I don’t know that it will change anything. I don’t know that there will be any difference in the end results. Perhaps there won’t be anything different in that regard—and even if there were, we would probably not be able to tell. But there will be at least one thing different this year as the Pittsburgh Steelers prepare to the 2016 NFL Draft.
That is because it will be the first draft in team history during which they will have on the payroll staff a full-time analytics expert on hand. That man would be Karim Kassam, who was originally hired to the full-time position in August after moonlighting with the organization on a sort of trial basis.