picks, so at this point we've got Gonzalet,
Speaker 1: Christi Nzala, s True Sanders, Kanu, Benton, Joe Tipman, Luke Schoonmaker. Okay,
Speaker 1: what do you mean I on receiver, running back, quarterback?
Speaker 1: Um open to any of it. Really again, it's just
Speaker 1: a tackle. We got shut out on tackles, I think. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so now you're you're calling back one of the guys
Speaker 1: that you know, Yeah, you find it kind of redread Yeah, Okay,
Speaker 1: we are back up. Oh Man, Zach Kuntz is still there. Uh,
Speaker 1: we're back up here. At was his two thirty four?
Speaker 1: I guess it is. And the people available. Kobe Turner,
Speaker 1: the defensive lineman at a wake Forest, Jake Andrews, a
Speaker 1: center at a Troy zat Kuntz the tight end of
Speaker 1: Old Dominion edge rusher Ocon Mathis at of Nebraska, Kayla Murphy,
Speaker 1: edge rusher out of Farris State. Anthony Johnston cornerback out
Speaker 1: of Iowa State, Elijah Higgins, wide receiver from Stanford, Corey Trice,
Speaker 1: cornerback at the Purdue, Jason Taylor's safety out of Oklahoma State,
Speaker 1: Trey Tucker, the wide receiver from Cincinnati. Calleth hallisay cornerback
Speaker 1: out of Western Kentucky. Tyson Badgeant the quarterback from Sheppard
Speaker 1: trump Read the offensive tackle from Louisville, is there? YEA Zerogola,
Speaker 1: the edge rusher, linebacker out of Louisville is there. Edge
Speaker 1: wouldn't be terrible, wouldn't be I wouldn't be awful. Dorian
Speaker 1: Thompson Robinson, the quarterback out of UCLA's there, as Seem
Speaker 1: Richards from North Carolina is there? I think that's a
Speaker 1: no brainer. Yeah. Now they have him listed as a guard.
Speaker 1: That's fine. He's played tackle. Yeah, he played tackles and
Speaker 1: senior boys attack. He's only six fours. That's fine. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's great again seventh round guy. Yeah, it turns into
Speaker 1: Calvin Beecham, that's fine, turns into my swing guy. That's fine.
Speaker 1: It maybe it may you know, if if, if everything,
Speaker 1: if this happens this way and he gets shut out,
Speaker 1: we just could I mean Matt Filers sitting out there. Oh,
Speaker 1: I mean some of those guys, somebody of that, you know,
Speaker 1: somebody in that nature. You know, I can find somebody
Speaker 1: to be my my swing tackle. M No, you can,
Speaker 1: and some guys might still become available. Yeah. No, I
Speaker 1: just like Richards here a lot um which leads us
Speaker 1: to the next pick. Is there was two or three
Speaker 1: quarterbacks I thought were interesting too. Yeah, they're still there.
Speaker 1: I think that's a good You're about to grab him. Well,
Speaker 1: let's see what's Robinson. Let's see what's here? H badge
Speaker 1: In is there? Robinson Thompson Robinson is there? Uh? Those
Speaker 1: are the two that stood out. The man the East
Speaker 1: Carolina quarterback is their Holton Ayler's stetson. Bennett is there? Um?
Speaker 1: You got Malie Cunningham from Louisville. The Fordham quarterback is
Speaker 1: I'd probably go, uh, did you go badging or tight? Uh?
Speaker 1: Thompson Robins. I don't have a preference. I like both
Speaker 1: at this state. Probably like Dorian Thompson Robinson a little
Speaker 1: bit better. Okay, I mean I know they've badging through
Speaker 1: for gajillion yards and seventeen thousand total yards at at
Speaker 1: D two level, right right? Is prospect? Yeah, but they
Speaker 1: both are. Yeah, all right, let's take Thompson Robinson and
Speaker 1: that will finish off our draft. So we ended up
Speaker 1: with Christian Zalis in the first round. Drew is nominal
Speaker 1: and probably unlike unlikely. Yeah, but if we didn't there
Speaker 1: was five times oh four cornerbacks at thirty two. There
Speaker 1: were cornerbacks at forty nine. There were cornerbacks at eighty. Yeah,
Speaker 1: absolutely they were Probably we didn't even look really hard
Speaker 1: at it at one twenty, but there was probably somebody
Speaker 1: there that we've been happy with. One. We took Drew
Speaker 1: Sanders at thirty two, round one. You'll be okay, yeah, right,
Speaker 1: Sanders at thirty two. I didn't love what was sitting
Speaker 1: there at thirty two. Yeah, yeah. Kean who bent at
Speaker 1: forty nine, Joe Tipman in round three at pick eighty,
Speaker 1: that's a steel. At one twenty we got Luke Schoonmaker. Yeah.
Speaker 1: At two thirty four we got to Seem Richards, the
Speaker 1: offensive linemen out of North Carolina. And then at two
Speaker 1: forty one we took Dorian Thompson Robinson, the quarterback at UCLA.
Speaker 1: We've had this conversation many times, but a seventh round quarterback,
Speaker 1: the way that their picks it up absolutely makes sense.
Speaker 1: I mean, Trubisky is a free agent a year from now, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you want to You're gonna have four quarterbacks in camp
Speaker 1: next year. You're gonna have four quarterbacks in camp this year, right,
Speaker 1: you still need to get another one after drafting this guy, right,
Speaker 1: So you draft him and you're still gonna sign an
Speaker 1: undrafted guy somebody right to be your fourth arm. So
Speaker 1: that's just the way almost. I mean, you're not are
Speaker 1: you gonna bring two undrafted guys into camp and hope
Speaker 1: one of them hits? Yeah? Probably not. Yeah, find a
Speaker 1: veteran or maybe you might. You might bring one in.
Speaker 1: He you might like him better than Thompson route. Maybe
Speaker 1: Badge is still there and you sign him too, absolutely fluid,
Speaker 1: So they need to add there will be a rookie
Speaker 1: quarterback in camp for sure, if Mad too, if not too, yeah,
Speaker 1: now I'm with you. Or maybe you bring in Josh
Speaker 1: Dobbs or you know whatever. No, there there'll be quarterbacks available.
Speaker 1: But yeah you got you find two more than what
Speaker 1: you got. Yeah, I mean you have to add to
Speaker 1: that or that's why the people wanting to cut uh,
Speaker 1: you know Tis Trubisky. First of all, have you seen
Speaker 1: what the backup quarterback market has been like this year?
Speaker 1: Those guys are all signing for eight million dollars? Yeah,
Speaker 1: which is what he's actually making this year. You know,
Speaker 1: people look at the cap number. That's what he's making. Now,
Speaker 1: he's making eight which is what that's the going rate
Speaker 1: for a backup quarterback. Yeah, yeah, no, I mean that's
Speaker 1: that's which Again it leads us back to that's why
Speaker 1: you draft one this year so you don't have to
Speaker 1: pay a guy eight million dollars next year potentially last year.
Speaker 1: Are going to lose their mind if there's a seven
Speaker 1: three quarterback what a ways, Well it isn't. I mean,
Speaker 1: they might be your TOMP number two for the next
Speaker 1: five years. Right, Yeah, So it's good cheap labor, and
Speaker 1: you should probably do that. You know, at this point,
Speaker 1: every few years draft another one, Yes, just to keep
Speaker 1: recite because one turns into a backup. Yeah, because the
Speaker 1: Steelers believe in they're a three quarterback team. They believe
Speaker 1: in it. That's what they you know, philosophically they believe in.
Speaker 1: So at some point you're gonna have to pay pick it,
Speaker 1: you know, assuming he's your guy, right, We always want
Speaker 1: to have that cupboard filled with a young guy. So
Speaker 1: just keep you know, keep using draft picks on No.
Speaker 1: I think they will espect if they trade down. That
Speaker 1: could be a fifth, sixth, seventh round guy, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, doesn't have to be one of the last
Speaker 1: two picks. Absolutely, absolutely, But that's gonna do it for
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