The Steelers, like other QB-needy teams, shocked the NFL world when they passed on selecting Shedeur Sanders not once, not twice — but on three separate occasions. According to one insider, there was a surprising reason why Sanders isn’t calling the Steel City home.
Jeremy Fowler, a prominent and long-time ESPN insider, explained that a disagreement within Pittsburgh’s draft war room is ultimately why the Steelers chose to pass on drafting Sanders:
“The Steelers were comfortable with Shedeur Sanders as a distributing point guard type, which makes it a mild surprise they didn't take him with their fourth-round pick.