Welcome to the Locked-on Steelers podcast.

I am your host, Tony Serino, and this is your daily dose of all things, Steelers.

Today on the podcast, I want to talk about the selection of Mason Rudolph, the quarterback

out of Oklahoma State.

The Steelers took him in the third round of this year's draft.

I think in a lot of ways, this draft is going to become the Mason Rudolph draft for the Pittsburgh Steelers.

I think this draft is going to be defined by the selection of Mason Rudolph.

Yes, there are going to be questions about whether Terrell Edmonds was the right pick in the

first round. Yes, there are going to be issues with the fact that the Steelers had four picks

in the first three rounds and chose three

offensive players with those picks. But this draft really didn't go off the rails positionally

until the selection of Rudolph in the third round. Safety was expected in the first round,

even if it wasn't Edmonds that we were expecting to be taken. Certainly safety as a position was something

that was definitely on our minds when the Steelers picked in the first round. Wide receiver in the second

round was very much a need pick after the Steelers traded Martavis-Bryant. They needed someone who could

come in, contribute very early, and James Washington seems to be that kind of player. So really no concerns with positionally taking a safety in round one and a wide receiver

in round two.

Quarterback, though, was always the wild card for this team.

How much interest did they really have in a quarterback?

And so much of the draft preparation as fans was trying to figure out what was real and what

wasn't real about their interest in Mason Rudolph and Lamar Jackson. And as we find out now,

that that interest was certainly real to an extent. While they didn't take him in the first round,

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