In most years, if you’re drafting the seventh tackle off the board, you’re not doing it in the first round—but in most years, that seventh tackle isn’t Troy Fautanu, fortunately for the Pittsburgh Steelers. The stud out of Washington is a player many expected to go earlier, but with so many Tier-1 tackles, teams had their own preferences.
The Los Angeles Chargers took the first tackle off the board with Joe Alt at the fifth spot. The Tennessee Titans followed two spots later with J.C. Latham, the Jets taking Olumuyiwa Fashanu at 11. The New Orleans Saints added Taliese Fuaga at 14, and finally the Cincinnati Bengals drafted Amarius Mims at 18.