There are just some years in which it almost feels like an inevitability that the Pittsburgh Steelers, provided that they get the opportunity, will draft a specific player in the first round. I recall that sense in 2010 with center Maurkice Pouncey, and again in 2011 with Cameron Heyward, the son if Craig ‘Ironhead’ Heyward, who has very much forged his own legacy.
There was a bit of that sense in 2012 with David DeCastro as well, but it was a dicey proposition that he would fall to them.