NFL Draft Triple Take (Mock Draft 2.0), March 7, 2025

Mike, Rob, and Matt break down their second round of predictions for the 2025 NFL Draft

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:06):
Hello, everyone, and welcome to another edition of Triple Tank,
brought to you by up MC. I'm Mike Pursuda from
Steelers dot Com and the Steelers Audio Network, joined on
the far left by Matt Williamson from Steelers Nation Radio
and Steelers dot Com. The guy in the middle. I'm
sure everyone recognizes the great Rob King play by play

(00:27):
voice and the Steelers interviewer extraordinaire.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
Rob Welcome, Thank you, glad to be here.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
Rob is here because Dale Lawllie, who's usually a part
of these programs with Matt and myself, is a little
banged up. We've got Dale on the reserve injured list. Now, Matt,
correct me if I'm wrong. We have two weeks to
get him to talk and write, and then if we
like it, we reactivate him. If we got a lot

(00:54):
of faith in Dale, we are here to provide for
you mock Draft two point zero. And before we get
to that, I want to remind everyone that the opinions
expressed here in are the opinions of myself, Matt, and
Rob King, not the Pittsburgh Steelers. But we do have opinions,
and I'm really interested in getting to those, But first

(01:16):
got to take a minute. Both of you guys were
lucky enough to attend the combine. Yeah, and I'm curious,
Matt will start with you, just your observations. Did it
play out the way you thought it would? Were there
any major surprises or anything really gets your attention.

Speaker 3 (01:31):
It's funny because I always make the joke when I'm
at the combine, I don't get to watch the combine,
you know, so I catch up with it when I
get home. A lot less participation lately, you know, a
lot of these guys aren't running shuttles and three cones
and things like that. Only three quarterbacks ran forties, so
a lot of these guys are holding it for their
pro day. And I don't know, maybe that's the reflection

(01:51):
of the playoff system.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:52):
Some of these guys are going later into the season,
you know, a lot of guys aren't in the Senior Bowl.
Just seemed like there was less buzz in the combine
than usual, but that's still very buzzy spot.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
Rob, you split a fair amouney your time in Indianapolis
talking to some pretty important people here with the Steelers.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
Yeah, it was fun to talk to Omar Khan and
Sheldon White and Dan Colbert get their insights on what
the team is trying to do in the off season.
And also, this is the first time I've been to
a combine. This is like Combine Royalty right here. Matt Williams,
he's going around the room. He's he's getting guests. People
are hauling him onto shows. He's bringing people onto our shows.
Everybody knows who he is. We're seeing all these guys
are like, Hey, Matt, I don't want to age you here,

(02:28):
but hey, I used to listen to you when I
was a kid. Were getting to that age, you know. Yeah,
but when we get my granddad loved you, right, and
then we're getting up there. But but no, it was
great being with Matt and the rest of the crew
and Max Starks and West and Dale and and learning
a lot and just you know, kind of getting the buzz.
It was an exciting time.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
Now to Omar Sheldon or Danny revealed to you who
the Steelers intensive.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
Drift, Absolutely not.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
Yeah, you wouldn't tell us if they had was.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
Done by they had told me that now that they
didn't tell them.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
The format is the same as we've been running for
a while here on Steelers dot Com. We take the
first round in segments of ten. I know there are
thirty two picks and it doesn't quite work out that way,
but it's basically divvied up in the thirds. So we
will give you one by one what we think for
a further review. Second look, the first round might wind

(03:24):
up looking like in Matt Let's start with you many
changes on this initial or second Excuse me top ten.

Speaker 3 (03:33):
Not to take the low hanging fruit, but I'm feeling
stronger and stronger that the first player selected is going
to be cam Ward. Now I don't know if it's
going to be the Titans. It's select them. We're not
allowed to do trades raiders. One of the New York
teams could certainly get to one, but history shows that's
almost always a quarterback. And the other one I wanted
to touch on too is I feel really strongly at

(03:53):
eight the Carolina is going to be really aggressive, trying
to improve their defense. You know, last offseason they build
around their first overall quarterback. This is the offseason. I
think it's time to get the defensive side of the
ball in.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
Order you have any changes from last time.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
Here and there not a ton in the top ten.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
Rob Let's take a look at your one through ten.
Now this is your first crack at it. What do
you feel strongly about here