The Pittsburgh Steelers clearly erred in 2019 when they traded up 10 spots in the first round of the NFL Draft for Devin Bush. The sixth-year linebacker is likely now a career backup at this point. But it’s not the result that Seth Walder of ESPN criticizes in a recent article. Rather, he attacks the process by which the Steelers came to making the trade in the first place.
Walder explores a number of what he considers logical fallacies that teams have employed over the years to explain decisions to trade up. He cites comments that former Steelers general manager Kevin Colbert made as an example of the “We had extra picks” fallacy.