Steven Jones, the mystery man, visited the Steelers before to the draft.
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The Steelers are within the center of their pre-draft visit season. Each group is permitted 30 visits from imminent draftees additionally boundless neighborhood visits. So distant, 17 of the 30 have been declared beside 4 neighborhood visits. Check here for Behind the Steel Curtain’s tracker.
One of these visits has a place to obscure OL prospect Steven Jones. On Walk 12, OL coach Pat Meyer gone to Oregon’s Master Day assumedly to check out beat center prospect Jackson Powers-Johnson. Without Mike Tomlin or Omar Khan show, it would make sense that anybody who awed Meyer would be welcomed to Pittsburgh on a visit to be assessed by the decision-makers. Strangely, Powers-Johnson wasn’t welcomed but Jones was.
In the event that you haven’t listened of Jones, you’re not alone. When I saw his visit declared, I begun inquiring about to do this article. There was essentially no data on him at all. I looked through deride draft websites to see where he positioned. The brief reply is that on most destinations he didn’t rank at all. I did discover him on NFLmockdraftdatabase.com as in general prospect No. 371 and insides OL prospect No. 38. In the event that you google him presently, nearly each news result is since he gone to the Steelers. It’s nearly like he was in witness assurance and his visit put him on the web outline.
What I can tell you is that Steven Jones is one mountain of a man based on his Master Day measurables per USCAnnenbergMedia. Think of 18-year OT Jason Diminishes for a comp estimate.
6’5¼
342 Pounds
10 ¾ Hands
34⅝ Arms
84⅛ Wingspan
From the Oregon site goducks.com, we learn that Jones was AP All-Pac 12 to begin with group in 2023, beginning all 14 recreations at right watch. Prior in his career he bounced between cleared out handle, right handle, and right protect some time recently playing solely at right protect as a junior and senior. His junior season was hindered for 8 recreations by a Lisfranc damage that required surgery.
After investing six a long time at Oregon, it can be accepted that Jones could be a much more seasoned prospect. In any case, the need of information accessible on him takes off his correct age in address. The as it were location I found that appeared a birthdate recorded it as 1/1/1999 which would make him 25 a long time ancient. In any case, that same location had his tallness and weight recorded inaccurately, swapping them with another Steven Jones who plays protective back at Appalachian State.
I wish there was more to tell or appear almost Jones, but he characterizes under-the-radar. Given his moo respect among the taunt locales, it would show up the Steelers are doing inquire about on a free operator marking for after the draft. His measure and arm length may donate him a future at handle as well as watch. His expected age appears a bit ancient for a formative UDFA prospect, but Alejandro Villanueva was 27 the primary time he played a snap within the NFL. It sounds like Jones may be a comparable low-risk lottery ticket on a future watch with conceivable handle flexibility.
