Few teams have put more of their eggs into the NFL Draft basket than have the Pittsburgh Steelers, a team that rarely indulges in free agency and prefers to retain their own players with big-money contracts instead while supplementing their ranks with the next class of college prospects.
The one area in which they have shined more than any other over the course of the past decade has been in picking up quality players at the wide receiver position. While Limas Sweed was a big miss in the second round in 2008, Mike Wallace as a third-round pick a year later began an impressive run.