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

DK's Daily Shot of Steelers: That project QB

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

🗓️ 20 March 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Now isn't the time to fear that project-type quarterback. 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

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0:00.0

Mike Tomlin, Omar Khan and Tom Arth, the quarterbacks coach,

0:13.8

but Jalen Milro, dinner, sat with him for a while, talked football, talked life, I'm sure.

0:20.8

And it really doesn't have to mean anything.

0:24.4

They have dinner with lots of these kids. But dot, dot, dot. Morning to you. Good Thursday morning. I'm

0:31.8

Dan Kovach of H.K. Pittsburgh Sports. This is Daily Shot of Steelers. It comes your way bright

0:37.1

and early every weekday. If you're

0:38.3

into hockey and or baseball, I also offer daily shots of Penguins and Pirates in the same place that

0:46.3

you found this. Alabama's Pro Day, always going to draw attention, a gifted quarterback,

0:52.8

lots of natural talent, and a blazing 40-yard dash. He's going to do

0:59.6

likewise. I'm not about to make any sort of predictions as to whether or not the Steelers will take

1:05.6

Milrow in the draft, certainly not about to advocate it and absolutely not to even think about it

1:13.9

when it comes to the first round. But that said, I'm going to bring up a couple of things here

1:20.9

that hopefully reinforces some of the points that I've been making about wanting to have

1:25.5

two, not one, two other positions in that

1:29.8

quarterback room that are committed to younger quarterbacks who are either projects or

1:35.7

closer to being ready or whatever, but who at least have a chance, a chance to become your guy.

1:43.5

I feel as if the first step of this entire quarterback process, which incidentally

1:50.7

should have begun with the drafting of Mason Rudolph in 2018, has to be headlined by

1:58.0

an acceptance that you're not going to get it right by just trying one.

2:04.8

If you do that, that's how you get your Kenny Pickett gambles.

2:09.0

Oh, I mean, if you hit on it, great, awesome, well done.

2:13.1

If you don't, then you're still talking about it years later as we are. I also feel as if there

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