Can Steelers Wait for Omar Cooper Jr. Without Trading Up? | 1st Round Mock Draft 2.0 | Keep the 3-4?
Locked On Steelers – Daily Podcast On The Pittsburgh Steelers
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🗓️ 21 April 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We've got a full first round mock draft. |
| 0:03.9 | How will it go if no team made trades? |
| 0:06.1 | Where would the Steelers be able to pick their best player in this draft class? |
| 0:10.1 | We talk about that and a lot more here on the Locked on Steelers podcast. |
| 0:13.2 | Chris Carter with Alan Saunders today. |
| 0:14.6 | Let's get into it. |
| 0:27.6 | You are Locked on Steel Steelers, your daily Pittsburgh Steelers podcast, part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every day. |
| 0:35.9 | Hello and welcome to the Locked-on Steelers podcast. |
| 0:39.5 | I'm your host, Chris Carter, |
| 0:40.5 | bringing you your daily dose of all things on the Pittsburgh Steelers. |
| 0:43.9 | As always, you can find the show your favorite podcasting on YouTube like this. |
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| 0:50.0 | Friday episodes as well as our bonus content. |
| 0:53.1 | As a step up who, we're joined by the man himself, Alan Sonders from Steelers Now.com. He's been covering the draft. We've been all over the place. We've been going high and low. And today, I'm going to go over my mock draft to put out. In addition to that, we're also going to talk about Patrick Graham, what he said about keeping sort of certain things part of the defense. What will be similar? What could be different? Also, like McCarthy, talking on Monday, did he suggest that the Steelers might actually use all 12 of their picks? Broderick Jones, was there a setback as there was reported nationally? And finally, my mock draft, as I said, we'll talk about. So let's lead with that with my mock draft 2.0. This mock draft, you can read at the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, if you want to get the full explanation of all my picks and how things will play out. So go check that out at post-dash-gazette.com. But with this mock draft, the rules that I had is a full first-round mock draft. I like to do a first- round mock draft where no one makes trades. It's picking |
| 1:45.9 | for where I think this team will go based off of how I've built my board and what I see is their |
| 1:51.2 | team needs. So, and based off of what I've been hearing from all the other mockers. Now, Alan, |
| 1:57.4 | in this situation, it's always tricky because we know trades are going to happen. |
| 2:01.9 | Things split up. |
| 2:03.5 | And that was something that I think that a lot of people knew going in, but now it's going to, |
| 2:09.3 | it's getting to be crunch time and we're seeing more trades happen. |
| 2:12.2 | The Bengals just traded away the 10th overall pick. |
| 2:16.4 | I think that this whole board is going to get shaken up even |
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