In the first half of Kevin Colbert’s tenure as the Steelers general manager, he invested some high draft picks in receivers, with varying amounts of success. Plaxico Burress came in the first round of his first draft in 2000. Antwaan Randle El came in the second round in 2002 and Limas Sweed in the second round in 2008.
None of those players made it to second contracts with the Steelers. Burress and Randle El left as free agents after their first contract expired (though both returned for one-year stints at the end of their careers) and Sweed lasted only two seasons before he was cut.