Steelers Trade With Panthers in NFL Draft
PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh Steelers are moving back to the end of the third round of the NFL Draft, trading with the Carolina Panthers at pick 80 to acquire a new third-rounder and a fourth-round pick.
The Steelers were set to make their fourth pick in the NFL Draft, but are now moving back to pick 93 that Carolina owned. They’ll also add picks 93 and 132.
The Steelers made their second trade of the draft, the first coming in the first round when they sent pick 120 and 17 to the New England Patriots to move up to pick 14. They selected Georgia offensive tackle Broderick Jones.
Pittsburgh now has made the selections of Jones, Penn State cornerback Joey Porter Jr. and Wisconsin defensive tackle Keeanu Benton. They’ll move forward with picks 93, 132, 241 and 251 remaining in rounds three through seven.
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The Pittsburgh Steelers having trouble staying afloat in the competitive AFC North. The Steelers are 7-6, tied with Cincinnati at the bottom of the division. As a result, longtime QB Ben Roethlisberger is not happy about Pittsburgh’s state of mind after losing 21-18 to a struggling New England Patriots team.
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After the Patriots game, Roethlisberger expressed his frustrations in an episode of his podcast:
“Maybe the tradition of the Pittsburgh Steelers is done…Footbahlin with Ben Roethlisberger,” the veteran QB boldly claimed, per ESPN.
Roethlisberger continued to criticize head coach Mike Tomlin, “You can’t afford in the second half of games to burn silly timeouts and not have them late in the game. To me, that’s bad coaching.”
Still, Big Ben’s criticisms did not end there. He feels like the Steelers are missing the mental toughness that past successful Pittsburgh teams possessed.
“Who is grabbing someone by the face mask and saying, ‘That’s not what we do.’ Is this happening? Yes, you have guys on defense doing it, but you need guys on other sides of the ball doing it,” Roethlisberger explained.
The 41-yard-old has a point on Pittsburgh’s offense. The Steelers’ defense has kept the team in games, but the offense has not been able to execute to the best of its ability. Ben Roethlisberger is doing what he can, but if things do not change soon, the veteran QB could leave his black and gold colors behind.
