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2019 NFL Draft: AFC North Best and Worst Picks, What the Heck Cincy?

By Brooks Austin

NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE - APRIL 25: Marquise Brown of Oklahoma poses with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell after being chosen #25 overall by the Baltimore Ravens during the first round of the 2019 NFL Draft on April 25, 2019 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty Images)
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE - APRIL 25: Marquise Brown of Oklahoma poses with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell after being chosen #25 overall by the Baltimore Ravens during the first round of the 2019 NFL Draft on April 25, 2019 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty Images) /
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Pittsburgh Steelers: B

  •        Rd 1, Pick 10 (10)               Devin Bush, LB
  •        Rd 3, Pick 2 (66)                  Diontae Johnson, WR
  •        Rd 3, Pick 20 (83)               Justin Layne, CB
  •        Rd 4, Pick 20 (122)            Benny Snell, RB
  •        Rd 5, Pick 3 (141)               Zach Gentry, TE
  •        Rd 6, Pick 2 (175)               Sutton Smith, EDGE
  •        Rd 6, Pick 20 (192)             Isaiah Buggs, DT
  •        Rd 6, Pick 35 (207)             Ulysees Gilbert, LB
  •        Rd 7, Pick 5 (219)               Derwin Gray, T

Best Pick: Devin Bush, LB

This is the only time were I’ll give the cookie cutter answer that is “their first pick was their best pick.” Well, damn Brooks. I hope so.

Nonetheless, the Steelers did what every fanbase wants their team to do: Move up for your guy! They knew Cincinnati was sitting at pick 11 just licking their chops for some of Devin Bush in those Bengal stripes. Did they give up a little bit to much? Yeah, but Bush is a decade-long impact player.

Worst Pick: Diontae Johnson, WR

Seems like the Steelers were dead set on drafting their replacement for Antonio Brown. So much so, they took his draft clone. Try to decipher between these two:

  1. 5’10” / 183 pounds / 4.52 forty
  2. 5’10” / 186 pounds / 4.47 forty

Even down to the fact that both played in the MAC.

The only problem? Antonio Browns don’t just grow on the trees in the Steel City.

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