Colbert, Kreidler Talk Looking For The Positives In Draft Evaluation

As we head into Day Two of the 2017 NFL Draft, is should go without saying that we begin to move into a territory in which we find players who may not be as complete, or who lack the potential, in comparison to those who go into the first round. That will obviously be more true of the Day Three picks, but all the same, it brought me back to a passage from the pre-draft process video that the Pittsburgh Steelers recently put up on their website.

General Manager Kevin Colbert and College Scouting Coordinator Phil Kreidler were interviewed fairly extensively in the piece, and they both talked about one of the defining principles that guide their evaluation process, which is a pretty simple…