While the Pittsburgh Steelers have certainly taken their chances in the past on physically gifted players who have a lot of catching up to do as football players—think Bud Dupree or Artie Burns—they have generally favored bringing in ‘gamer’-type athletes to add to their locker room.
Their most recent three first-round picks tell that story. All three of them—T.J. Watt in 2017, Terrell Edmunds in 2018, and Devin Bush in 2019—come from NFL bloodlines, the two most recent being second-generation NFL players, while Watt is of course the younger brother of J.