Brian Batko

free agency.

But when you're talking about your first round draft pick, that's normally a player that you're not picking him just as a stopgap option or an immediate starter anywhere.

You've got to pick that at a spot where you feel like you need to replenish the depth for a long time to come.

So I'd actually be less surprised if they go D-line.

Again, I know that Derek Harmon was the guy last year, and I know that Y.A.

Black

He's in the mix as well, and he's going into his second season.

But I think these last couple Super Bowls, the formula that we saw from the Seahawks and the Eagles a year ago, you can't have enough of those impact players up front, whether it's on the edge or not.

in the interior and we know the Steelers have all their bases covered at edge defender but I just feel like if you can come at teams in waves with those defensive tackles who penetrate collapse the pocket pressure allow you to get pressure with just rushing four that is not a bad recipe to follow and we know they still need to sort of keep building behind Cam Hayward so I'd

I'd be a little surprised at this juncture if it's an O-lineman, but slightly less surprised if they keep building the trenches on the D-line limits.

And no one on that Seahawks defense had more than seven sacks in the regular season.

They had three guys were tied and only one of those was an edge rusher.

Uchenna and Wosu who had the touchdown against the Patriots.

The other two were Byron Murphy and Leonard Williams who are more interior rushers.

So I think that tells you a couple of things.

One, you know, to use a Mike Tomlin ism, the strength of the pack was the pack.

It wasn't one guy who had all sort of revolved around whether, you know, that's a,

an edge guy or an interior guy, but it also tells you, yeah, I mean, they got an advantageous positions by stopping the run first and foremost.

And then you, you heat up the opposing team on third down or whatever it is.

And they're behind the chains and boom, now they're off track and they can't extend a drive and you're getting your defense off the field.