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Study: What The Pittsburgh Steelers Look For In Drafting Defensive Ends (2023)

This will be the final 2023 installment of our “what they look for” Pittsburgh Steelers’ draft study. We’ll finish things up with the defensive ends (not nose tackles) and see if historical trends can indicate who the team is most likely to target in 2023. As always, I’ll include my paragraph explaining how we’re collecting data differently this year compared to past seasons.

“There’s one other change too. In past years, I focused largely on Combine workout numbers, only using Pro Days for objective testing, things like vertical and broad jump in which two scouts wouldn’t have two different numbers like they could with a 40 time or three-cone.