PITTSBURGH (AP) – Steelers coach Mike Tomlin couldn’t help but laugh when asked if picking at No. 31 is the worst possible scenario for the NFL Draft.
After all, the 31st pick is the penultimate selection of every round – but having the only one lower signifies your team is the Super Bowl champion.
Still, Tomlin pointed out at least one draft position he finds even worse.
“No. 1 is,” he said, “as far as I’m concerned.”
Tomlin and director of football operations Kevin Colbert discussed the Steelers’ draft plans during a news conference Monday, revealing that the team whittled its initial list of roughly 1,000 prospects down to about 160.
The reigning AFC champions say they are approaching the uncertainty created surrounding the lockout by assuming that the roster contains only players who are under contract.
“We’re going to pick based on our team as it currently stands,” Colbert said. “I don’t know how it currently stands because there’s different possibilities that exist. But when the lockout began this is our team as we know it, and we’re going to draft accordingly.”
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