Beanie Bishop, CB, West Virginia
Daijun Edwards, RB, Georgia
John Rhys Plumlee, QB, Central Florida
Julius Welschof, linebacker, Charlotte
Jacoby Windmon, linebacker, Michigan State
Edwards looks to be a far better player than Connor Heyward. Will he be given a fair chance ??
Plumlee has some juice Allen doesn’t have at 3rd QB but isn’t really an NFL QB by most standards
Re: Steelers UDFA’s signings
Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2024 9:05 pm
by franco32
I have no clue why you would give your highest signing bonus ever to a QB who can't be a QB in the NFL. Do they want to create some sort of HB/RB role for him?
Re: Steelers UDFA’s signings
Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2024 9:27 pm
by Steelersfan
Ferris State Shon Stephens. Porter JRs cousin gets a rookie mini camp invite with the Steelers. Also with the Eagles. The Eagles 1st two picks were CBs though. I'd imagine if the Steelers wanted him on the 90 man roster, they could get him.
I have no clue why you would give your highest signing bonus ever to a QB who can't be a QB in the NFL. Do they want to create some sort of HB/RB role for him?
I have no clue why you would give your highest signing bonus ever to a QB who can't be a QB in the NFL. Do they want to create some sort of HB/RB role for him?
From what I read, only 3 spots left on the 90 man roster. No use adding more bodies just to be cut when a better player becomes available or will be added.
Say resigning Patrick Peterson or somebody maybe like Tyler Boyd, Justin Simmons, etc. Good chance players like Boyd, OBJ etc., asking price is dropping bigtime. Especially WRs; teams signed like 50 rookie WRs in the draft. And right now, to their teams, fan bases & the media, they're all pro bowlers & future hall of famers., right? No need to sign a C2 or more player when a team just signed 50 future superstars on rookie deals.
Hopefully Steelers save those last 3 spots for bargain hunting.
they get $5000 signing bonuses each. How many do you want at that point?
At least fill out the roster for rookie camp. Take advantage of the chance to look at more players in a practice situation in your facility.
yeah, UDFA used to be a strong pipeline for us. Now it seems like the FO has no interest; last year’s UDFA class seemed almost intentionally bad.
This year is better, but it still has a whiff of throwaway, with a RB/WR convert project, a long shot C, a STs EDGEy LB, and a decent RB with odds stacked against him barring a couple of injuries. But at least Beanie looks like an old school get at NCB who I fully expect to win the starting job.
I have no clue why you would give your highest signing bonus ever to a QB who can't be a QB in the NFL. Do they want to create some sort of HB/RB role for him?
Fwiw, they gave the previous "highest ever" bonus to that RB that didn't make the team last year, so it really doesn't matter that much in the big picture, I don't think.
I have no clue why you would give your highest signing bonus ever to a QB who can't be a QB in the NFL. Do they want to create some sort of HB/RB role for him?
I have no clue why you would give your highest signing bonus ever to a QB who can't be a QB in the NFL. Do they want to create some sort of HB/RB role for him?
Traysom Hill role perhaps ??
Have you heard of this Justin Fields fellow?
Could he make the transition to WR? Future Hines/Randel El?
Could he make the transition to WR? Future Hines/Randel El?
No.
Re: Steelers UDFA’s signings
Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2024 3:00 am
by Steelafan77
Another Ferris State University football alum has received his opportunity to compete in the National Football League (NFL) as standout receiver Xavier Wade (Holland/West Ottawa) has accepted a rookie mini camp invite from the NFL's Pittsburgh Steelers.
Daijun Edwards looks like a MUCH better RB than C Heyward to me
I would send Heyward to the practice squad
But I bet Edwards has a GREAT preseason/camp and the Steelers cut him attempt to put him on the PS and he gets claimed and becomes a decent NFL rotational RB
And Warren and Harris are half a step slow in the fourth and at the end of the season
Daijun Edwards looks like a MUCH better RB than C Heyward to me
I would send Heyward to the practice squad
But I bet Edwards has a GREAT preseason/camp and the Steelers cut him attempt to put him on the PS and he gets claimed and becomes a decent NFL rotational RB
And Warren and Harris are half a step slow in the fourth and at the end of the season
It's not Heyward vs Patterson. Patterson is a RB, Heyward is a TE/HBack. Maybe it's Coletto or Heyward, but could be both make it.
Another Ferris State University football alum has received his opportunity to compete in the National Football League (NFL) as standout receiver Xavier Wade (Holland/West Ottawa) has accepted a rookie mini camp invite from the NFL's Pittsburgh Steelers.
I noticed him when looking at a couple of Ferris State players last year and considered him for Draft-A-Team this year.
The past couple of years Ferris State was the best team in the best conference of D2. Wade was their best receiver, with a 44+% dominator rating, meaning he was the receiver the other team tried to stop but couldn't.
He was their "athletic, big receiver" at that level but will have to adjust to being a normal-sized and normal athlete WR in the NFL. He was a good player at D2 and came up big in the championship run, so it's possible he shows something.
Daijun Edwards looks like a MUCH better RB than C Heyward to me
I would send Heyward to the practice squad
But I bet Edwards has a GREAT preseason/camp and the Steelers cut him attempt to put him on the PS and he gets claimed and becomes a decent NFL rotational RB
And Warren and Harris are half a step slow in the fourth and at the end of the season
It's not Heyward vs Patterson. Patterson is a RB, Heyward is a TE/HBack. Maybe it's Coletto or Heyward, but could be both make it.
I think Patterson is pretty close to a lock
C Heyward Colletto…….Just going off highlights I’d rather have Edwards on the roster than either one of those two……by a lot
Re: Steelers UDFA’s signings
Posted: Wed May 01, 2024 2:17 am
by bradshaw2ben
Arthur Smith led the universe last year in 22 personnel. They will either have a FB or a TE/HBack that looks exactly like a FB.
Re: Steelers UDFA’s signings
Posted: Wed May 01, 2024 2:22 am
by bradshaw2ben
Steelers signed a 6th UDFA (there are also tryout players): CB Derion McKenzie, CB, Merrimack. Details of he is measurables in the pinned thread about metrics, but the skinny is: he's slow and measured a couple of inches shorter than listed. STs/Safety kind of prospect.
