The Pittsburgh Steelers found a sleeper in the seventh round of the 2012 NFL Draft when they took OT Kelvin Beachum out of SMU. Beachum wound up starting 39 games for the Steelers between 2012-2015, and in a recent interview with The Athletic’s Jayna Bardahl, Beachum talked about waiting until the seventh round and said that the wait is one thing that motivated him.
“That’s what drove me,” Beachum told Bardahl. “I’ve been pissed off and patient for a long time.”
There was doubt that Beachum could stick at tackle coming out of college, as he measured in at 6027 and 303 pounds.