linked to wide receivers<\/a> in the free agent and trade markets for too long. It\u2019s time to do for the WR position what the team did with the offensive and defensive lines in each of the last two years. Heck, with 12 projected draft picks, why not take three receivers and overhaul the room with youth and competition?<\/p>\n\u201cIf I had to pick one need for them going to the offseason, it actually might be two, it\u2019s the receiving corps,\u201d Ray Fittipaldo said. \u201cThey have to upgrade. DK Metcalf is their No. 1. I\u2019m not so sure he\u2019s a No. 1. They gotta get somebody else to be his running mate, and it wouldn\u2019t be a bad idea to draft somebody else too because we don\u2019t know what\u2019s gonna happen with Roman Wilson.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Steelers have only selected one receiver in the past three drafts, and Wilson was a massive disappointment this season. After turning heads during training camp and the preseason, he was a complete no-show who finished the year as a healthy scratch in sweats and a T-shirt. It\u2019s not time to completely give up on him, but he is basically still at square one entering his third season. He\u2019s entering DeMarvin Leal territory as a former third rounder with minimal expectations moving forward.<\/p>\n
Matt Miller\u2019s initial top 50 prospects list<\/a> featured eight receivers. There will undoubtedly be movement on that list throughout the pre-draft process, but there are plenty of receivers to be had for Pittsburgh. If this isn\u2019t the year to land a quarterback as initially expected, invest in whom the eventual quarterback will be throwing to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Steelers\u2019 2025 season is over, which means it\u2019s time for a post-mortem on what went wrong…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[31803,6538,41057,73,75,74,25828,42811],"class_list":{"0":"post-85585","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-2026-nfl-draft","9":"tag-dk-metcalf","10":"tag-gerry-dulac","11":"tag-pittsburgh","12":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","13":"tag-pittsburgh-news","14":"tag-pittsburgh-post-gazette","15":"tag-ray-fittipaldo"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85585","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=85585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}