Training camp is fast approaching now, and soon the offseason chatter will begin to fall always, but I would like to draw attention to an article back in April, in which former Pittsburgh Steelers safety Ryan Clark talked to Chris Bradford for the Beaver County Times, in which he talks about the team’s recent history of drafting defensive backs.
According to Clark—a former undrafted free agent himself who eventually worked his way up to being a Pro Bowler—he sees the bigger issue not in terms of identifying defensive back talent during the buildup to the draft process, but rather in sufficiently developing that talent after the fact.