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Why can’t Calijah Kancey be the Steelers first-round pick in the 2023 NFL Draft?

I kick off my 2023 NFL Draft coverage by asking this one simple question:

Why can’t Calijah Kancey be the Steelers' first pick (17th, overall) on the night of April 27, 2023?

I’m not going to lie, the one thing that caught my attention when I sort of paid attention to the NFL Combine was the 40-time turned in by Kancey, who ran a 4.67, which was the fastest time for a 280-plus man recorded at the annual event since 2006 (before Northwestern’s Adetomiwa Adebawore smashed that number an hour later by posting a 4.