Steelers 2024 Offseason Thread

[genoscoif]

No you can't have him.

[LeopardLetang]

I don't want to click Twitter who is it? Deebo?

[skullman80]

I don't want to click Twitter who is it? Deebo?

Aiyuk.

[Ad@m]

AD knows

[DigitalGypsy66]

I'd like to see him come patrol the sidelines in Latrobe this summer.

[LITT]

Just don’t let him go to the Southside

[MR25]

[nocera]

Kick returner? I can see him getting too many offensive snaps above Harris and Warren

[the wicked child]

Kick returner? I can see him getting too many offensive snaps above Harris and Warren

Pretty much. I think I saw earlier that he has 9 KO return TDs.

[Morkle]

He's a kick-returner, gimmick play guy. Love the get.

[Trip McNeely]

With these new kickoff rules, returners are important again and the Steelers got one of the best

[genoscoif]

Anyone else concerned about the Center situation? Looking around, they have to draft a C in the 1st or 2nd round, don't they? The free agents all look very meh (except Connor Williams, who tore his ACL late last year), and we've currently got, who, Herbig? on the roster.

Problem with drafting one is...how many plug and play rookie Cs have there been? I'd imagine it's quite the jump from college to NFL, and having to call out protections and whatnot can't be something that's 'easy'. I was all for JPJ in the first round if they could get him, but man that's putting a lot of chips into a rookie that you'd be asking to perform immediately.

Not complaining, as I don't really know what other options they had, but as we've watched them fill holes the last 2 years this one seems tougher.

[nocera]

Best. Shape. Of. His. Life.

[dodint]

So he loafed around fat and happy for the first three years and now that it's contract time he's ready to try? Cool.

[Troy Loney]

Anyone else concerned about the Center situation? Looking around, they have to draft a C in the 1st or 2nd round, don't they? The free agents all look very meh (except Connor Williams, who tore his ACL late last year), and we've currently got, who, Herbig? on the roster.

Problem with drafting one is...how many plug and play rookie Cs have there been? I'd imagine it's quite the jump from college to NFL, and having to call out protections and whatnot can't be something that's 'easy'. I was all for JPJ in the first round if they could get him, but man that's putting a lot of chips into a rookie that you'd be asking to perform immediately.

Not complaining, as I don't really know what other options they had, but as we've watched them fill holes the last 2 years this one seems tougher.

I think there are a couple of plug and play centers (jpj and Frazier).

They will obviously get either one of them, or sign/trade for a new one.

The draft is a little funky for what the Steelers want to do there. I think there are like 6 tackles that would be plug and play RTs that they would take should they fall to 20. But if say Mims is the only big tackle left, they might look to trade down from that spot, get an extra pick and then draft the center.

I think a cornerstone tackle is the most valuable asset potentially at 20. The WR will be at their pick in the 50’s, and then probably a slot corner with one of the 3rd round picks. But I think if a tackle falls to 20, or they just want mims, then they probably trade up in the second to get Frazier.

[Beveridge]

You convince Kelce to play, duh.

[DigitalGypsy66]

"Best shape of his life" will never not be funny for Pittsburgh sports fans.

[genoscoif]

So he loafed around fat and happy for the first three years and now that it's contract time he's ready to try? Cool.

I think there's been a general lack of accountability and leadership on the offensive side of the ball for several years, even back to the last of the Ben days. Contract situations definitely get the players' attention, but so does cleaning out your entire QB room and trading your 1B WR. I'd imagine that side of the ball will have a different energy this year. More Jaylen-type than Najee-type...which is nothing but good IMO.

[Pavel Bure]

Kick returner? I can see him getting too many offensive snaps above Harris and Warren

He wasn’t a RB until he went to ATL. They then transitioned him from WR to RB and he excelled in a hybrid role. That was a couple years ago though, not sure how much he has in the tank.

[Trip McNeely]

Anyone else concerned about the Center situation? Looking around, they have to draft a C in the 1st or 2nd round, don't they? The free agents all look very meh (except Connor Williams, who tore his ACL late last year), and we've currently got, who, Herbig? on the roster.

Problem with drafting one is...how many plug and play rookie Cs have there been? I'd imagine it's quite the jump from college to NFL, and having to call out protections and whatnot can't be something that's 'easy'. I was all for JPJ in the first round if they could get him, but man that's putting a lot of chips into a rookie that you'd be asking to perform immediately.

Not complaining, as I don't really know what other options they had, but as we've watched them fill holes the last 2 years this one seems tougher.

I think there are a couple of plug and play centers (jpj and Frazier).

They will obviously get either one of them, or sign/trade for a new one.

The draft is a little funky for what the Steelers want to do there. I think there are like 6 tackles that would be plug and play RTs that they would take should they fall to 20. But if say Mims is the only big tackle left, they might look to trade down from that spot, get an extra pick and then draft the center.

I think a cornerstone tackle is the most valuable asset potentially at 20. The WR will be at their pick in the 50’s, and then probably a slot corner with one of the 3rd round picks. But I think if a tackle falls to 20, or they just want mims, then they probably trade up in the second to get Frazier.

I would trade to somehow find a center with the cap space available and then go OT and WR in the first two rounds

[nocera]

You convince Kelce to play, duh.

They have some competition there.

[Ad@m]

[Lemon Berry Lobster]

[Troy Loney]

BOO!

[robbiestoupe]

Nearly forgot about the draft tonight. Just no interest in it this year