On Tuesday morning, CBS Sports’ Pete Prisco gave out grades to each team for their 2021 draft haul with enough time passed to give a more accurate grade than the instant knee-jerk reactions following each draft. He gave the Pittsburgh Steelers a C-. That was Kevin Colbert’s penultimate draft in charge of making the selections, which gave me the idea to rank the top and bottom five draft classes from his 23-year stint in charge of drafting for the team.
This is subjective by nature, but I attempted to use as much data and statistics as possible to support each placement.