Overreactions to the Pittsburgh Steelers' 2026 NFL Draft Class: Will Howard's future, Omar Khan without Mike Tomlin, and more
Here are some of the most common thoughts and storylines surrounding the Pittsburgh Steelers 2026 NFL Draft, and here is why they are overreactions.
The Pittsburgh Steelers had a 2026 NFL Draft that was, well, perplexing to put it nicely . There are a lot of ways to skin a cat when it comes to the draft process, and in three to four years, there's a chance we look back on the class and the prevailing notion was dead wrong. So today, we are going to name the three biggest overreactions to what the Steelers just did over the course of the weekend.
Let's jump in. Overreaction No. 1: Max Iheanachor is another Broderick Jones Look, if we want to reprimand what happened in the first round and the phone-gate debacle, that's fine.
But as Omar Khan said after the draft, the Steelers stuck true to their board and went with their highest rated player once Makai Lemon was poached by the Eagles . And yes, Iheanachor is raw. Yes, he didn't start playing football until very recently and was mostly a soccer player.
But the truth is, there might not be a tackle with higher potential and a greater ceiling than Iheanachor. The feet, the length, the traits, it's all there. Sure, the Steelers will need to be patient, but this isn't a player who is fundamentally flawed the way that Jones was.