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DK's Daily Shot of Steelers: A dual-themed draft

DK Pittsburgh Sports: Daily podcasts on Steelers, Penguins, Pirates!

Pittsburgh Steelers, Penguins, Pirates

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4.8778 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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It was a dual-themed draft, if you think about it. Hear award-winning columnist Dejan Kovacevic's Daily Shots of Steelers, Penguins and Pirates -- three separate podcasts -- every weekday morning on the DK Pittsburgh Sports podcasting network, available on all platforms: https://linktr.ee/dkpghsports Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

All right, so I'm not in much of a position to complain, you know.

0:12.3

Good morning to you.

0:13.4

Good Sunday morning.

0:14.9

I'm Dan Kovachovich of D.K. Pittsburgh Sports, and this is a special edition of Daily Shot of Steelers.

0:24.9

Coming after the NFL draft class was completed yesterday. You're going to go through those names with you before anything else.

0:31.8

The fourth round saw their first pick of the day. That was Jack Sawyer, edge rusher out of Ohio State. Fifth round saw

0:40.3

Yahya Black. That's another defensive lineman added to the fold, along with Derek

0:45.5

Harmon, who of course was taken in the first round out of Oregon. Black is from Iowa.

0:51.0

Sixth round saw the first quarterback, the only quarterback of the class.

0:55.4

Will Howard, also from the national champion, Buckeyes,

1:00.1

Carson Bruner, a linebacker out of Washington, and yes, that's Mark Bruner's kid.

1:06.7

Dante Kent, the cornerback slash punt returner out of Central Michigan, both were taken in the round.

1:14.2

It really ought to come to be known as the Danny Smith round.

1:17.3

That's the seventh.

1:18.9

And everyone seemed plenty satisfied.

1:21.8

Afterward, Mike Tomlin even seemed to assign a theme to the whole thing when he was asked about the emphasis,

1:30.0

the clear emphasis on shoring up the defensive front and maybe getting some big bodies

1:34.7

into that mix.

1:36.2

Yeah, I would certainly agree with that, but it goes beyond the defensive front.

1:40.3

We wanted to retool physicality in all areas, and included in that discussion is the use of the second round pick to acquire D.K. Metcalfe, although he's a receiver, I think he fits the bill in terms of physicality and size.

1:54.8

And so that definitely was an agenda of ours this weekend.

1:58.1

Okay, so there was a theme.

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