{"id":3124,"date":"2021-04-29T20:39:12","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T20:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/?p=3124"},"modified":"2021-04-29T23:37:38","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T23:37:38","slug":"a-ten-year-look-back-at-the-steelers-1st-round-draft-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/?p=3124","title":{"rendered":"A ten year look back at the Steelers 1st Round Draft Picks!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since 1969 the Steelers have built their teams through the draft. Here is a look back at the recent history of the Steelers in the last ten years with a grade for each first round pick!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/f\/f6\/2021_NFL_Draft_logo.png\" alt=\"2021 NFL Draft logo.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table width=\"905\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"550\">Ranking the Steelers Last 10 Draft Picks<\/td>\n<td width=\"72\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"283\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Year, Player, College, When Chosen<\/td>\n<td>Grade<\/td>\n<td width=\"283\">Reason<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2020: No first-round selection<\/td>\n<td>A<\/td>\n<td width=\"283\">Alright cheating a little, but this Pick is Minkah Fitzpatrick so going A<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2019: Devin Bush, LB, Michigan (No. 10 overall)<\/td>\n<td>INC<\/td>\n<td width=\"283\">Early signs are that this is a great pick, but still too early to tell<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2018: Terrell Edmunds, S, Virginia Tech (No. 28)<\/td>\n<td>INC<\/td>\n<td width=\"283\">Too early to tell, lot of haters on this guy, but he is coming into his own<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2017: T.J. Watt, LB, Wisconsin (No. 30)<\/td>\n<td>A+<\/td>\n<td width=\"283\">Not sure it could get better than this guy, new face of the franchise<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2016: Artie Burns, CB, Miami (No. 25)<\/td>\n<td>F<\/td>\n<td width=\"283\">Never lived up to potential and is now a memory<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2015: Bud Dupree, LB, Kentucky (No. 22)<\/td>\n<td>A-<\/td>\n<td width=\"283\">Took a little longer to develop but was an outstanding contributor<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2014: Ryan Shazier, LB, Ohio State (No. 15)<\/td>\n<td>A<\/td>\n<td width=\"283\">Would have been an A+, was on track for an amazing career, was still great!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2013: Jarvis Jones, LB, Georgia (No. 17)<\/td>\n<td>D<\/td>\n<td width=\"283\">Never realized his potential and is now out of football<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2012: David DeCastro, G, Stanford (No. 24)<\/td>\n<td>A+<\/td>\n<td width=\"283\">One of the best guards if not the best guard in football (Special to KGB and me)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2011: Cameron Heyward, DE, Ohio State (No. 31)<\/td>\n<td>A+<\/td>\n<td width=\"283\">The Anchor of the defense for the past ten seasons!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since 1969 the Steelers have built their teams through the draft. Here is a look back at the recent history of the Steelers in the last ten years with a grade for each first round pick! &nbsp; Ranking the Steelers Last 10 Draft Picks Year, Player, College, When Chosen Grade Reason 2020: No first-round selection [&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-3124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bwg-gr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124","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=3124"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3130,"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124\/revisions\/3130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}