Steelers GM Kevin Colbert doesn't rule out singing an ILB

[DesertSteel]

Its like fining a coffee barista if a customer complains that the coffee they made is too hot.

It's like an old man trying to send back soup at a deli.

[AtlantaDan]

we could talk this to death ( and we are getting close to meeting that objective ) the the bottom line is the Steelers will NOT find Shazier 2.0 ( or anything close ) in the free Agent pool or at waiver wires at cut time ...

1) there is not many LB like Shazier , they do not grow on trees

2) if a team had one they surely wouldn't be cutting him

If you want a guy like him ...you have to draft him and to be honest I am not sure THAT guy was in the last draft , closest thing to it may have been Lenard but even he was not as fast and he was raw so its a projection ..
on top of that even Shazier was not the player we lost when we drafted him ... he grew a lot in terms of being a football player in a few short years

Agreed - apparently Plan B is to redesign the defense rather than seek to plug someone else in to a defensive scheme that was built around Shazier

This stat from Football Outsiders Almanac that Peter King cites in his column this morning further confirms how big a hole the Steelers had to fill once Shazier went down

Before Ryan Shazier‘s injury, the Steelers defense ranked fifth against the pass and eighth against the run. After the Shazier injury, the Steelers were 16th against the pass and dead last against the run.

https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...ing-camp-fmia/

[hawaiiansteeler]

NaVorro Bowman, LB

2017 team: San Francisco 49ers/Oakland Raiders | Age: 30

Bowman showed he could still play during a 10-game stint with the Raiders to close out the season. But the obstacle with veteran linebackers in free agency is often the same: Unless a team envisions him as a starter, he needs to have special-teams value. Is Bowman willing or able to play on special teams if he's not starting?

http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/2...-training-camp