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Pittsburgh Steelers Draft Picks: Bud Dupree was a slam-dunk pick at 22

Alvin "Bud" Dupree was originally projected in a lot of mock drafts to fall to the Steelers. Then the Combine happened, and he put up outstanding numbers. He rose up into top-ten consideration, but somehow managed to fall down -- right to where he started when the NFL season ended, to the Steelers with the twenty-second pick. It was a no-brainer at that point.

All day today, I had one nagging thought in the back of my mind: the best option available to the Steelers at the twenty-second pick of the 2015 NFL Draft could very well be to try trading down -- or out of the first round altogether.