Nothing better demonstrates the inexact nature of scouting than looking back on drafts of the past and seeing how players actually panned out relative to how they were viewed coming out of college. Every single year, you have players either rise significantly above how they were perceived or fall far short of it.
According to NFL personnel around the league, evidently, the Pittsburgh Steelers own one of the biggest draft misses in recent years. Jeremy Fowler of ESPN put together an Insider article looking back at some of the most significant players in recent drafts that have fallen short of their pedigree, with executives and scouting from around the NFL weighing in on them.