~OFFICIAL 2023 TSF.COM FANTASY DRAFT STEELERS VOTING & DISCUSSION~

Oof.. a lot of votes for Mazi Smith already. I managed to watch some games lately, and I’m torn. I see big potential, but inconsistency.

My vote goes to Trenton Simpson. I see some Shazier-like traits in him. He’s behind where Shazier was coming out of school, but he has that extra gear and downhill aggression that we need at the ILB spot.

 

Vote Tally:

Mazi Smith: 5
Trenton Simpson: 6
Dawand Jones: 1

Wow, some surprises here. No votes for Campbell? And only 1 vote for Jones, I would have preferred Jones here but since he won’t get the votes I am going to go with Simpson.

TDFW, I came up with one more vote for Smith. My vote for Simpson brings his tally to 6.

Double check that for me, please.

 

Ah yeah, he said nominate not vote.

Yes, I just voted for Simpson in my previous post.

@S.T.D who do you like more out of these guys, cast a vote. You can keep your guy secret so no one steals him from you before your pick

 

Trenton Simpson has the votes.

That was a close race between two good prospects.

 

Not drafting Campbell because you have Holcomb would be like not drafting a slot receiver because you have Switzer.

Campbell is a big boy with great athletic traits, he doesn’t have the long speed but I think he tested better than any other LB at the combine.

Holcomb was also brought in for his coverage abilities, he ran a 4.48 and has filled every roll as a LB. Steelers are going for versatile players as well as big bodies, I think they want to take advantage of teams going with smaller quicker players, they want to be able to bully teams.

I’m tired of seeing lineman get their hands on players like Bush and wash them out of the play.

 

The results in the tests he did perform were elite.

6.74 three cone
4.24 shuttle
1.59 10 yard split
10’ 8” broad jump
37.5 inch vertical

All that at 250lbs. The guy IMO is hands down the best ILB in this draft

He can also cover, 236 yards on 418 coverage snaps. You’re obviously not going to ask him to run down the seam to cover anyone but zone he is very good at. He can cover shallow.

 

All that means is they also tested very good. 1.70 is what you are looking for from that test. At 250lbs he did that in 1.59.

Whatever concerns there were about Campbells athletic abilities he obliterated them.

I haven’t seen one big board that doesn’t have him ranked the best ILB. I doubt he lasts to 49.

 

I was probably going to take him for Detroit. Lot of potential with him.

On a side note to all, please use this thread for discussions and the announcement thread strictly for announcements so I don’t have to sift through them to find announced picks. Getting messy over there, makes it tougher to keep track of who has been selected.

 

Throwing a name out to consider, Tyler Steen, tackle out of Alabama.

Alabama seem to put out good lineman.

Don’t really know of any others. Was going to vote Dawand Jones but drunk GM just took him.