Landon Collins visits Steelers

[Vis]

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/04/23/landon-collins-visits-steelers/

The Steelers will start a season without safety Troy Polamalu on the roster for the first time since 2002, which will likely have them in the market for help at the position when the draft kicks off next week.

Their search for that help had Alabama’s Landon Collins at the team’s headquarters as the Steelers wrapped up their pre-draft visits with prospects on Wednesday. Collins is expected to be the first safety selected this year and Mark Kaboly of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports that he’s the only safety to visit with the team.

Collins’s status as the lone safety visitor illustrates how many defensive holes the Steelers have to fill at the moment. Kansas cornerback Dexter McDonald, Mississippi State defensive end Preston Smith and Tennessee-Chattanooga outside linebacker Davis Tull all visited the team on Wednesday as well and the Steelers need a boost at all those positions as well as safety as they try to rebuild a defense that’s seen several key veterans depart in recent years.

All told, 18 of the 29 pre-draft visitors to the Steelers play on the defensive side of the ball and it wouldn’t be surprising if the ratio of their draft picks tilts even more toward that side of the ball.


I'd love Collins as the pick.

 

[ZACKB]

smokescreen. Shamarko is penciled in to start.

 

[SteelerAl]

I'm really not interested in an "in the box" safety at #22. But I'm just going based on what I've read. If anyone out there thinks this guy has an elite (or close to it) skillset in terms of speed and change of direction, I'd love to hear it. If you just want him because you're a 'Bama fan, that's great but it does nothing for me.

 

[Vis]

smokescreen. Shamarko is penciled in to start.

Of course, we never start draft picks. That doesn't mean he won't be picked as Mitchell's replacement for next year.

 

[Spike]

smokescreen. Shamarko is penciled in to start.

pencils have erasers

 

[ZACKB]

Not happening....no f'n way.. unless we tarde down and no good corners or olb's are there...so I say no.

 

[SteelerAl]

Greg Cosell of NFL Films doesn't even have Landon Collins as the #1 safety (he has Randall from Arizona St. as #1). Thinks Collins is very limited athletically. Follow this link, it's at about the 18 minute mark of the discussion on DBs.

http://www.rosstucker.com/wp/podcasts/ross-tucker-football-podcast/

 

[ZACKB]

Mayock agrees with Cosell too. Shamarko is short. If he had been 3 inches taller he would have been a 2nd round pick. He has a high vertical jump, and Colbert thinks he can make up for his lack of height. I could, however, see a safety in rds 3-5 just for depth.

 

[bermudasteel]

I'm really not interested in an "in the box" safety at #22. But I'm just going based on what I've read. If anyone out there thinks this guy has an elite (or close to it) skillset in terms of speed and change of direction, I'd love to hear it. If you just want him because you're a 'Bama fan, that's great but it does nothing for me.

My .02 cents...

Collins is a FREE SAFETY by nature and has the ability to play in the box. Is he Troy? No - but, he does have some attributes that make him the "best option" for the Steelers - because of the defensive scheme that we run in comparison to the schemes at 'Bama.

Is he my choice at 1.22??? No.

I want a BLUE CHIP pass rusher. Period.