Last year, the Pittsburgh Steelers tried the approach of drafting a player that one of their new coaches on the staff had worked with at their previous stop. Karl Dunbar was brought in to coach the offensive line in 2018, and they subsequently used a seventh-round pick on one of his players from Alabama, Joshua Frazier.
That didn’t end up working out. Frazier failed to make the 53-man roster, and even failed to make the practice squad. He ended up playing in the AAF this year and he yet to make it back to a 90-man roster, though the Steelers did already bring back one former college free agent defensive lineman who was in camp with them who would go on to play for the AAF.