Chad Reuter of NFL.com<\/a> is projecting the Steelers to take a flyer on a former projected first-round pick in his latest three-round mock. Reuter has the Steelers selecting Penn State quarterback Drew Allar in the third round (No. 76 overall).<\/p>\nThe Steelers have multiple picks in the third round and would be selecting Allar with the pick acquired from the Dallas Cowboys for George Pickens.<\/p>\n
Allar entered the 2025 college football season as one of the top quarterback prospects in the country. A season-ending ankle injury against Northwestern limited the senior signal caller to six games and ended his Penn State career. In 45 career games, Allar owns a 63% completion rate with 62 touchdowns compared to 13 interceptions. He threw for 7,402 yards, 1,100 as a senior, and was a three-year starter for the Nittany Lions.<\/p>\n
Penn State entered the season as the No. 2 team in the country and was projected by many to win its first national championship in nearly 40 years. A 6-foot-5 quarterback from Medina, Ohio, Allar had good moments but never fully lived up to the hype of becoming a high first-round pick.<\/p>\n
Allar performed well in games Penn State was projected to win, but struggled in big moments. He threw game-clinching interceptions against Oregon twice and in the College Football Playoff semifinal loss to Notre Dame. Allar finished his career 0-4 against Oregon and Ohio State.<\/p>\n
Rueter had the Miami Dolphins selecting quarterback Garrett Nussmeier (LSU) one pick ahead of the Steelers.<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh will host the 2026 NFL Draft outside Acrisure Stadium from April 23-25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Steelers are still looking for their franchise quarterback as the 2026 NFL Draft enters their own…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":743401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2055],"tags":[7,6,520,57,2376,2374,2360,426],"class_list":{"0":"post-743400","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-steelers","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-pittsburgh","11":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","12":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers-draft","13":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers-news","14":"tag-pittsburghsteelers","15":"tag-steelers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116048651065884950","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/743401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}