Steelers Wire
On Sunday, Philadelphia Eagles fans got to see their team win the Super Bowl and quarterback Jalen Hurts be named Super Bowl MVP. You know who else got to see Hurts win MVP? All the Pittsburgh Steelers fans who screamed for Pittsburgh to draft Hurts in the 2020 NFL draft.
The situation was perfect. After trading away their first-round pick the year before to get safety Minkah Fitzpatrick, they were on the clock in the second and Hurts was right there. Starting quarterback Ben Roethlisberger was coming off an awful injury that forced him to miss almost the entire 2019 season and his future was absolutely uncertain.
So there was no way the Steelers could screw this up right? Wrong. General Manager Kevin Colbert and head coach Mike Tomlin looked at the team’s questionable quarterback depth chart and decided instead to draft wide receiver Chase Claypool. Four picks later the Eagles selected Hurts and the rest is history.
To watch how the Steelers quarterbacks played in 2019, knowing Roethlisberger’s injury situation and age, and still thinking Claypool was the answer is mind-numbing and a perfect illustration of just how tone-deaf they were and still are to the Steelers issues.
