Coming into the draft, many thought the Pittsburgh Steelers might take a quarterback with the 21st overall selection. At the time, Shedeur Sanders was the most likely candidate. That clearly did not happen the first night of the draft.
And Sanders ended up sliding all the way to the fifth round.
Not only did the Steelers pass on him in the first, but also the third and fourth rounds as well. When the Steelers eventually drafted a quarterback, it was Will Howard in the sixth round.
On 93.7 The Fan Thursday, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Ray Fittpaldo was asked who the Steelers would have taken had Sanders and Howard still been on the board in the sixth round.