"I love the Moncrief move."
Be warned that every blessed syllable following this paragraph will come from the same keyboard that, only a year ago, typed what's above.
Talk about dropping the ball.
But you know, I'll stand by the scope of that column from March 14, 2019, the day the Steelers signed Donte Moncrief out of free agency, partly out of lingering disbelief for how quickly he disintegrated in Pittsburgh, partly because all the rest of it was ... well, dead-on.
Because within that, I also praised management for signing Steven Nelson, backed picking up the fifth-year option on Bud Dupree, expressed hope they'd find a way to draft Devin Bush and, while in all-out Nostradamus mode, laughed off the Browns' spending spree by calling them 'Paper Champions of the North.' Plus a bonus jab at Antonio Brown's exit in referring to the 'circus leaving town.'
Hey, four out of five.
I bring this up today since, in precisely two weeks, the NFL Draft will open the evening of April 24 with its second round and, within that, the 49th overall pick will belong to the local franchise. And while we've all got our own mocks and outlooks on who they will/should select, the one biggest positive to the process -- from this perspective, anyway -- is that there'll be no pressure to pick toward any position beyond a running back to support James Conner.
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