Notes from Voluntary Practice

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(05-10-2025, 12:09 PM)bfine32 Wrote: I don't know what it is with Pit and Malcontent WRs. Recent ones who come to mind are;

Antonio Brown
Claypool
Dionte Johnson
Pickens.

I do give them credit for parting ways with them. 

It's how they've always gotten WRs who played above their draft status. They seem to get a couple years out of them before dumping them onto another team. Middling risk, high reward. Let them throw like two decades of 1st round picks largely at only OL and Defense.

They haven't picked a WR higher than 49th overall since they used a 1st round pick on Santonio Holmes in 2006.... but they've still drafted 6 different 1k WRs since then. 

I think it might be working out less and less for them though. Turns out that it's much harder to pull off successfully when you don't have a possibly HoF QB throwing them the ball as well as guys like Troy Polamalu to stabilize the locker room. Also a lack of real success (8 year playoff win drought) makes locker room problems magnified.