We nearly had Chris Johnson instead we got Mendenhall

[SteelerSask2]

Mike Tomlin is a reader of people and helps mentor youth. It probably wasn't what was said my Johnson, it was probably more on how Johnson said it that turned off Tomlin to immediately end a conversation. There were character issues with Johnson going into the draft, and he was unwilling to give the Steelers a chance to look him over directly since they were considering drafting a RB early.

Still would have loved to have him over Mendy.

But as I recall I believe Mendenhall was the number one RB coming out of college that year. I think people like with D. Bush were mostly happy with the pick at the time. Hard to understand why it didn't. In hindsight you should be easily be able to see that D. Bush is too small. Mendenhall had all the tools.

 

[Litos]

But as I recall I believe Mendenhall was the number one RB coming out of college that year. I think people like with D. Bush were mostly happy with the pick at the time. Hard to understand why it didn't. In hindsight you should be easily be able to see that D. Bush is too small. Mendenhall had all the tools.

Many of us didn't like his height, I wanted him without trading up or would have rather kept the original pick and the 3rd, and get noah fant

 

[SteelerSask2]

Many of us didn't like his height, I wanted him without trading up or would have rather kept the original pick and the 3rd, and get noah fant

Clearly in hindsight I agree. Because I only watch so much college sometimes I get swept up in evaluation. When I saw him standing next to the huge HS kid I was like Jeez.

 

[Litos]

Clearly in hindsight I agree. Because I only watch so much college sometimes I get swept up in evaluation. When I saw him standing next to the huge HS kid I was like Jeez.

The when I saw him dressing like a clown on draft day I knew the kid would be trouble

 

[Troglodyte]

In fairness, Bush had a pretty good rookie season.

 

[SteelerSask2]

In fairness, Bush had a pretty good rookie season.

It was super good in the first 9 or 10 and he rookie walled down the stretch.