Ray Fittipaldo
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Safeties don't typically go in the first round, Joe, but Caleb Downs, Dylan Thienemann, and McNeil Warren all right now are projected to
to go in the first round.
We'll see if it happens here in a couple weeks.
Yeah, didn't we just get over a season where they didn't have enough balls to go around that tight end room?
And, you know, they were playing John U. Smith and
They weren't getting anything out of him.
They weren't getting anything out of Pat Fryermuth.
I would like to see a coaching staff like McCarthy's just work with Fryermuth.
And listen, if it doesn't work with McCarthy, then, hey, you can move on from Fryermuth.
It wasn't a fit here, whatever.
But at least give him the opportunity with the new coaching staff to see what he can really do in a passing offense.
So that would be my โ
preferred scenario.
I know he's the top tight end in the draft, but I think they have many, many other needs they could address, receiver, guard, safety, among them.
I don't know that they're going to trade up at all, Joe, because they're, you know, trading up, you're typically going up for like a like a left tackle like they did with Broderick Jones, like a special player, you know, an edge rusher or somebody like that.
And this receiver draft is so deep.
I don't know that you would have to do that.
You can get a receiver in the second round, third round, who could be very, very good as well.
So maybe there is one guy who is super high on their board that they would do that for, but I'm just telling you typically receiver is not a position that teams move up for, and especially so in a year like this where there could be like 15, even 18 receivers drafted in the top 100 picks of this draft.
I don't think it is in a Steeler uniform, but when you get invited to the draft, they usually do a pretty good job of vetting that with personnel people and saying, yeah, this guy's going to be drafted in the first round.