Steelers Draft Options, Profane Fans, Learning from Seattle

The Steelers offseason started with some surprises and certainly doesn’t look to be a boring one in the next few months. While the Steelers prepare for free agency and coaching moves, we’ll be busy looking around for mentions of your Black & Gold so we’ve got you covered. Here’s your Steelers Morning Huddle for Friday, Jan. 30^th.

Former basketball star could be good fit for Steelers

Hopefully, the Steelers do what they should have done last year and grab a defensive back earlier than the fifth friggin round of the draft. ESPN’s Scott Brown suggests that the team look towards Ben Roethlisberger’s alma mater for a corner to upgrade the Steelers secondary.

Quinten Rollins, a 6’, 203lb corner from the University of Miami (Ohio) started four seasons as a point guard for the Red Hawks but still had one year of eligibility left so he switched to football. As a cornerback he intercepted seven passes and earned Mid-American Conference Defensive Player of the Year honors. ESPN NFL analyst Matt Williamson thinks that Rollins could be versatile enough to play corner or safety.

Potty Mouths

Apparently Pittsburgh Steelers fans are the most profane in the league. Pittsburgh’s KDKA reports a study from Proofpoint Nexgate recorded the content posted to Facebook pages of 12 NFL playoff teams through the first three weeks of January. They discovered that Steelers fans posted the most profane and inappropriate content out of the playoff teams. The Carolina Panthers fans were the most polite, posting the least about of profane content.

I wonder what it would have looked like if there was Facebook back when the Steelers lost Super Bowl XXX. Oh, that reminds me, F you Neil O’Donnell!

Steelers can learn from Seattle

If Seattle wins back-to-back Super Bowls it will largely be because of their defense. Because sports are always prone to hyperbole, people will start to want to rank them with the best defenses of all time. Naturally, the Steelers “Steel Curtain” defense of the 70s gets brought up because they were the best. But, as the PPG’s Ed Bouchette points out, today’s Steelers could learn a thing or two from Seattle’s defense.

We all know the Steelers wasted too many seasons hanging on to old players instead of adding younger guys to keep the defense dominant but the Steelers started shifting back to the youth movement last offseason with the drafting of Ryan Shazier with their first round pick. Youth and speed is what Seattle’s defense is based on and the Steelers should be taking notes to keep building their defense around the same principles.

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