The Steelers along with the rest of the NFL will embark on another NFL Draft tomorrow night as teams look to stockpile for the future of their franchises.
For Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin, it’s his 9th draft as head coach of the franchise, and he will yet again along with GM Kevin Colbert and the Rooney’s have a shot to pick a big impact player with the 22nd pick of the draft.
Since he came along for Bill Cowher in 2007, Tomlin has hit on a couple of his first-round picks, and then again has had a few be so-so to say the least.
Today we look at all of those picks, and rank them as we give you our ranking of the eight Steelers First-Round Draft picks under Mike Tomlin.
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Mario
April 29, 2015 at 8:38 pm
Nothing spectacular. Shows Tomlin should let Cowher pick for him this year!
DrGeorge
April 30, 2015 at 8:56 am
Timmons and Heyward are the real deal; DeCastro is solid if not spectacular; Shazier excels when he’s healthy; Pouncey ends up in Ben R’s lap too often to be the best center in the NFL, especially since his knee surgery, but he is serviceable. Hood was for all practical purposes a second round pick and a mistake, and Jarvis Jones and Mendenhall are journeymen talents.
Yet, over all, Tomlin’s picks haven’t been remarkably worse than many other NFL coaches. If Tomlin has a fault, it is not his picks per se, but his tendency to become emotionally invested in his picks and continue to start them when other players are clearly better. Hood, Mendenhall and Pouncey are in this category. Jarvis Jones probably is too; he shows no flashes of brilliance even when healthy; but his frequent injuries make it difficult to assess his true abilities at this level, and he deserves another season to prove himself.