Back to exploring some of our pre-draft Pittsburgh Steelers’ studies. Two years ago, we viewed the Steelers’ small school selections on a macro-level compared to the rest of the league and found out Pittsburgh has one of the lowest rates of drafting players from the FCS level.
Today, we’re going to tweak that focus a bit. We’re going to look at the Steelers alone and expand our definition of “small school” to anyone not in the Power 5. We know overall, they prefer to take players in the Power 5, especially early, but let’s put some exact numbers on it.