While it’s certainly not a habit exclusive to them, the Pittsburgh Steelers do seem to manage to acquire players who have some type of connection to them, in one way or another. Their first-round pick, for example, has already spent the past five years inside the UPMC Rooney Sports Complex, and their sixth-round pick has been there plenty of times as well.
Those would be quarterback Kenny Pickett and h-back Connor Heyward, respectively. Pickett, a New Jersey native, played his college ball for the Panthers. While Heyward played for Michigan State, and grew up in Georgia, he has long had Pittsburgh ties through his family, his father, Craig, playing for the Panthers, and his older brother, Cameron, perhaps the most high-profile member of the Steelers right now.