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Draft Selections
Troy Fautanu Head Shot
PICK: 20 RND: 1 (PIT)
Troy Fautanu
OT Washington
Ruke Orhorhoro Head Shot
PICK: 51 RND: 2 (PIT)
Ruke Orhorhoro
DT Clemson
Ja'Lynn Polk Head Shot
PICK: 84 RND: 3 (PIT)
Ja'Lynn Polk
WR Washington
Kris Abrams-Draine Head Shot
PICK: 98 RND: 3 (PIT)
Kris Abrams-Draine
CB Missouri
Mason McCormick Head Shot
PICK: 119 RND: 4 (PIT)
Mason McCormick
OT South Dakota State
Tanor Bortolini Head Shot
PICK: 178 RND: 6 (PIT)
Tanor Bortolini
C Wisconsin
Keith Randolph Jr. Head Shot
PICK: 195 RND: 6 (PIT)
Keith Randolph Jr.
DL-EDGE Illinois
Draft Grade — Steelers
Overall B-
ValueC+ NeedB- TradesB- FutureB-
The Steelers did the meat-and-potatoes work well: B-.

Boards are made to be trusted, and the Steelers shredded theirs for Mason McCormick. He came off 27 spots early, and the room will hear about it. Nothing here to lose sleep over; call it a B-.

It is not that McCormick is a bad player; it is that the Steelers had louder needs to answer first. The quarterback spot stays a question, and it was the one they most needed an answer at. The Abrams-Draine pick alone nudges the whole weekend up a notch.

Good work on the whole, with quarterback the one box left unchecked.

Pick Analysis
Pick20 Rnd1 Troy Fautanu
In the 20th pick they get a plug-and-play piece up front at fair value.
Pick51 Rnd2 Ruke Orhorhoro
Ruke Orhorhoro at pick No. 51 is a clear overpay, with better names still on the board. It also answers one of the loudest questions on the roster.
Pick84 Rnd3 Ja'Lynn Polk
Ja'Lynn Polk in pick 84 is a bargain the rest of the room will envy. It shores up a spot that genuinely needed the help.
Pick98 Rnd3 Kris Abrams-Draine
Kris Abrams-Draine slipping to the Round 3 slot is the kind of luck good rooms make for themselves. Another box on the needs board, quietly ticked.
Pick119 Rnd4 Mason McCormick
A surprising call. With quarterback, safety and other spots still to address, they spent the 119th overall pick on Mason McCormick, an offensive lineman they were not short of.
Pick178 Rnd6 Tanor Bortolini
They liked Tanor Bortolini enough to skip the value, taking him in Round 6, Pick 3. Pure best-available; the position was not exactly begging.
Pick195 Rnd6 Keith Randolph Jr.
They reached into another round for Keith Randolph Jr., and the board is nowhere close to agreeing. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.