Behind the Steel Curtain
Congratulations, Steelers fans and BTSC readers, we’ve made it through the long summer between the NFL Draft and the return of actual football. I know that this website is primarily focused on the Steelers and the NFL, but it’s been a ton of fun reviewing college quarterbacks with you these past few months.
Below, you’ll find the winner from our Final Round of Five fan vote, but first, let’s set the table for the weekend ahead of us.
Week 1 of the NFL season is still a week away, but college football has already begun. After a handful of games were played last weekend, the season will kick off in earnest this week. All 15 of the quarterbacks featured in this series will see their first action of 2025.
Better still, three of our finalists will undertake marquee matchups against ranked opponents. That includes the highlight of the week: Garrett Nussmeier and Cade Klubnik squaring off head-to-head. And of course, Arch Manning is facing his first real challenge as Texas’ QB1 right out of the gate.
The race was tight from start to finish. After collecting a cumulative 802 votes for the entire first round, y’all nearly halved that with 304 votes in our Final Round of Five. Four of the five finalists led the vote at some point during the polling process, demonstrating that QB1 is still very much up for grabs roughly eight months from the 2026 NFL Draft.
But in the end, much like Highlander, there can be only one.
As a reminder, we used a ranked choice voting system to determine our winner. Voters were asked to tell us which quarterback they’d most like to see the Steelers draft by ranking our five finalists. First-place votes were awarded five points, second-place votes four points, and so on. This was done in an effort to form a...
