Everyone knows the Steelers have been looking to trade for somebody, but who should they trade for?

Why Receivers have been the popular target, but I think they should be looking somewhere else, including Y-receiverce.

We'll talk about that with Nick Farabaw here on the Lockdown Steelers podcast.

I'm your host, Chris Carter.

Let's get into it.

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Nick, you and I have been assessing things.

We're going to get to things that the Steelers need to fix ahead and playing the Green Bay Packers this weekend.

But you've also been writing about the Steelers and what they're looking for in the trades and that there's phone calls being made out there.

And wide receiver has been a primary target for the Steelers. And before we get to other positions, there was a juxtaposition. There was a positions put out there, I believe by Adam Schaefter, uh, that said that the Steelers were looking for a speed wide receiver. And you and I are both like, yeah, what in the, no, no, no. And I I know some people are like, what do you mean? Speed sounds pretty good. But Nick, explain to people why maybe that's not exactly this type of receiver the Steelers should be going for right now. That's the type of, that's what the Steelers have. They have Calvin Austin. They have Roman Wilson. They have Scotty Miller. Even Keishon Williams, a little bit of a different archetype there, but he's still a smaller slot guy. They don't necessarily need a ton of size. It could be a guy with size, but what they need is really an intermediate kind of route runner type to me. And I think that's what they really need, someone to take the pressure of DK in contested catch situations. That's kind of what I look for. And so, you know, there's not necessarily, like, even if you look at the potential trade targets, they look at, is there like a true speed receiver that I think fits in the Austin archetype? I'm not sure there is. You know, there's like Rashid Shaheed, who is someone from New Orleans, he's a route runner type, I think, to me.

He's more in that vein.

You'd look about like Olavé, again, finesse type, got a win in those zones, man-beaters.

I think Jacoby Myers is in that same belt.

But the other thing that, you know, I hope that the Steelers are kind of thinking about here is don't do what they did last year. Don't put a fifth round pick and lay it on fire just to say you made a move because they didn't really have a cohesive plan it felt last year to kind of get Mike Williams integrated in this offense. If you're not going to get someone, you know, that you think can make a difference, like if if you don't think Alan Lazzard can make a difference and that's someone that might be on the market or a Tyler Lockett or Brandon Cooks, those are all older guys that theoretically could be traded. Don't just make the move just to make the move. Don't do it just because you said it because I don't think this. I think Calvin Austin has proven himself to be a nice compliment. I thought we saw at least some promising signs.

I know it was against the Bengals, but Roman Wilson played well on Thursday. So don't make a move just to make a move, but there's a specific archetype they're looking at. And I would hope that they would think that they would get a guy that's a chain mover, route runner, contest a catch guy, someone in those archives,

something that they do not have in this room right now.

Right. They have the this room right now.

Right. They have the guys that can stretch the field. D.K. can stretch the field. Like you, like you said, D.K., Calvin, Roman, and even Scott, he can all run sub-4-40-yard dashes. Like, they have speed. The question is, but if speed was the issue in football, if that was the biggest thing, there'd be a lot of track stars that would be football players. But route running, everything like that, that plays into it, I do think that route running and contested catchability, being able to go up over the middle, being able to haul down, you know, catches when the cornerbacks around you, that's something that can really work to your favor there. And granted, they kind of have the tight ends for that. But that's also why I don't feel like this is the make or break trade that I think people have made it out to be since going back to two years ago when this was all to start. I think that, and again, I think it would help them if they did. But I don't think that it's the make or break trade that if they don't do this, they are, they are going to stink or whatever. I think that they've shown, they can survive. People said, oh, there's no way they can come back late in the fourth quarter with no second wide receiver that's bona fide and set up and then that's exactly what

they did with their tight ends uh but to me i wanted to ask you nick i've had this theory for a minute

now i used to joke around about minkin fitzpatrick for the for the record you can't trade him for

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