For a second straight offseason, the Pittsburgh Steelers might be completely re-building their entire quarterback room. After parting ways with Kenny Pickett, Mitch Trubisky and Mason Rudolph in exchange for Russell Wilson, Justin Fields and Kyle Allen, Pittsburgh might lose all three quarterbacks and be forced to start over.
Unfortunately, the Steelers aren’t in a great position to utilize the NFL draft to help fill the depth chart if the hope is to get a rookie playmaker. There are only two quarterbacks projected to go in the first round and both Cam Ward and Shedeur Sanders are going to be on the board with the Steelers pick at No. 21. And neither guy is on par with the top prospects last season, meaning no big trade ups to get either guy.
So what the Steelers might do and should do is draft one of the second-tier quarterbacks they think has the highest ceiling and park them behind either Wilson or Fields.
The names to remember are Jalen Milroe, Will Howard, Riley Leonard and Quinn Ewers. These are players in the second and third-round range who have enough potential to take a shot on them but aren’t in Week One starters.
