{"id":175902,"date":"2026-04-25T15:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T15:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/175902\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T15:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T15:49:08","slug":"steelers-day-3-2026-nfl-mock-draft-pittsburgh-makes-a-splash-after-two-big-time-trades-to-kick-off-the-final-day-of-selections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/175902\/","title":{"rendered":"Steelers Day 3 2026 NFL Mock Draft: Pittsburgh makes a splash after two big-time trades to kick off the final day of selections"},"content":{"rendered":"

The final day of the 2026 NFL Draft is here, so we are producing the last Steelers<\/a> mock of this cycle. Pittsburgh<\/a> turns its five selections into three and makes a couple of splashes in round four.<\/p>\n

After months of buildup, the third and final day of the 2026 NFL Draft is here, and the Pittsburgh Steelers will be on the clock in a matter of hours. To prepare for the final day, I have created a mock draft, and it starts out with a bang. <\/p>\n

Here is our final, 2026 Steelers mock draft.<\/p>\n

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Round 4, pick 102: Kamari Ramsey<\/a>, S, USC<\/p>\n

Trade details: Steelers send pick 121, 249 in exchange for pick 102 from LV.<\/p>\n

The fact that Ramsey has made it to day three of the draft is fairly surprising. He was widely viewed as one of the better safeties in the class, and the Pittsburgh Steelers could still use someone to play on the roof of their defense long-term.<\/p>\n

Both DeShon Elliott<\/a> and Jaquan Brisker<\/a> will be free agents after the 2026 season, and the Steelers need a youth movement on the backend of their defense. That started with Daylen Everette last night<\/a>, and it can carry on with Ramsey.<\/p>\n

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Round 4, Pick 130: Harold Perkins<\/a> Jr., LB, LSU<\/p>\n

Trade details: Steelers send pick 161, 230 in exchange for pick 130 from MIA.<\/p>\n

Harold Perkins can kill two birds with one stone here at 130. They haven\u2019t selected an EDGE (not that they need to) or a stacked backer, but Perkins can be both. He\u2019s a hyper athletic, stacked backer that also showed the pass rush prowess to win when aligned on the EDGE.<\/p>\n

With all of the hearsay surrounding both Alex Highsmith and Patrick Queen<\/a>, Perkins could be a long play in the middle of the defense. If not for some injury history and regression at LSU, he would have gone much earlier in the class.<\/p>\n

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Round 7, pick 224: Riley Nowakowski, TE, Indiana<\/p>\n

Following the release of Jonnu Smith<\/a> and the departure of Connor Heyward<\/a>, the Steelers went from a TE room that was overflowing to one that could use some more talent and really, just depth. That\u2019s Nowakowski.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The final day of the 2026 NFL Draft is here, so we are producing the last Steelers mock…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[7664,26241,67346,13239,78734,63046,3274,54824,44367,9075,73,75,74,1829,78747,78748],"class_list":{"0":"post-175902","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-alex-highsmith","9":"tag-connor-heyward","10":"tag-daylen-everette","11":"tag-deshon-elliott","12":"tag-harold-perkins","13":"tag-jaquan-brisker","14":"tag-jonnu-smith","15":"tag-kamari-ramsey","16":"tag-mock-draft","17":"tag-patrick-queen","18":"tag-pittsburgh","19":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","20":"tag-pittsburgh-news","21":"tag-steelers","22":"tag-the-final-day","23":"tag-trade-details"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175902","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=175902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}