For a team who typically drafts in the back half of the first round, it seems often enough that the Pittsburgh Steelers’ desired target is the worst-kept secret in the NFL—and yet, often enough, they end up getting their man. It happened in 2010 with Maurkice Pouncey, for example, then with Cameron Heyward and David DeCastro in the following two years.
As much as it might make you cringe, they ran that count up to four years in a row in 2013 with Jarvis Jones. There have been fewer ‘obvious’ targets in recent years, though they so desired Devin Bush in 2019 that they traded up to get him.