If you’re a big-time Steelers fan, and also a bigger-time NFL Draft fan, you probably still bristle when reminded of the time head coach Mike Tomlin, in his very first attempt to dilute the potency of Bill Cowher’s players, selected punter Daniel Sepulveda out of Baylor in the fourth round of the 2007 NFL Draft.
I believe it’s still referred to as “The Incident” in many circles (at least on Steelers’ message boards and Facebook pages dedicated to fuming over that infamous draft choice).
I thought Tomlin was the only Steelers coach naive enough to select a punter with such a premium draft choice (at least in the modern era—I believe the organization used 38 number-one picks on punters before 1970), but I was wrong.