Every year this group faces the same issue with creating our Steelers-specific Big Board: excellent prospects get downgraded to the point of absurdity, which leads to angst and argument about why Prospect X will never, ever fall that far.
These protests miss the basic point, of course. A top-10 talent for one team can easily be someone the Steelers wouldn’t want to pick before Round 3, to pick one example. But it does sort of offend the eye, and therefore leads to a question that’s yet to be answered well. Should we remove the player completely to avoid that cognitive dissonance?