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DK’s Double Shot of Steelers: Some draft grades

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

DK Pittsburgh Sports

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

4.6832 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Today's episode: Let’s start with the hard analysis of the Steelers’ 2025 class. 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!

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0:00.0

Hey, guys.

0:10.5

Welcome to an unusual episode of Double Shot of Steelers, because we're going to talk about draft grades.

0:17.1

And those of you who are a long time listeners, viewers, readers, what have you, will

0:23.8

know that I am no fan of these things. However, one of the things about our company is that we

0:30.0

openly disagree on stuff, as you can see here. So when Chris Halleck says, I'm going to do some

0:36.2

grades on the Steelers draft, I don't say,

0:39.2

no, Chris, you can't do trades. I don't, grades. I don't believe in them. He just goes ahead and does

0:45.3

them. And we actually have them at the top of our site right now. And it's a really, really fun,

0:51.0

interesting, good read that breaks down each one of the picks and explains why they're

0:58.2

either good or bad or somewhere in between relative to expectations.

1:05.4

And that's the thing I want to bring up with you today before Chris comes on.

1:12.8

Expectations for individual drafts, expectations for collective drafts, are set,

1:20.0

the most part, externally, meaning by those of us who are, you know, just very interested parties.

1:27.2

We're curious to see how the, how the Steelers do.

1:30.0

We're curious to see what kind of players they get.

1:32.1

And yes, we are curious to see how their picks rate against where people from the outside, like us, thought they would be picked.

1:43.7

One issue with that. I know for a fact, Chris will agree with this when he comes on.

1:49.2

They have all of the information.

1:53.9

Not some of it, not a big percentage of it.

1:57.1

They have all of it.

1:59.1

They have done their homework up, down, and sideways. Now, does that

2:02.8

mean that they nail it? No. Does that mean everybody makes a perfect pick? And they all go on to

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