Steelers: Stealing one player from each AFC North team
By Tommy Jaggi
Baltimore Ravens: OT Ronnie Stanley
Surprised this isn’t Lamar Jackson? That’s completely understandable. I was really leaning toward the 2019 NFL MVP right here, but I have a slightly different plan in mind.
Instead, I elected to go with arguably the best young left tackle in all of football: Ronnie Stanley. The Ravens struck gold when they drafted Stanley in the first round back in 2016. Now the 26-year-old tackle will spend the remainder of his career with the Steelers (not really, but you get the gist).
Stanley was a first-team All-Pro tackle last year and his 89.4 overall grade was just a hair behind New Orleans Saints tackle, Ryan Ramczyk, as the best in the league, according to Pro Football Focus.
A great left tackle is incredibly hard to come by, and the Steelers may have never had one in their storied history as good as Stanley. Lamar Jackson was incredibly difficult to pass on, but Stanley will be Pittsburgh’s blindside protector for nearly the next decade of play.