The Pittsburgh Steelers made a serious investment in their offensive line during the NFL draft.
The huddle and the sideline will look significantly different this fall when the Steelers take the field in Week 1.
How longtime coach Mike Tomlin wants his team to move the ball, however, will not. The proof came over three sometimes-tense days of the NFL draft, when general manager Omar Khan took his emphasis on building the team from the inside out to the extreme.
The Steelers selected offensive linemen with three of their first five picks, grabbing Washington tackle Troy Fautanu in the first round, West Virginia center Zach Frazier in the second and South Dakota State guard Mason McCormick in the fourth.
The previous time Pittsburgh used such heavy draft capital on linemen came in 1976 at the height of the “Steel Curtain” dynasty. Doing it again nearly 50 years later highlights that …