Been watching more to get a better look at their positional board. Finally showed a good shot (8:12 mark), tho everything right of OLB was cut off. That's ok, cuz from previous photos I could make that out anyways. They had two photos of their board at steelers.com on draft day one. One was a blurry shot from a distance, and the other was an overexposed black and white right before their pick of Shazier. Could make out some things, but other things weren't so clear or confident. If there was a prospect at a position where there were gaps between him and the next guy, it was discernible. It was just when players were bunched and the blur bled into each other that it got dicey. Couldn't tell if it was two prospect or three, like at WR or OT.
But the screen shot from this video makes most of it pretty clear. And those few players to the right of OLB were isolated players so they could be made out. So as a composite, it all came into much better focus, so to speak.
Anyways, 12 players populate the first 2 rows, 19 takes you thru row 3. Which is how many prospects Colbert said they felt comfortable taking R1. Donald has to be the lone DT/NT in that range, as that prospects card is removed in the b/w photo when the Steelers are on the clock. Tuitt pretty much has to be that lone DE in the top 19, as the drop from there makes it nearly impossible for the 2nd DE on their board to be him (next DE is Row 5, 30+ prospects later).
Guessing Martin was outside their R1 hopefuls, 4th OT overall. Guessing their 5th was Kouandijo, cuz that card was redflagged, tho I can't tell if flagged for med or character (+ or O) Interesting, Lewan was not flagged at all. No red on the top 3 OTs.
Straddling the line between row 1 and row 2 is a TE, obviously Ebron. #7 overall on their board. #9 on their board is ILB, Shazier. #8 is their #3 OT. Rounding out row two at #10-12 is their top CB, DT/NT, DE in roughly that order, from what I can tell.
Their #3 and #4 WR are in that 'top 19', Top QB on their board sandwiched between them. They make up #13-15. Then CB, QB, CB, and ILB closing out their 19.
Obviously Shazier cannot be that second ILB at 19, so he's #9 on their board in the top ILB spot. Unlike CB, they didn't really host any of the top WRs for visits, so it's hard to say who their top 2-4 WRs were and what order. But I'd be shocked if Odell Beckham was rated higher on their board than one of Watkins or Evans, as well as Ebron and their #3 OT. Would put him at #6 overall on their board if Beckham is that #2 WR. Can't say for sure, but I really doubt that. Guessing he's #3 or #4 WR on their board. Which, like their top CB, would put him below Shazier on their board. All pointing towards what I suspected. Dulac (or his source) was full of crap.
Wasn't exactly linear in that summary, so here's a breakout:
1. OLB
2. WR
3. OT
4. OLB2
5. OT2
6. WR2
7. TE, Ebron
8. OT3
9. ILB, Shazier
10. CB Gilbert or Fuller, can't be Dennard
11. NT/DT Donald
12. DE Tuitt
13. WR3
14. QB
15. WR4
16. CB2
17. QB2
18. CB3
19. ILB2
Then it looks like:
20. ILB3
21. WR5
22. OT4
23. Safety
24. OT5 redflagged
25. TE2 redflagged
Then you get to row 5 and it bottlenecks, particularly at OLB, and RB. Row 1 appears to be reserved for the special players. Guys, who if they fell to them at their pick they'll run their card in immediately. If that's true, the guys they thought were special were their top 2 WR, top 2 OTs and top two OLBs. Row 2 looks to be guys who they think have a shot at being there who they'd have no problem drafting at their spot. Call it their target cluster if none of those special players drop to them. Row 3 looks like the group that maybe if they couldn't trade back, would be fine with taking at their spot. Fwtw, Shazier was in the middle of row 2, as was Tuitt (TE, OT3, ILB, CB, DT/NT, DE, and maybe WR3).
From another picture, I know Clowney was listed as an OLB. One of Clowney, Mack, Barr were not in their top 19. Quite a drop between their 2nd OLB and 3rd OLB, 30ish players, from 1st row to 5th. OTs were Robinson, Matthews, Lewan in unknown order. Top 3 OTs are cleared off their board in the b/w when it was their pick.
