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Steelers Retain Entire Rookie Draft Class For Second Consecutive Year

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The Pittsburgh Steelers this year—at least initially—just did something for the second year in a row that I can’t definitively say they had ever done before. For the second year in a row, they retained all of their draft picks, albeit with a caveat. As far as I can verify, they had never before rostered every single draft pick initially prior to last season. Now, with Omar Khan’s second draft, they have done so again.

Let’s just get the caveat out of the way first, and that is sixth-round DB Ryan Watts. Watts suffered a reported “stinger” in the preseason finale, but is evidently more serious.