PITTSBURGH -- John Mitchell's been around way too long to throw bouquets at rookies, but maybe the veteran defensive line coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers really, really likes this one.And maybe 6-1 1/2, 309-pound third-round pick Javon Hargrave is a really, really good one."The first thing I'd ...
PITTSBURGH -- Thought to have been hijacked by the Cincinnati Bengals, the Pittsburgh Steelers still came out smiling after drafting Artie Burns, a cornerback out of Miami, in the first round last night.Burns was the first cornerback chosen in the first round by General Manager Kevin Colbert, ...
The beauty of covering the draft process is that all of the players are your players.For a while.But, the draft is at hand, and the 120 players with whom the Pittsburgh Steelers have met will soon be whittled down to seven drafted players.So, it’s goodbye.n Goodbye to Karl Joseph. I had a ...
The image of John Mitchell knocking on the door of Karim Kassam’s office comes with a soundtrack that might go something like this:Kassam: Can I help you?Mitchell: Um, yeah, Coach Tomlin told me to come see you.Kassam: About?Mitchell: Well, I asked him why he took my boys off the board. He ...
In the age of sports analytics, you pay attention when a website called VPG Sports sends over a couple of charts comparing some of the top Pittsburgh Steelers wide receivers over the years to the top wide receivers in this draft.If anyone knows wide receivers, it’s the Steelers, and VPG had ...
Should the Pittsburgh Steelers try to win the draft when it gets underway on April 28? Or should they try to win the Super Bowl?While some of you sharpies out there will say you can win Super Bowls, plural, by winning this draft, and the next one, and so on, the correct answer — particularly ...
