Pro Football Focus isn’t always the kindest outlet in the world to the Pittsburgh Steelers, though they do have their favorite players, like Cameron Heyward, Stephon Tuitt, and T.J. Watt in recent years to balance out their dissatisfaction with others like Maurkice Pouncey and company.
So I wasn’t going into an article about draft history with high expectations about how they would gauge the Steelers. In fact, from the period between 2006 and 2016, they considered the Steelers’ draft success to be only middling, using their own measurements for success.