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stillers4me
02-24-2011, 10:13 PM
Speaking for the first time since the Steelers lost Super Bowl XLV, Kevin Colbert had a Q&A session with reporters at the NFL Scouting Combine and met later with a small group of Pittsburgh scribes.


The director of football operations did not talk about the impending lockout -– and how it will impact the Steelers -– because of a gag order but Colbert touched on a number of other subjects. Here are selected excerpts from his media chats.

Q: Is the franchise tag you used on LaMarr Woodley just one step toward locking him up with a long-term contract?
A: “Both he and his agent are aware that at some point we want to do a long-term deal with him. The rest of the (potential free agents)…you know how we operate. We’re going to step back and ‘OK, we know we’ve got this with LaMarr.’ Now what could potentially happen, we don’t know yet.”

Q: Is there enough money to take care of Lawrence Timmons assuming you get LaMarr locked up to a long-term deal?.......

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zulater
02-27-2011, 05:51 PM
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11058/1128137-66.stm

Drafting 31st not a concern

The Steelers select 31st in the NFL draft, but there's no reason to believe that will be a detriment to them selecting a good or even great player on the first round.

Kevin Colbert came to the Steelers in 2000 and has never missed with the first pick.

Starting in 2000, they include Plaxico Burress, Casey Hampton, Kendall Simmons, Troy Polamalu, Ben Roethlisberger, Heath Miller, Santonio Holmes, Lawrence Timmons, Rashard Mendenhall, Ziggy Hood and Maurkice Pouncey. All except Holmes spent his entire career with the team or stayed through his rookie contract of five years. All became at least good starters, if you include Hood. Five made Pro Bowls and a sixth was a Super Bowl MVP. All but three remain with the team and, of those, Holmes was traded and Simmons was at the end of the line with injuries and diabetes.

It is rare for a team to hit on 11 consecutive first-rounders, especially when they are drafting late. But they nabbed Simmons and Miller with the 30th pick, Hood with the 32nd, Mendenhall at No. 23 and Pouncey and Hampton at No. 19. They were picking No. 27 in 2003 when they made a trade to move to No. 16, where they grabbed Polamalu. They were drafting 32nd in 2006 when they traded up to 25 and took Holmes.Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11058/1128137-66.stm#ixzz1FCr8hUYQ