When the Steelers start putting together their draft board next week, they will follow the plan they had before Ben Roethlisberger got accused of sexual assault for the second time in the past eight months. Director of football operations Kevin Colbert said Sunday that the Steelers have ruled out taking a quarterback with an early-round pick in next month's draft. "That position appears to be set," Colbert said at the NFL owners meeting. The Steelers' approach at quarterback - they hope to re-sign Charlie Batch to provide depth behind Roethlisberger and promising third-year man Dennis Dixon - is consistent with the stance team president Art Rooney II took last week when he said the Steelers have "a little bit of a luxury of time" and are going to let the investigation of Roethlisberger play out before entertaining contingency plans at quarterback. Source: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
At this stage its way too knee jerk to be planning any long term future without Rothlisberger Dixon has them covered for the short term, drafting a top QB would be too much of a panic move
Exactly. The Steelers will draft need, not 'what if'. Unlike any previous draft that I can remember, is there even one (1) elite QB anyway?
They usually draft one in the later rounds of the draft every year...it will be great this season when they do and the kid is anointed Ben's replacement...:icon_rolleyes:
