About the best you can say is the 8-8 Steelers added some special teams players for 2020 and brought in rookies who’ll replace second-tier stars like receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster and linebacker Bud Dupree next season. This, so the Steelers have the salary-cap firepower to re-sign true superstars like T.J. Watt and Minkah Fitzpatrick. Still, the Steelers’ odds of returning to the NFL playoffs after a two-year drought did improve markedly. Not due to the draft. Rather, because the NFL playoffs will now include a seventh team from each conference. If this had been the case the past two years, the Steelers would have made the postseason. So there is hope. Just not a lot of comfort after this crapshoot of a draft.

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