As we gain traction in heading toward the annual NFL Draft later this month, it’s a known formality that the draft itself isn’t an exact science. If it were, teams wouldn’t heavily invest the amount of resources they do into scouting and all that encompasses it, and names such as Ryan Leaf, JaMarcus Russell and Tony Mandarich wouldn’t all be labeled “busts.” Earlier this afternoon, NFL.com writer Adam Rank decided to take a crack at a 2012 “re-draft” which featured notorious draft misfires like RB Trent Richardson, QB Brandon Weeden and WR Justin Blackmon.
To take a trip down memory lane for Pittsburgh, that’s the draft in which GM Kevin Colbert, Mike Tomlin and company caught the draft’s top guard prospect, David DeCastro, in a freefall and nabbed him with the 24th overall pick.