{"id":156639,"date":"2026-04-03T20:52:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T20:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/156639\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T20:52:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T20:52:23","slug":"steelers-nab-kenny-pickett-clone-in-latest-2026-nfl-draft-mock-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/156639\/","title":{"rendered":"Steelers Nab Kenny Pickett Clone in Latest 2026 NFL Draft Mock-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"categories\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelersnow.com\/nfl-draft\/2026-nfl-draft\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">2026 NFL Draft<\/a>\u2022<a href=\"https:\/\/steelersnow.com\/steelers-news\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Steelers News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"788\" height=\"444\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/NCAA-Football-CFP-National-Championship-Miami-vs-Indiana-28043182.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium tpd-force-16x9-aspect-ratio wp-post-image\" alt=\"Pittsburgh Steelers 2026 NFL Draft Carson Beck\" decoding=\"sync\" loading=\"eager\"   fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Nathan Ray Seebeck-Imagn Images\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The Pittsburgh Steelers formally met with Miami quarterback Carson Beck at the NFL Scouting Combine, then hosted him on the South Side for a pre-draft visit.<\/p>\n<p>In his latest 2026 NFL Draft mock-up, posted Friday, NFL Network\u2019s Chad Reuter had those interactions adding up to the Steelers taking Beck with a third-round choice (No. 76 overall), the same one Omar Khan acquired when he shipped off George Pickens last offseason.<\/p>\n<p>NFL draft analyst Lance Zierlein compared Beck to former Steelers first-round pick Kenny Pickett in his scouting report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThree-year starter who has weathered his share of ups and downs,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/prospects\/carson-beck\/32004245-4312-2142-556e-736a5eb6c7f7\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Zierlein wrote<\/a>. \u201cBeck has NFL-caliber size and a lot of experience playing in high-leverage games. He recovered from 2024 UCL surgery on his throwing elbow, but he appeared to lose some drive velocity on deep balls and move throws. \u2026 Beck projects as a good backup with the potential to earn a starting job down the road, but he must continue developing game-managing instincts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"788\" height=\"525\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ec17b9d4-beck_nd.webp.jpeg\" alt=\"Pittsburgh Steelers 2026 NFL Draft Carson Beck Miami\" class=\"wp-image-139743\"  \/>Carson Beck, Miami Athletics<\/p>\n<p>Indiana\u2019s Fernando Mendoza (No. 1, Las Vegas), Alabama\u2019s Ty Simpson (No. 16, New York Jets) and LSU\u2019s Garrett Nussmeier (No. 65, Arizona) were chosen before Beck. Penn State\u2019s Drew Allar (No. 157, Los Angeles Rams) and North Dakota State\u2019s Cole Payton (No. 181, Detroit) were plucked in the fifth round of the projection.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(McCarthy) is super, super smart,\u201d Beck said about his meeting with McCarthy in Indianapolis. \u201cReally, really smart coach. That meeting, it was a lot of ball talk, for the most part. There was a couple questions about obviously just figuring out who I am and wanting to know who I am, but it was a lot of ball talk. I really enjoyed that meeting. It was really just me and him going back and forth the whole time, just talking football, which is what I love to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMentioned In This Article: <a href=\"https:\/\/steelersnow.com\/tag\/carson-beck\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Carson Beck<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/steelersnow.com\/tag\/pittsburgh-steelers\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/steelersnow.com\/tag\/steelers\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Steelers<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026 NFL Draft\u2022Steelers News Nathan Ray Seebeck-Imagn Images The Pittsburgh Steelers formally met with Miami quarterback Carson Beck&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[27893,73,75,74,1833,1829],"class_list":{"0":"post-156639","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-carson-beck","9":"tag-pittsburgh","10":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","11":"tag-pittsburgh-news","12":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","13":"tag-steelers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}