Originally Posted by
teegre
Thank you, Bruce Arians, for AB.
At the same time, Bruce deserves to be chastised for leaking the following first round picks to Ed Bouchette the: Darrelle Revis, Branden Albert, and JJ Watt. In each case, Arians told Bouchette that the Steelers had interest in those players, and in turn, those players went from "late R1 picks" to "Hey, the Steelers are looking at this guy, maybe we should draft him!!!"
Timmons wasn't that bad of a consolation prize... but, it still hurt.
I'd argue that Heyward is the second best 3-4 DE behind Watt (so, that's really not that much of a loss).
But, Albert would have been such a better pick than Spinny.