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Jessie Bates Looking To Take On Bigger Leadership Role For Bengals In Year Four

There may not be a more widely-debated first-round pick in the Mike Tomlin era for the Pittsburgh Steelers than safety Terrell Edmunds, drafted in 2018. Far from an outright bust in the vein of an Artie Burns or a Jarvis Jones, he also hasn’t achieved successes like David DeCastro or even Bud Dupree, who took time to develop. Many people are still trying to formulate an opinion on him.

It was almost universally regarded as an overdraft, though, when Edmunds was taken in the first round, even though there was late-developing buzz on draft day that he could sneak into the first 32, which, of course, he did.