Steelers/NFL
Steelers go WR, OLB on Day-2
The Pittsburgh Steelers selected Notre Dame wide receiver Chase Claypool (6-4, 238) with the 49th overall pick and capped off the night in going outside linebacker in the third round, selecting Charlotte’s Alex Highsmith.
Claypool was the 11th wide receiver drafted and while no one had Claypool linked to Pittsburgh, the player himself didn’t think he was on Pittsburgh’s radar.
“Pittsburgh would have been my last guess,” said Claypool in a conference call with reporters.
In an extremely deep wide receiver group, Claypool despite Calvin Johnson type measurables, was a player in the teens on many draft insider boards.
Mel Kiper had Claypool ranked as his 11th best receiver in his draft rankings and Claypool was on nobody’s board as a sure-fire second round type talent.
At Notre Dame in 2019, Claypool caught 66 passes for 1,037 yards and 13 touchdowns. The knock on Claypool is that while he has a great speed from a forty time standpoint, he doesn’t play fast and there’s been concerns about his separation ability against big boys at the NFL level who can match the size/strength, which will be different ball game than at the college level.
Yet, there’s a lot of tools that drew the Steelers to him.
“He’s one of those rare types [hide] who has the combination of size and speed,” offensive coordinator Randy Fichtner said. “He wins an awful lot of one-on-one’s.”
As one Steelers source said to me last night — “This guy is a straight up football player.”
Claypool can make things happen without having the ball in his hands. He can block, play special teams and that’s what the Steelers really like about him, aside from the obvious physical traits that you can’t teach.
What also played out with the selection of Claypool was the Steelers adding a different type of receiver to their current core group. This is a group that needs more size and physicality in the future. How much Claypool plays in 2020 remains to be seen, especially with the current situation, but getting a bigger bodied receiver was more of a priority than adding a 5-9, 5-10 receiver to grow with the likes of Diontae Johnson and James Washington, especially if fears are accurate that Juju Smith-Schuster may be elsewhere after this season.
“In the case of a wide receiver, we were excited that that player [Chase Claypool] was available to us,” said Kevin Colbert. “That player, not that position…. Chase Claypool the player was available to us. He’s big, he’s fast, he’s strong, he’s physical,” added Colbert. “He can make the contested catch. When a player like that was available, it was easy.”[/hide]
Hey Ron Klatt Mr genius.
Corona virus most hit areas in Canada Montreal North Toronto Detroit New York Brooklyn, queens
What do all these places have in common. Minority people
Please tell me this is still not man made
Welfare people that can’t travel to China yet have the most cases in their areas
I hope you realize that every time you post, you remind everyone that you have the mental capacity of an autistic 12-year-old.
What those places have in common is they are all densely populated. Sam(e), have you ever left your mom’s basement ?
Populated with Free loaders
Like your mom’s basement.
Mental capacity of a 12 year are the people that think this virus was not man made and was designed to reset things
You are probably one of those morons that still thinks 9/11 really was real and wasnt an inside job.
Now go fly a kite you moron and make sure you take Tool and Stan with you
Hahahahaha, imagine volunteering to show strangers you’re this fucken retarded lol.
Yes Sam, it was man made and released on the public so everyone could get sick hahahahaha fucken dumbshit
Heyyy assholee. Didnt I tell you we are entering in the AI era 2020. Once AI takes over which it will you don’t need too many people in this world. Only rich will survive middle class will become poor. And the recent free loaders that you voted to come to Canada will die along with the old people Becsause they won’t adjust to the new world and plus they are extra expense on the government.
You are a Sheep. Stick to working in a bank you brainwashed liberal
Awe look… racist Sam being racist again. Per capita we established my province had a higher minority population. 60% of PQ population less than a 5th of the cases… racist sam is stupid lol
One more thing… Detroit, and New York… are not in Canada. Brooklyn? This is a borough in New York you fucken retard
I was pointing out the areas that are hit the most. Happens to be poor areas when those welfare people can’t even travel to China to catch it in the first place. Does in it tell you this is orchestrated to target poor and old people
Your just stupid but I don’t blame you its just a democRat/liberal thing I guess
The left doesn’t want the economy to open back up and succeed. It’s quite obvious
Hey sammich… Dino Bravo vs Steiner… on just a regular day?
Steiner couldn’t beat Marco Scandella on his worst day
“I hope for a recession to get rid of Trump. Sorry if that hurts people” -Bill Maher
Hope the recession gets rid of all the democRATS like the shitt stain they are to this world
In fairness Bill Maher is a complete fucken idiot. Even the ideological positions he claims want fuck all to do with him. Dudes trash… another idiots smart man like Joe Rogan or Jordan Peterson lol
Jordan Peterson is amazing. Go follow your Ben Shapiro you arrogant fuckk
Haha, almost a predictable reply from you sam…except the Shapiro remark. I mean you have so much in common it’s quite fascinating you’d shitt on him here. I understand why you like lobster boy tho, no clean your room you slave
What’s wrong with Joe Rogan? I view him more for entertainment than intellect, but he’s at least rational and has common sense. You should listen to the clip of him and that clown adam conover.
He gets carried away with new news but settles the more he learns. It’s the knee jerk reaction that feeds his fan base and while he seems rational enough to figure it out the sams of the world tend to hold on to his initial reaction even if Joe publicly noted he was wrong.
China needs to be punished by the United States and the rest of the world. Those wet markets must all be totally shut down and terminated or this will happen again.
Trump needs to do something right…attack china with sanctions…and i never talk politics on here but twice before but I’m tired of being inside. LOL
How is ZeroTool and the rest of the sheeps doing with this so called fake pandemic
Wait… are you saying it’s fake or? Saying others are calling it fake… you tend to hangout in the group of stupid fux that think it’s fake… but your English is so bad I’m not sure which side of the fence your ma is letting you play on today
Is the virus real yes. Is it man made yes Is it pandemic level no They used this virus as excuse to reset economy and change our ways of living Welcome to the AI era that will take over more and more humans jobs and have giants grow Essentials must be open why is Wal-Mart full store open when 90% of their junk comes from China. Yet other small business can’t be open. Government suppose to be power and get their site apparently crashes when people try to apply for EI. Or when they call Canada service lines are closed… Read more »
Coincidence that 1300 CEO resigned or changed their position or jobs since November They all knew to not get heat Bank of Canada poloz happens to retire on June 2nd He cant postpone till December I’ll tell you why sheep. It’s because recession will come after that just like I said in 2017 2020 we will his a reset a recession and it’s coming and once again I will be right I used to work for a company and they said it What was their vision and it’s all getting lined up now AI era is coming IOT So they… Read more »
Lol 1300? Wow… that’s far more than what we have actually seen. Changed jobs… ok so how is that proof of anything? How does a person stepping down from the CEO and taking on a lessor yet executive position within the same company prove anything? At all?
Lol more than half of all cases in PQ…. now Sam will say something racist ignoring the Asian population prevalent in B.C. which destroys his BS. More than 50% of all cases in his province! Mine tests more than yours… has 1/5 the cases and about 60% of the population. Numbers don’t add up, means you people are fucken stupid and you’re clearly a spokesperson for the entire province
Alberta is one of the youngest province
Quebec is aging province and more population then your farm land.
Now does it make sense why Quebec number is higher
Go milk your cow while you are at it kill it since beef prices will come up 4 to 6%
I would leave them the same for everywhere but PQ because you are stupid racists
The reason this province is younger? Too many smarter queens realizing that province sucks because of the old school racist pieces of shit so they leave, this includes the immigrants who are tired of living in the Canadian epicentre of the klu Klux Klan so they come here.
Last I checked Alberta is a conservative province with the few exceptions of morons like you that votes for Trudeau so he can fill up Toronto and Montreal with free loaders so he can get easy votes
Now go wash your beta male’s socks
It is true… about 60% of the voters are blue and they voted for a guy whose fucken destroyed this province in a manner we haven’t seen in this country ever!!! Not sure what that has to do with anything anyone is talking about but seeing as you brought it up we can talk about how Cons have broken and flirted with bankrupting this province.
On a happy note we are probably no longer a have province so I know my taxes will no longer go to your fucken loser province so your lazy ass can fucken benefit from us
I don’t benefit shitt *******. Quebec people pay more taxes then your clown *** in order to feed the free loaders that leach off from the system thanks to you and the rest of the brain deads that voted for that clown we have federal and provincial tax. Reason Quebec got more money is because they bribe Quebec to not separate and to pay off those border walkers Trust me Quebec per capita doesn’t get as much Quebec has his own richness we have worlds best Lithuanian. And we also have electricity and we provide to New York and Massachusetts.… Read more »
Pandemic by definition is multiple outbreaks in multiple different nations… it’s absolutely a pandemic. Your province is hit so hard too…ffs sammich. By all means tho, pretend it’s not a big issue. I encourage you to hang out with as many people as possible.
5G? We talked about this, not powerful enough to go beyond warm, waves ain’t small enough to interact on an atomic level to knock out electrons. A dozen articles in the lancet on biological manufacturing proves it’s natural. You’re a fucken moron Sam.
Nice job by the Malkin family.
Not happening….It’s so unfortunate we all want hockey back ! We may not even start next year on time.
Fingers crossed a new nhl season can start in October. The governor of California and the mayor of Los Angeles (where I live) have said here will be no sports crowds, or concerts, or large crowds until at least 2021…. uuuggghhhhhh
Sounds like the nhl starting back up in July in gaining more traction. It’d be a crime to waste a prime year of 87 and 71, especially considering they have a team that can compete for a cup. Offensively, they are as deep as anyone and I’ll take sid, geno, guentzel and Zucker over the top 4 of any other forward group in the nhl. They have questions on defense, but on paper they are, at minimum, very comparable to the 16 and 17 rosters. Goaltending can be viewed as a question as well, but that’s everyone in the nhl… Read more »
I would like to see it happen but if this pandemic does not clear up completely and one player tests positive it’s all over. Sports teams are to on top of each other and it will spread like a wild fire, just like when one player gets the flu then half the team does. Plus they want to keep 6 teams or so in the same hotel. That means maids, cooks, laundry service, etc…. As of this moment, I think it is a waste of money and a health risk. See what happens in a month or so.
They said they won’t let a couple cases stop them. If every case forced a stoppage, they won’t play for years
Wait and see… that is all that can be done. I am not holding my breath for this season. I would just like to be able to go into a deli without a mask on and actually be able to sit down.
Should be happening already. Those death counts are insanely inflated. Pennsylvania just had to decrease their death count by hundreds for reporting covid deaths by patients that weren’t even tested. Hospitals are getting $13000 for any reported covid case and 39000 if they need a ventilator, so they are literally making money by reporting as many as possible. They are also reporting anyone who dies that has it, regardless of whether or not they died FROM it. Then you have the fact that the average age of death in Italy is 80.5. It’s not quite that high here, but close.… Read more »
As a frame of reference, Amazon, Walmart, Kroger, Target and Costco employ over 3.3 million employees. There’s been what, a couple dozen employees that have been reported as having it?
tbj233 do a deep dive on the age of the average death in PA to china flu. 84.5 was last I seen. Chances are most of them had major issues attacked by china flu just moved things along. My biggest worry is this going to be every damn flu season from now on.
True many victims are older with preexisting conditions but many aren’t. That bus driver when some stupid ass coughed on him twice without a mask dies two weeks later. this is still nothing to joke around with. Hopefully Trump and the rest of the world will put the clamps on hard and punish China. The fucking wet markets where this all started and they sell all those diseased animals (bat, dogs, goats) for the stupid Chinese people to eat. They also lied about the deaths tolls. Somehow Wuhan where this shit all started the death just stopped at 3,850 when… Read more »
That’s an isolated case. I’m sure there are plenty more like it, but it’s far from the norm and it’s detrimental to everyone if you treat it as such.
There are many cases like that Tbj!! It’s many just aren’t reported or made so public. This one family today a lady lost her 32 year old husband and both her kids are so young they don’t understand. Another family three members passed and the last is in intensive care fighting for her life (doctors haven’t told her about her family) for fear of losing her too. Its real and these dumb as protestors are not only going to get it at some point hey are in endangering others. People need to wake up, get their heads out of their… Read more »
I didn’t check PA in particular, but I’d believe it. I’m not saying that it’s not a serious illness by any means, but everyone is treating it like the plague. You can’t halt society for a fraction of a percent.
Overall crappy draft except fr the two players from Maryland……We passed on Dolphins and Moss to all American running backs…