If there is one downside to winning the Super Bowl -- and this is the equivalent of having to pay taxes on a winning million-dollar lottery ticket -- it's the long wait the Steelers will have to endure today at their South Side facility.
The Steelers aren't slated to pick until No. 32 in the first round of the NFL Draft. That means the Steelers, barring a trade, will take a lot of players off the draft board they have painstakingly put together before it is their turn to make a pick.
"The frustrating thing," Steelers director of operations Kevin Colbert said, "is just waiting that long."
Not that Colbert is disheartened by where the Steelers are picking in the first round.
He said the Steelers have identified 32 players they feel "comfortable" taking with their top pick, and the team has done well picking near the bottom of the first round. Continue