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Scout’s Eye with Matt Williamson: Should you even draft a quarterback?

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4.6832 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2026

⏱️ 13 minutes

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0:00.0

Well, hello, everyone.

0:07.1

I'm Matt Williamson.

0:08.1

How's it going?

0:09.2

Can't complain here.

0:12.5

Last night, I'm recording this Thursday, so it's Wednesday night.

0:16.4

I finalized my top five quarterback ranks for the draft and wrote like a paragraph, or several

0:24.3

paragraphs, for Steelers.com on just the class as a whole. And I think that'd be a good conversation

0:30.6

for us. I mean, like, we all know Mendoza's one, and we know Mendoza's not going to go to the

0:35.6

Steelers, but I will give you my thumbnail on him

0:37.7

and others. I am interested from you guys, because I have mixed feelings, is, I'll just get this

0:48.3

out of the way. They're not going to get Mendoza. There's no one I would take at 21.

0:59.7

And frankly, I don't think there's anyone that'll be there that I would take in the second round.

1:03.8

The first two picks to me need to be O-line and wide receiver in some order.

1:11.6

So then it becomes should the Steelers draft another developmental quarterback?

1:14.9

And as you'll see and I'll get into the names if you don't know them already,

1:16.9

there are a couple I like,

1:19.6

and you could always hit lightning in a bottle.

1:24.5

And I think you guys know me well enough that I mostly subscribe to the theory that you should draft a quarterback every year, even if you have

1:29.1

Mahomes, you know, that Rogers and Farah, they drafted on almost every year in Green

1:35.2

Bay and ended up with guys like Aaron Brooks and Brunel and Hasselbeck. I mean,

1:42.9

end up with really good late-round quarterbacks,

1:45.1

but you got to take a lot of bites in the apple to get there,

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