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DK Pittsburgh Sports: Daily podcasts on Steelers, Penguins, Pirates!

DK’s Daily Shot of Steelers: Grade this draft a D-plus … for the D-line

DK Pittsburgh Sports: Daily podcasts on Steelers, Penguins, Pirates!

DK Pittsburgh Sports

Hockey, Steelers, Penguins, Football, Nfl, Matt Williamson, Nhl, Pittsburgh, Mlb, Baseball, Dejan Kovacevic, Dk Pittsburgh Sports, Pittsburgh Penguin, Pittsburgh Pirates, Pittsburgh Steelers, Sports, Pirates

4.6832 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Go ahead and grade this draft a D-plus … for the addition to the defensive line. Hear award-winning columnist Dejan Kovacevic's Daily Shots of Steelers, Penguins and Pirates -- three separate podcasts -- every weekday morning on the DK Pittsburgh Sports podcasting network, available on all platforms: https://linktr.ee/dkpghsports Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This holiday season, Amazon brings you an unmissable month of festive football.

0:07.0

What a fantastic night of football.

0:10.0

Including 10 Premier League games.

0:13.0

It doesn't get much better than that.

0:17.0

And Tuesday's UEFA Champions League must watch match.

0:22.3

The biggest live games from the biggest leagues all wrapped up.

0:28.2

It's on Prime.

0:33.6

No, they didn't get mean Joe Green. No, they might not even have gotten Brett Kiesel.

0:43.7

But they did make a move to begin replenishing what's always been in a way the franchise's main positional room. Good morning to you. Good Monday morning.

0:56.5

I'm Dan Kovachovich of D.K. Pittsburgh Sports. This is Daily Shot of Steelers. Comes your way bright and early

1:01.4

every weekday. If you're into baseball and or hockey, I also offer daily shots of pirates and penguins

1:07.8

that I hope you'll check out as well.

1:16.8

De Melvin Laal was the Steelers' third round pick in the draft over the weekend,

1:22.7

out of Texas A&M, and he was sandwiched between two wide receivers who seemed to have stolen,

1:27.6

I guess you could call it a secondary spotlight, meaning whatever it was that Kenny Pickett didn't already take up for himself.

1:30.4

And I'm not so sure that should be the case because Laal's edition might have been the one that

1:38.6

was the most needed from the standpoint of reinvigorating a specific group on the team.

1:47.6

Yes, quarterback, priority number one, been over it, and now they've done that, multiple times over.

1:56.0

Wide receiver, greatest need on the 2022 roster addressed that twice over.

2:04.5

But right up in that same class, and those of you have been listening to this show for a few weeks now,

2:10.2

will know that I've been pushing this almost as hard as quarterback and wide receiver,

2:15.8

was that this defensive line needed to begin dragging its

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