~OFFICIAL 2024 TSF.COM FANTASY DRAFT STEELERS VOTING & DISCUSSION~

https://steelersdepot.com/2024/04/s...ed-to-steelers-fit-arthur-smiths-preferences/

According to this article, the Steelers may not be looking at JPJ at all. There are other Centers available in this draft.

Of the players left on the board that I would vote to draft, I think I go Tyler Guyton OT.

 

Tough call with Latham, Mims, and Guyton all on the board... and Fuaga? I gave up on him falling to 20 awhile ago.

Still, I'm sticking with center here. Not as much depth at the position as tackle in this draft, and passing on tackle again potentially increases the depth for us to take in the third, and/or creates the chance a WR from the early second falls as teams scoop up the OL talent.


Jackson Power-Johnson, C, University of Oregon

 

So much depends on how much credit you put into RAS scores, coaches meetings, and dinners used to be the clincher.

 

For me it burns that we didn't land Cushenberry or Biadasz in free agency so we aren't staring at the hole we currently have in the middle. Fuaga, Latham, Mims, and Guyton would all be great pieces to bookend with Jones.

Unless there's something I don't know about Herbig.

 

What do you know about Herbig?

 

Extremely tough choice here.... Powers-Johnson is a human forklift in the middle, while Fuaga and Mims are major people movers on the right..... worst part is that neither pick would be wrong.....
I'll throw my vote for Taliese Fuaga, as there are other viable options at C that should be available in the next rd, while we would be seriously rolling the dice at OT if we wait

 

I officially vote for JPJ.

The Steelers two biggest needs right now are Center and Wide Receiver. It makes sense to fill a need here. The Steelers can get by with Dan Moore at tackle. They can not get by with Herbig at Center.

 

I am voting for Jackson Powers-Johnson.

 

Mind blowing that 3 STUD OT's are STILL available at 20...don't remember anything like that before

I vote Mims

 

The stat that amazed me about Fuaga is that he gave up a grand total of zero sacks in his entire career at Oregon State. He never once guessed wrong or was late getting off the line of scrimmage and was beaten for a sack in 25 career games at RT. At 6'6" 335 he is a monster in the run game too.

 

I have no problems with JPJ, and if he is our pick, I'm not going to take my ball and go home. I just feel that Fuaga is a far better value at pick 20, that it's a position of need, and that we tend to overvalue certain players and positions (Darnell Washington, anybody). While many early March mocks had JPJ going sometimes as high as 16, later March and early April mocks are seeing him drop late in the first or early second. Heck, one NFL.com mock had us taking JPJ with our second round pick. Picking at 20 and getting the second or third best tackle out of an outstanding tackle class would be a no brainer any other year.

 

I hear you and what you are saying makes a lot of sense. It's just that Fuaga is still there at #20 when I thought that he would be gone by now. The prospect of the next decade of bookend tackles of Jones and Fuaga is hard to pass up. But if the choice is Powers-Johnson then I will be greatly pleased with that also.

 

Once our draft went 3WRs in a row at picks 4,5,&6 it threw the OT order off. There are literally 9-OTs that I have seen mocked to the 1st round. When you start talking about the DBs, defensive front7, QBs, and the Centers we have been coveting on top of that, position of need values change. There is about to be a run on OTs and the Steelers have their pick of the litter at 20. Minus Alt and Olu, which we weren't expecting anyway.

 

In the real draft I would take Fuaga here and then do our darndest to trade back into the late first and take Frazier. But you having me waffling on my Fuaga choice. If it comes down to a tie vote I might switch to JPJ because Frazier won't last to #51.

 

I see three tiers of tackles- 1st tier is Alt and Fashanu, the latter only because he is a left tackle. 2nd tier is Fuaga, Mims, and Latham, primarily tight tackles. Third tier is Fautanu (could be second), Suamataia, Guyton, Morgan, and maybe Paul. The drop off between 2 and 3 is large, anything after 3 is way larger. No one after 3 is going to help us much this year, and it's unlikely anyone 3 and under is there for our 2nd round pick.
As far as most of us are concerned, Barton, JPJ, and Frazier are all pretty much a lock to start day one. Van Pran-Granger will be starting mid-year. Most of the teams "looking for centers" already have serviceable ones on their rosters. They will go for the more valuable positions- WR, T, Edge, CB. I just don't see three centers going by 51, or reasonably close for a trade up.

 

I think the Steelers should take the best player on the board, so you can change my vote from Mims to Fuaga as I have him ranked a lot hirer than JPJ.

I still think Mims has the bigger upside, but Fuaga will be a week 1 starter.

 

At least we all seem to be agreed on OL.

 

Well, we do have the guy who wants Spencer Rattler here, but no one told him about the mock draft.

 

I don't think in the real draft he will still be available to us, but if he is:

Taliese Fuaga OT Oregon State