{"id":1480,"date":"2014-05-10T22:35:15","date_gmt":"2014-05-10T22:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/?p=1480"},"modified":"2014-05-12T01:08:24","modified_gmt":"2014-05-12T01:08:24","slug":"puzzling-draft-for-the-steelers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/?p=1480","title":{"rendered":"Puzzling Draft for the Steelers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Steelers had several needs in this years draft&#8230;and didn&#8217;t really focus on any of them.\u00a0 This has to be the most puzzling draft the Steelers have had in 20+ years. Despite several &#8220;need&#8221; picks being available, they grabbed who they felt was the best on the board and who could help immediately.<\/p>\n<p>We will have complete coverage tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the complete Steelers draft board:<\/p>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"col\"><strong>RD<\/strong><\/th>\n<th scope=\"col\"><strong>PK(OVR)<\/strong><\/th>\n<th scope=\"col\"><strong>PLAYER<\/strong><\/th>\n<th scope=\"col\"><strong>POS<\/strong><\/th>\n<th scope=\"col\"><strong>SCHOOL<\/strong><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>15(15)<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/insider.espn.go.com\/nfl\/draft\/player\/_\/id\/34117\/ryan-shazier\">R. Shazier<\/a><\/td>\n<td>OLB<\/td>\n<td>Ohio State<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>14(46)<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/insider.espn.go.com\/nfl\/draft\/player\/_\/id\/33608\/stephon-tuitt\">S. Tuitt<\/a><\/td>\n<td>DE<\/td>\n<td>Notre Dame<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<td>33(97)<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/insider.espn.go.com\/nfl\/draft\/player\/_\/id\/33624\/dri-archer\">D. Archer<\/a><\/td>\n<td>RB<\/td>\n<td>Kent State<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td>18(118)<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/insider.espn.go.com\/nfl\/draft\/player\/_\/id\/34754\/martavis-bryant\">M. Bryant<\/a><\/td>\n<td>WR<\/td>\n<td>Clemson<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<td>17(157)<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/insider.espn.go.com\/nfl\/draft\/player\/_\/id\/34778\/shaquille-richardson\">S. Richardson<\/a><\/td>\n<td>DC<\/td>\n<td>Arizona<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<td>33(173)<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/insider.espn.go.com\/nfl\/draft\/player\/_\/id\/34897\/wesley-johnson\">W. Johnson<\/a><\/td>\n<td>&#8211;<\/td>\n<td>Vanderbilt<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<td>16(192)<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/insider.espn.go.com\/nfl\/draft\/player\/_\/id\/33659\/jordan-zumwalt\">J. Zumwalt<\/a><\/td>\n<td>OLB<\/td>\n<td>UCLA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<td>39(215)<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/insider.espn.go.com\/nfl\/draft\/player\/_\/id\/34110\/dan-mccullers\">D. McCullers<\/a><\/td>\n<td>DT<\/td>\n<td>Tennessee<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>7<\/td>\n<td>15(230)<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/insider.espn.go.com\/nfl\/draft\/player\/_\/id\/33680\/rob-blanchflower\">R. Blanchflower<\/a><\/td>\n<td>TE<\/td>\n<td>Massachusetts<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Steelers had several needs in this years draft&#8230;and didn&#8217;t really focus on any of them.\u00a0 This has to be the most puzzling draft the Steelers have had in 20+ years. Despite several &#8220;need&#8221; picks being available, they grabbed who they felt was the best on the board and who could help immediately. We will [&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-1480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bwg-gr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480","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=1480"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1482,"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions\/1482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}