This year, the Pittsburgh Steelers could take another swing at drafting a quarterback in the first round. With this looking like a weaker quarterback class, though, some fans might be a little gun-shy about that. The last time the Steelers drafted a signal caller in Round 1, they took Kenny Pickett. That didn’t work out well at all. Chris Simms recently talked about why he thinks the Steelers made that selection, and why it went wrong.
“With the Kenny Pickett situation, just having talked to people there through the years, I think there was a little bit of, ‘Hey, we can’t wait to get a guy that replaces Big Ben [Roethlisberger] and move on to the next era,'” Simms said Wednesday on Pro Football Talk.