Kevin Colbert
Kevin Colbert
Kevin Colbertis the general manager of the National Football League's Pittsburgh Steelers since the start of 2000. He is widely credited with putting together the Super Bowl XL and the Super Bowl XLIII teams in Pittsburgh along with owner Dan Rooney, president Art Rooney II, and coaches Bill Cowher and Mike Tomlin...
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As we say every year, I don't think anybody ever thinks that they had a bad draft. We are no different. We are happy with the way things turned out.
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I think you pay attention to what everybody is doing this time of year. But you do pay more attention to your own division, for sure.
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It's a very highly competitive division and is only going to get better because these kids are so young. We liked Charlie Frye when we did the evaluations on him last year.
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That really doesn't change anything. I guess it's different in that our challenge now is to keep this team together as best we can. So it's different from that standpoint. But our approach and preparation is the same.
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We don't say one guy's a priority over the other. We do believe that we would love to have everyone back. It's hard to say where you can and can't go, because you don't know what's out there for the players yet, because they can't get offers from other teams. We want everybody back. Is that realistic? No. It's our challenge to keep this thing together the best that we can.
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When it's this late in the year, you want someone who knows what it's all about. We knew him and knew he'd give us a good look in practice.
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We feel good about Nate. Nate was a kid coming out of small college, and he had to adapt. He had to make a more dramatic leap than a kid coming from a bigger school. Throughout the year, he got better and better and better, to where he helped us win a playoff game. You look at him and say, OK, this kid's got a chance to develop.
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Just looking at our history, we never have been (real active) and I don't think we'll change from that. We don't anticipate that. We'd like to get as many of our own guys back as we can, and add to it as necessary, and then go to the draft and get players that way also.
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We're not in a situation where we have to tear it up. When you look at our team, we have a lot of guys under contract for a minimum of two years. We're kind of caught up right now.
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We were unanimous in thinking Troy was worth the 16th pick. It worked out well for both teams. They got (running back) Larry Johnson.
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So many of the kids came out (early) last year, it weakened this year's group.