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

DK’s Double Shot of Steelers: Best player, right?

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

🗓️ 9 April 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Today's episode: Could this be one of those NFL Drafts where the Steelers just prioritize getting the right guy? Hear award-winning columnist Dejan Kovacevic's three Daily Shot podcasts -- one each on Steelers, Penguins, Pirates -- every weekday morning, plus the all-new DOUBLE SHOT show that follows up at 4:00 p.m. Eastern!

Transcript

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0:00.0

There's a long-standing perception, and some of it's earned that the Steelers are good at drafting.

0:18.3

And it might be one of those things if you say it often enough, people believe it.

0:23.0

They've had that reputation.

0:24.9

Everything has to come from the inside.

0:27.2

Everything has to, you know, move up the ladder.

0:30.7

We prefer to have our own guys,

0:33.4

our own types of guys who are true Pittsburgh Steelers.

0:37.7

Okay, great.

0:39.8

Problem is it isn't accurate and it hasn't been accurate for a while.

0:46.9

If you look at the Steelers' recent history in the draft,

0:52.3

and by that, I don't mean, you know, going through all seven rounds here.

0:55.8

I'm typing it up on the screen here.

0:58.1

If you're going through just the higher picks,

1:01.7

you're going to find that this team has not done particularly well,

1:06.4

including notably with its top picks.

1:11.6

I'm going to go through, this is going to disturb you, I warn you, by the way.

1:14.8

This is to hide the women and children figuratively speaking.

1:19.2

Because since T.J. Watt in 2017, since T.J.

1:25.9

That was a 30th overall pick, which was beyond brilliant.

1:29.7

I don't care what anybody says about, you know, how he fell to them or they got lucky.

1:35.8

Uh-uh.

1:36.4

No.

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