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Ranking Steelers' five worst first-round picks of last 30 years

The Steelers haven't had too many huge misses in the first round over the past 30 years, but there have been a handful of notable ones.

I ranked my Steelers top 10 first-round draft diamonds yesterday, so today we're going with the five worst draft duds during the same span.

As a refresher, here's a list of all first-round draft picks since 1993 (selection number in parenthesis):

1993: CB Deon Figures (23)
1994: WR Charles Johnson (17)
1995: TE Mark Bruener (27)
1996: OT Jamain Stephens (29)
1997: CB Chad Scott (24)
1998: G Alan Fanca (26)
1999: WR Troy Edwards (13)
2000: WR Plaxico Burress (8)
2001: DT Casey Hampton (19)
2002: G Kendall Simmons (30)
2003: S Troy Polamalu (16)
2004: QB Ben Roethlisberger (11)
2005: TE Heath Miller (30)
2006: WR Santonio Holmes (25)
2007: LB Lawrence Timmons (15)
2008: RB Rashard Mendenhall (23)
2009: DT Ziggy Hood (32)
2010: C Maurkice Pouncey (18)
2011: DT Cameron Heyward (31)
2012: G David DeCastro (24)
2013: LB Jarvis Jones (17)
2014: LB Ryan Shazier (15)
2015: LB Bud Dupree (22)
2016: CB Artie Burns (25)
2017: LB T.