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Top 5 available Steelers prospects heading into day two of the 2020 NFL Draft

By Tommy Jaggi

MOBILE, AL - JANUARY 25: Linebacker Zack Baun #56 from Wisconsin of the North Team during the 2020 Resse's Senior Bowl at Ladd-Peebles Stadium on January 25, 2020 in Mobile, Alabama. The North Team defeated the South Team 34 to 17. (Photo by Don Juan Moore/Getty Images)
MOBILE, AL - JANUARY 25: Linebacker Zack Baun #56 from Wisconsin of the North Team during the 2020 Resse's Senior Bowl at Ladd-Peebles Stadium on January 25, 2020 in Mobile, Alabama. The North Team defeated the South Team 34 to 17. (Photo by Don Juan Moore/Getty Images) /
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COLLEGE PARK, MD – SEPTEMBER 27: Yetur Gross-Matos #99 of the Penn State Nittany Lions looks on during a college football game against the Maryland Terrapins at Capital One Field at Maryland Stadium on September 27, 2019 in College Park, Maryland. (Photo by Mitchell Layton/Getty Images)
COLLEGE PARK, MD – SEPTEMBER 27: Yetur Gross-Matos #99 of the Penn State Nittany Lions looks on during a college football game against the Maryland Terrapins at Capital One Field at Maryland Stadium on September 27, 2019 in College Park, Maryland. (Photo by Mitchell Layton/Getty Images) /

EDGE Yetur Gross-Matos, Penn State

My overall rank: 18th

This is a player that is a bigger longshot to make it to pick 49 than Zack Baun. Yetur Gross-Matos is a player I fully expected to be drafted in the middle to the back-half of the first round. But as we enter day two of the 2020 NFL Draft, he is still ripe for the picking.

Gross-Matos is still raw and has to clean up his technique as a rusher, but he presents loads of upside at one of the most coveted positions in the league. At 6’5” and 266 pounds with nearly 35” arms, Gross-Matos is bigger and longer than T.J. Watt coming out of Wisconsin in 2017.

Though he didn’t do all of his athletic testing at the NFL Combine, he was projected to test very well and he flashes speed on tape. Gross-Matos has some surprising bend for a player his size, and with the right coaching, he could develop into a star at the next level.

His best season came as a sophomore where he earned 20.0 tackles for a loss and 8.0 sacks. He could be an understudy to Bud Dupree and a full-time starter by his second season.

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