One of the debates that are always had at this time of year is how best to approach a draft and how to balance the talent available among the prospects in your range and what your actual roster looks like. This is generally framed as the debate between drafting for need and drafting the best player available.
While the Pittsburgh Steelers do maintain that they draft the best player available—a claim Mike Tomlin just doubled down on yesterday—they have made concessions in recent years in acknowledging that ‘need’ does play into it.
General Manager Kevin Colbert even acknowledged that he has been a part of such need selections in the past and talked about how that has the real potential to have a deleterious effect on a team that can be felt for years afterward.