For every year since 2013, I have been watching David DeCastro, the Pittsburgh Steelers’ 2012 first-round draft pick, at right guard, looking for the improvements necessary to vault him to the Pro Bowl status that he was pegged with back then when he was regarded as a steal.
The guard has turned into an above average lineman, but his game still lacks a level of consistency required to regard him as a great at his position in the game right now. Not that there is anything wrong with being an above average guard who has specific assets that are legitimately special, as his pull blocking has come to define the Steelers’ most successful running play over the span of the last three years.