Welcome to the terrible take, a mini podcast telling Steelers Nation what's on our mind.

I'm Joe Clark.

It was somewhat interesting to me that the Pittsburgh Steelers first pre-draft visitor was an offensive tackle,

with Miami's Markele Bell coming in for a visit on Friday.

Offensive tackle moved up suddenly on the team's list of needs, with the report that

Broder Jones had fusion surgery following a neck injury that ended his season in week 12.

GM Omar Khan expressed some doubt that Jones would be ready for training camp, where it's

expected to compete with Dylan Cook for the starting left tackle job.

Cook did great when he took over at left tackle midway through week 14 until the end of the

year, but it was still a small sample size and the Steelers may want to bring in competition

for him. As far as Bell goes, he likely wouldn't be in the mix of start right away if the

Steelers did draft him, as he is more of a developmental prospect. But the Steelers also released Calvin Anderson, and there's a real path where the team

signs a starting caliber offensive tackle to compete with Cook and drafts a developmental

prospect on day two or early on day three to serve as maybe a fourth tackle sort of role.

Well, to me, offensive tackle seemed more like a late day three pick a a pick where you kind of

throw a dart on a guy with how many picks the Steelers have in this draft that sort of selection

but now it seems to be a legitimate option early in the draft i'm curious to see how the Steelers

go about addressing a position free agency is that will also say how much faith they have in

Dylan Cook but it also will help set

the draft board.

And right now, I fully believe that the Steelers will be drafting an offensive tackle before

the fifth round come April.

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