Steelers Draft Moves: Derrick Harmon's First Round Impact

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00:00What the Steelers did, instead of Sanders, going with that monster Harmon,

00:05who I think is an incredible replacement for Cam Hayward in the future

00:09at the defensive tackle spot with his size and abilities,

00:13he's a savage mother-foreller.

00:15I love that pick.

00:17My son hated it.

00:18All the Steeler fans I know that I know hated it.

00:22They all wanted a quarterback and all the rest.

00:24But I actually like the move.

00:26I want to get your reaction to the first round.

00:29You know what?

00:30It's funny you bring up Derek Harmon because he was one of my favorite players

00:33coming into this draft season.

00:35Now, one of the players I really loved coming in was Mason Graham.

00:39And as a Chicago Bears fan, I was kind of hoping he would fall.

00:42I mean, it was unrealistic unless three quarterbacks went into the top 10

00:45or some craziness happened.

00:47But unfortunately, Mason Graham gets snapped up before the Bears get an opportunity.

00:51But then I turned my attention to Derek Harmon.

00:53I said, you know what?

00:54If he somehow finds a way to fall into the second round,

00:57but then you see teams like the Steelers.

00:59I know the Ravens were probably in on him as well.

01:02And these are why these teams are good year after year.

01:06They don't fall for narratives or any sort of, you know, nonsense.

01:10They go out there and draft great football players.

01:12And when I saw Derek Harmon playing for the Ducks,

01:16like that was a guy who looks like he should be playing in the AFC North.

01:20Like you could just see him and be like, that's an AFC North player.

01:23And so for me, I can't believe it.

01:25And I guess I can believe it because fans are conditioned to hate every single pick.

01:29You can go back to watching Josh Allen being drafted by the Bills

01:33and the fans losing their S.

01:35But I think Derek Harmon was one of the best picks in the first round.

01:38And I think, you know, four years from now,

01:40when Derek Harmon's out there dominating a potential defensive player of the year

01:45candidate down the road, I think you're going to love that pick.

01:47I, you know, my entire life, I've gone to eight Steelers Super Bowls.

01:53And I remember when I was a kid, they taught me growing up there that

01:59we're going to win Super Bowls by drafting in the trenches.

02:04And it started with Joe Green and it went on from there.

02:07And I've already expressed this on the show today.

02:09I think they're going back to their roots with that move.

02:12I guess the question today, selfishly, because I'm a pig, is that do you think

02:17they trade Pickens to get a second round pick because they don't have one?

02:23Or do you keep him based on his talent and put him with Metcalf and see where

02:28the chips fly the rest of the draft in three and then on Saturday, four through seven?

02:34What would you do?

02:35Because there's all this talk of them trading him.

02:38I think he's super talented.

02:39They don't like him because he's cocky and he's kind of, I guess, allegedly problematic.

02:46Are you serious that Tomlin can't control this brother?

02:50Yeah.

02:51I mean, like we see now when we look back in hindsight and understand that Antonio Brown

02:56and Le'Veon Bell were on that Steelers team for quite some time and there were no issues.

03:01Mike Tomlin knows how to manage that.

03:04Now, if they find that George Pickens is expendable, because when you look at the history

03:08of the Pittsburgh Steelers drafting wide receivers, if there is one team in this draft to find

03:14a guy who can replace George Pickens, and one name to watch out for, and I think, again,

03:20this is another player who I love, and I watch Luther Burden.

03:23I was watching Membo tape earlier this offseason, and then I was like, good Lord, this Luther Burden

03:30is like a great player.

03:32Kind of reminds me a little bit like this.

03:34Oh, God.

03:35He's so good, and I think there's like some Debo in there.

03:38I think there's some Stephon Diggs in there.

03:40And if you were able to replace him, George Pickens with Luther Burden, and then get some

03:45additional picks, I think that that would be a match made in heaven.

03:49However, I don't think a lot of teams are going to be giving up second round picks for

03:53George Pickens.

03:54And I know that if he calls the Bears, like Ryan Poles would hang up immediately, like,

03:58nope, you did this before.

03:59We're not doing this again.

04:01They might be stuck with George Pickens, but if they can somehow find a way, and I know

04:06that Luther Burden is, like, we never know.

04:08When you go into the second and third round, you don't know, because evaluations are completely

04:13different.

04:13We see this in the first night of the draft, but the second and third round is where it

04:16really starts to come together.

04:17If they can somehow manage to find somebody like Luther Burden, I think that that's the way they

04:22want to go, and then you're probably going to have to give away George Pickens at some

04:25point, or maybe just roll with all of them.

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