It’s said a draft class can’t be fully graded until at least three years after the picks are made. That’s why after submitting grades for every Pittsburgh Steelers pick made in 2021, I went back three years and graded every selection from the 2018 class. But why stop there? Why not continue to go back through past Steelers’ classes with even more time to prove picks good/bad, and see how well each turned out? That look back continues today with the second of the team’s third-round picks in the 2017 NFL Draft, Pittsburgh running back James Conner.
This exercise will follow the same six viewpoints (listed below) for examining a pick that re-grading the 2018 class did.