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03-07-2011, 07:58 PM
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Because I can’t help myself, a little Draft Day Time Machine: Cornerbacks Edition. In case you missed it, I did a comprehensive review of the offensive line last fall (http://www.steelerslounge.com/2010/09/time-machines-steelers-oline/). Usual rules apply here (basically: only players available after the Steelers’ original selection are up for consideration), but this time we’re looking at which cornerbacks* the Steelers might have had with their previous first-round selections. Because the last time Pittsburgh drafted a CB in Round 1 it was 1997 (http://www.steelerslounge.com/2011/03/14-years-steelers-cornerbacks-draft/). And his name was Chad Scott.
(* I could have included safeties, but with Polamalu and Chris Hope, and later Ryan Clark and, ahem, Anthony Smith, this position hasn’t been at the top of the personnel to-do list for some time.)
Let’s get to it…
1998: Took Alan Faneca, 1.26. Could have had R.W. McQuarters (1.28).
Faneca wins.
1999: Took Troy Edwards, 1.13. Could have had Antoine Winfield (1.23), Fernando Bryant (1.27), Dre’ Bly (2.41).
Just about anybody would have been better than Edwards. Except for the guy the Steelers took at 2.57: Scott Shields. Moving on….......
read more @
http://www.steelerslounge.com/2011/03/cornerbacks-time-machines-draft/
Because I can’t help myself, a little Draft Day Time Machine: Cornerbacks Edition. In case you missed it, I did a comprehensive review of the offensive line last fall (http://www.steelerslounge.com/2010/09/time-machines-steelers-oline/). Usual rules apply here (basically: only players available after the Steelers’ original selection are up for consideration), but this time we’re looking at which cornerbacks* the Steelers might have had with their previous first-round selections. Because the last time Pittsburgh drafted a CB in Round 1 it was 1997 (http://www.steelerslounge.com/2011/03/14-years-steelers-cornerbacks-draft/). And his name was Chad Scott.
(* I could have included safeties, but with Polamalu and Chris Hope, and later Ryan Clark and, ahem, Anthony Smith, this position hasn’t been at the top of the personnel to-do list for some time.)
Let’s get to it…
1998: Took Alan Faneca, 1.26. Could have had R.W. McQuarters (1.28).
Faneca wins.
1999: Took Troy Edwards, 1.13. Could have had Antoine Winfield (1.23), Fernando Bryant (1.27), Dre’ Bly (2.41).
Just about anybody would have been better than Edwards. Except for the guy the Steelers took at 2.57: Scott Shields. Moving on….......
read more @
http://www.steelerslounge.com/2011/03/cornerbacks-time-machines-draft/