{"id":1475,"date":"2014-05-09T19:10:32","date_gmt":"2014-05-09T19:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/?p=1475"},"modified":"2014-05-09T19:12:49","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T19:12:49","slug":"with-the-first-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/?p=1475","title":{"rendered":"With the first pick&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Steelers stunned everyone with their first pick Thursday night at the draft. Despite glaring needs at Defensive Back and Defensive Line the Steelers chose who they considered the best on the board,\u00a0Ohio State&#8217;s Ryan Shazier. Pos: ILB * Ht: 6-1 * Wt: 237. He will\u00a0most likely play\u00a0inside linebacker with Steelers. He has outstanding\u00a0speed (4.35 in the 40) and\u00a0 his playmaking abilities are the biggest reasons the Steelers drafted him.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/sports\/steelers\/2014\/05\/09\/DAY-1-STEELERS-2014-DRAFT-CLASS-RD-1-PICK-15\/stories\/201405090138\">http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/sports\/steelers\/2014\/05\/09\/DAY-1-STEELERS-2014-DRAFT-CLASS-RD-1-PICK-15\/stories\/201405090138<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Steelers stunned everyone with their first pick Thursday night at the draft. Despite glaring needs at Defensive Back and Defensive Line the Steelers chose who they considered the best on the board,\u00a0Ohio State&#8217;s Ryan Shazier. Pos: ILB * Ht: 6-1 * Wt: 237. He will\u00a0most likely play\u00a0inside linebacker with Steelers. He has outstanding\u00a0speed (4.35 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bwg-gr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1475"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1478,"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475\/revisions\/1478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}