Pittsburgh Steelers: Most underrated/overrated players of all-time

[polamalubeast]

Underrated:Franco Harris
Overrated:Troy Polamalu


http://www.nfl.com/videos/pittsburgh-steelers/0ap2000000210332/Pittsburgh-Steelers-Most-underrated-overrated-players-of-all-time

[TheRuneMeister]

Franco underrated? I think he gets plenty of credit. Troy is certainly not overrated. Well, maybe when people talk about him like he is friggin Superman, but he is certainly an outstanding player when healthy.

Underrated, current: Ryan Clark. I know he gets credit, but not enough. I think most fans will go with Clark in this category though he is slowly getting more respect.

Underrated, past: Terry Bradshaw. He is (for some odd reason) often forgotten when talking Steelers greats. In my opinion, he threw the best deep ball the league has ever seen. I know that he had a falling out with the fanbase, but he was great. I can't stand watching him on TV these days, but that does not change history.

Overrated, current: Sanders (he might be potential great, but is in my opinion yet to truely prove himself)

Overrated, past: Eric Green. I love big ends, and thus Green, but he didn't play like the Pro Bowler he was. I must admit that my knowledge is limited since I couldn't watch the games on tv here in Denmark at the time, but from what I have watched I'll stick with him.

[Seven]

Underrated: Verron Haynes... only half joking.

[cold-hard-steel]

under rated Roy Gerela and Gary Anderson . Maybe not LA Machine so much .

[Pristas]

Underrated: Ben, Timmons, Ike
Overrated: Wallace and Mendy, good riddance

[st33lersguy]

underrated: Aaron Smith

[Dwinsgames]

underrated: Aaron Smith


hard to argue that .....

[zulater]

Underrated: Jon Kolb. He was the left tackle on four Super Bowl winners. He routinely and without fanfare shut down the best pass rushers of his era. Yet he never got any year end honors or has he ever been considered on the Hall of Fame ballot, despite the fact that he made Hall of famers like Carl Eller and Jack Youngblood virtually invisible.

Andy Russell: People just forget how good he was, and how he helped set the tone during the formative years of the Steel Curtain.

Overrated: Kordell Stewart. Wasted 3 solid Super Bowl contenders on him. (96-97-01) At the time some wanted to give him credit for the wins when the truth was he was what was holding the team back. :frusty:

[GBMelBlount]

Overrated: Kordell Stewart. Wasted 3 solid Super Bowl contenders on him. (96-97-01) At the time some wanted to give him credit for the wins when the truth was he was what was holding the team back. :frusty:



I wonder if he ever got that boil removed.




http://youtu.be/xEt5dEOcW0I

[Mistah Q]

Underrated: Joe Gilliam. The 70s would have been much different without him.
Honorable mention: Aaron Smith, Johnny Unitas, Mike Tomczak
I was going to give honorable mention to Neil O'Donnell -- I know we all hate him for Super Bowl XXX but damn was the man a good and accurate passer... in XXX, had Mills not gone down and Hastings not run the wrong route TWICE, that's a completion, O'Donnell would have been a superstar. So he is very underrated... but then again it's hard to say that considering he left for a monster contract with the Jets... but then they mishandled him, he went to the Bungles, almost made that team relevant, then became the Titans' backup. Urf...

Overrated: Mark Malone. Nobody ever thought he was great, true... except for the front office when they had a chance to draft Marino...

[whodat1]

Underrated: Rocky Bleier. Franco would have never had his great numbers without rocky's blocking.

[Dwinsgames]

another couple of under rated players outside of the Steeler fan base IMO is Donnie Shell and LC Greenwood BOTH are deserving of the HOF IMO and neither have got the nod

[NJarhead]

Overrated: Kordell Stewart. Wasted 3 solid Super Bowl contenders on him. (96-97-01) At the time some wanted to give him credit for the wins when the truth was he was what was holding the team back. :frusty: Zu, 1996 was Mike Tomczak's team. I'd say all the other years he was at QB (98, 99 2000) were wastes. Yea he threw the pick the AFCCG in 97/98 that mattered, the one in 2001/02 didn't as much. We lost that game on Special Teams. Kordell actually played pretty good each of those two years tho. Disclaimer: I'm not debating his place on the overrated list. The man was the antithesis of consistency.