Steelers draft position

Steelers22 · Joined: 23 Jan 2007 Posts: 1323

Anybody know what our draft position is looking like as of now?
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BlaqOptic · Joined: 14 Feb 2007 Posts: 25742

I believe we're sitting at around 13th as of right now(no afternoon games). However, we will up at either 17th or 18th I believe after the afternoon games. Depends on Miami.
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JustPlainNasty · Joined: 11 Feb 2008 Posts: 6363 Location: Las Vegas

Looks like were sitting at 15-16 at the moment, pending the St. Louis, Miami & Dallas outcomes. 17 or 18 looks likely.
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SteelFire · Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2012 6:27 pm Post subject:

For what it's worth.....

http://nflfromthesidelines.blogspot.ca/

He says,

"The Giants and Cowboys already have eight with. Miami, St. Louis and New Orleans are sitting with seven wins.

All have better strength of schedules than the Steelers. So there's a chance the Steelers could win and still have the 14th pick at the end of the day."

LTF · Joined: 04 Aug 2010 Posts: 635

Right now the Steelers are picking #15 overall with a win today and New Orleans losing today (thereby jumping Pittsburgh as they finished 7-9).

If Miami loses we'll be drafting at #16.
If St. Louis loses we'll be drafting at #17.

Worst we can finish is #17 overall. Dallas has a significantly higher SOS than us going into tonight's game and won't factor in even at 8-8. It's either going to be 15, 16, or 17 dependent on St. Louis and Miami.

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Ghengis Graz · Joined: 16 Mar 2007 Posts: 1889 Location: Gettysburg

What would we have picked had we lost?
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Ward4HOF · Joined: 11 Apr 2011 Posts: 2586

So we win and rob ourselves of 4-5 spots, at the same time, increasing the Browns draft position by a spot.

I get that we should never root for a divisional rival "sweep", but 5 years from now, how many will remember we won today vs the impact of the player taken at 12/13 vice player taken at 16/17. That's all I'm saying.

Regardless, this year will "hopefully" be an anomoly that we are drafting from a non-playoff position. The cost of moving up for an impact player will be less than most years, so if the opportunity or need presents itself, this is the year Colbert should consider making a move up. We can't always expect a DD-type player drops to us.
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xjayex · Joined: 22 Sep 2008 Posts: 1263

As someone who plays sports competitively, I can honestly say that I've never went into a game and said "well, this one doesn't matter".

Gatoradus · Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2012 11:29 pm Post subject:

honestly, this draft; lower or higher picks wouldn't really make any difference.

I personally rather see Charlie Batch plays, rest some key players for next year BUT in progress, play to win the game. We didn't do that, however we won, no sweep for the Browns.

few picks only makes our pick more certain and locking down on very few prospects compared to where it could have been multiple prospects.

We may miss out on some prospects similar to the year we drafted Timmons (Darrell Revis and Patrick Willis) but this year the draft class is very different, where it's more stretched due to superior depth of defensive talents where back in 2007 there were MORE prospects with elite potentials.

So the outcome may be noticed at first, but wouldn't be that much of difference (I.E. Dion Jordan goes to some team, we draft get Chase Thomas, will the outcome be that much of different at first sighting? no)

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