{"id":174956,"date":"2026-04-24T15:21:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T15:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/174956\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T15:21:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T15:21:15","slug":"pittsburgh-looked-great-on-draft-night-the-steelers-did-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/174956\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh looked great on draft night. The Steelers did not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The city of Pittsburgh couldn\u2019t have looked better during draft night Thursday.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\">Day 1. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/k1OzHypVLb\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/k1OzHypVLb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 City of Pittsburgh (@Pittsburgh) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pittsburgh\/status\/2047524704529838429?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 24, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>But the Steelers\u2019 front office couldn\u2019t have looked worse. They got punked by the Philadelphia Eagles before making their draft choice at No. 21. The Steelers were on the phone with USC wide receiver Makai Lemon, ready to pick him.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s when the Eagles traded into the No. 20 slot and stole him while the cameras recorded the whole thing.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Here is the moment Makai Lemon thought he was getting drafted by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Steelers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#Steelers<\/a> and realizing in real time that the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Eagles?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#Eagles<\/a> traded up, via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gmfb?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@gmfb<\/a> this morning.<\/p>\n<p>He asked Omar Khan &#8220;Why is Philly calling [me]?&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AbXDJONYye\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/AbXDJONYye<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ross McCorkle (@Ross_McCorkle) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ross_McCorkle\/status\/2047659686665613621?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 24, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>In this week\u2019s \u201cBeyond the Bylines,\u201d Joe Starkey and I talk about everything that happened \u2014 and didn\u2019t happen \u2014 with the Steelers in the first round. We also get into the prospects of who the Steelers ultimately chose: Arizona State offensive tackle Max Iheanachor. And we discuss the looming demise of the Pittsburgh Penguins, who could be swept by the Flyers on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The city of Pittsburgh couldn\u2019t have looked better during draft night Thursday. Day 1. pic.twitter.com\/k1OzHypVLb \u2014 City of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-174956","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-pittsburgh","9":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","10":"tag-pittsburgh-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174956","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=174956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}