Draft Prospect Visits

Cam Sutton CB Tennessee - senior bowl and Combine
Damarius Travis S Minnesota - shrine game (still loved Cedric Thompson from 2015)
Nate Hairston CB Temple - Combine
Marquez White CB FSU - Combine
Shaquill Griffin CB Cent. Fla. - Combine
Tre'Davious White CB LSU - Combine
Desmond King CB Iowa - Combine
Lorenzo Jerome S St Francis - Combine
Marcus Williams S Utah - Combine
Montae Nicholson S Michigan St - Combine

Austin Calitro LB Villanova - shrine game
Derek Rivers OLB Youngstown State All Star game and Combine
Tim Williams OLB Alabama - Combine
TJ Watt OLB Wisconsin - Combine
Haason Reddick LB Temple - Combine
Ejuan Price OLB Pitt - Combine
Ryan Anderson OLB Alabama - Combine
JoJo Mathis OLB Washington - Combine
Devonte Fields OLB Louisville - Combine
Tashawn Bower LSU - Combine
Duke Riley OLB LSU - Combine
Tarell Basham OLB Ohio - Combine
Carl Lawson OLB Auburn - Combine

Fadol Brown DE Ole Miss - Combine
Tanoh Kpassagnon DE Villanova - Combine
Isaac Rochell DE/DT Notre Dame
DeMarcus Walker DE/OLB FSU - Combine
Elijah Qualls DL Washington - Combine
Chris Wormley DE Michigan - Combine

Wayne Gallman RB Clemson - Combine
D'Onta Foreman RB Texas - Combine
Jahad Thomas RB Temple - Combine
Marlon Mack RB South Florida - Combine
Samaje Perine RB Oklahoma - Combine

Roderick Johnson OT FSU - informal Combine
Ethan Cooper G IUP - Combine (looked good in drills to me)
Jordan Morgan Kuntztown - Combine
Dion Dawkins T Temple - Combine

Evan Engram TE Ole Miss - Combine
Gerald Everett TE S. Alabama - Combine
Scott Orndoff TE Pitt - Combine
Jeremy Sprinkle TE Arkansas - Combine
Pharaoh Brown TE Oregon - Combine
Adam Shaheen TE Ashland - Combine
Michael Roberts TE Toledo - Combine

Pat Mahomes QB Texas Tech - Combine
Brad Kaaya QB Miami - Combine
CJ Beathard QB Iowa - Combine
Josh Dobbs QB Tenn - Combine
Cooper Rush QB Central Michigan - Combine
Deshone Kizer QB Notre Dame - Combine

Ryan Switzer WR UNC - senior bowl
Josh Reynolds WR Texas A&M - Combine
Greg Ward QB/WR Houston - Combine
Chris Godwin WR PSU - Combine
John Ross WR Washington - Combine
Shelton Gibson WR WVU - Combine

 

feel free to add.....

 

I was just looking at this and was shocked they only met with 3 guys. If I am right the visits at the Shrine Game and Senior Bowl don't count towards our 30 visits right? Why not meet with more, am I wrong to wonder that? I was looking at all the team visits and yeah there are a few teams that was like us but most met with a lot of players, this is a great opportunity for our staff to get extra time with these guys.....

http://www.walterfootball.com/ProspectMeetings/ByTeam

 

While these don't count toward our visits, I don't necessarily have a problem with the lack of visits. We spend a bunch of time with guys on their college days. That is what we do. In addition, it is possible that they just don't like a bunch of guys from the game.

 

I would be almost 100% sure the list of players they met with is much bigger. They can have official visits with 60 players at the combine and 30 visits with local prospects at their training facility. The unofficial visits on the other hand probably number in the hundreds. I believe the ones reported by the media, a la Walterfootball, are only the ones they actually see happening or are reported to them by a trusted source.

Here's an interesting article I found on how some teams can take scouting to different levels...

https://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/...t-prospects/I5EIHKwSQBvl6fvwQNVkyL/story.html

 

Again preparation is key. If you are going to invest a lot of money in someone/something aren't
you going to do your homework?

 

I disagree you take every chance you get to meet with the prospects who you are going to be spend time and money on. Especially when your the Steelers who pride themselves as a team that builds thru the draft. Now as far as not liking guys from the Shrine and Senior bowl we are in trouble, we are talking about 180-200 players.

 

Very good read, kinda what I was thinking as far as how serious teams are during this process.

 

well we start our draft with the 30th ranked guy. there are 44 starters in the game on both sides. we are well down in the pecking order in each round so we will have to look deep and a lot of the top tier guys may just be out of our reach. we don't have that 6th round pick either to try to sweeten the pot with in a move either. we probably remove offensive linemen from this group too so that takes us 10 + more guys down the ladder.

 

True however our top 30 and other peoples top 30 are different so I am going to say anyone from 11-30 you keep in case of a Decastro deal again, right? Also don't we have two 5th rounders to make up for the loss of the 6th? Agreed about the oline, probably a spot we aren't looking at.

 

We dont need OL help. 5 starters 5 backups on our roster.

Finney
Hubbard
Hawkins
Dude from Denver
Wallace
Malik

We dont need an 11th OL.

 

Maybe we are just trying to keep a low profile ...some undercover interviews after the Ben-gals "obviously""stole our picks last year... In all seriousness though I did read somewhere that the Steelers were " ghosts" down there. I don't know if they meant not really represented or laying low....

 

WR Ryan Switzer at Senior Bowl. They names will come dripping out. They always do.

 

i'm just talking about heavily having meetings with that many top guys from those games. it limits us pretty much. throw out the o-linemen and we have a small sample size that we really have a shot at. sure guys drop but there is a lot out there on the top guys to go from.

 

I thought the 6th rounder was in 2018 if you are referring to the Gilbert trade. Unless we lost one this year too for someone else?

 

you may be right on that one and i may be wrong turtle. i thought gilberts was for this draft.

 

just about the time we need to be seriously looking for a replacement. that would have helped us move up from 32.

 

Yes pretty sure that was what I said........

 

I see what your saying and that is fine if you are talking "top" prospects however between the 2 games the is like 200 players. If there is a small list of "top" players they are interested in fine that is even more reason to spend time with the "lower" prospects. There is so much coverage on these "top" prospects that I feel spending time with the "lower" prospects is that much more important. We are not FA players and get a ton of credit for building in the draft, with that said that is why I am questioning the lack of meeting. But like someone pointed out they might have had "unofficial" meetings with other and it wasn't reported or went unknown. I am just talking about what I have read and it was only 3 prospects in 2 games.........jmo

 

Derek Rivers, OLB Youngstown State
Isaac Rochelle, DE/DT Notre Dame

 

D'onte Foreman, RB. Played at 245 last year, had 2000 yds rushing
Wayne Gallman, rb

 

Tanoh Kpossagen, DE/OLB
Patrick Mahommes II, QB
Josh Reynolds, WR
Gerald Everett, TE
Cooper Rush, QB

 

Met with OLB Derek Rivers at Senior Bowl

 

Michael Roberts, TE (Hats off, Steelersrule)
Evan Engram, TE