You can hear the double-takes from here. The Steelers took Markis Deal at Round 7, Pick 8, roughly 54 spots before his name belonged. No fireworks, but a solid B-.

The quarterback hole is the one line item this class does not answer. The Hecht value carries more weight than any single miss elsewhere.

It is not that Hecht is a bad player; it is that the Steelers had louder needs to answer first.

All told, a solid class that does its job everywhere but quarterback.