Since everybody keeps talking about it, it’s going to keep popping up here, so bear with me, because this is yet another ‘is drafting a running back in the first round a mistake?’ piece, after Pittsburgh Steelers general manager Kevin Colbert was asked on SiriusXM yesterday if the team ever entertained the thought of avoiding the position in that way.
“A great player is a great player, regardless of the position”, he told Pat Kirwan. “We can look at all that data and so on and so forth. I’ve said it before, I’ve been around two Hall of Famer runners and they were both first-round picks in Jerome Bettis and Barry Sanders, and I know they helped us win a lot of games”.