Truth be told, there’s little incentive from a fan perspective to not be excited by your team’s draft class. It’s not like you benefit from being a pessimist even if you’re confident that the team you root for had a bad draft class that ultimately won’t pan out. At worst, I think, you might as well hope for the best, even if you expect the worst, because outside of brownie points, the only prize you win for being disappointed in a player is having been disappointed longer.
The Pittsburgh Steelers’ draft class has drawn very mixed reviews from pick to pick, but by far the closest we’ve gotten to some universal consensus is an acknowledgement of their doing well to draft the two wide receivers they did, in the second and fourth rounds: George Pickens and Calvin Austin III, respectively.