For the first time in over 50 years, the Pittsburgh Steelers are going into a draft during which they do not have a first-round draft pick. In the decade or so prior to the team hiring Chuck Noll, they had made it a habit of dealing their draft picks, particularly their top pick, in exchange for high-profile stars who were on the downside of their career.
Noll and Dan Rooney quickly put a stop to that, and in just a few short years built a championship team through their draft resources, hitting home runs in the first round on players like Joe Greene, Terry Bradshaw, Lynn Swann, and others.