It’s always important to gauge floors versus ceilings when looking at draft prospects. In the first round, most teams are looking for the rare talents who provide both a high floor and ceiling so they can contribute early and scale into the future. Sometimes the ceilings are too high to ignore, and teams will gamble on what a player might become regardless of what they currently are. Nobody fits that description better than Jalen Milroe. The Steelers have shown interest in him, but are they willing to roll the dice?
Daniel Jeremiah laid out a compelling case that several NFL teams – including the Steelers – are probably mulling behind closed doors leading up to the draft.