{"id":745408,"date":"2026-02-11T18:58:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T18:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/745408\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T18:58:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T18:58:30","slug":"analyst-suggests-new-qb-name-steelers-should-trade-1st-round-pick-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/745408\/","title":{"rendered":"Analyst Suggests New QB Name Steelers Should Trade 1st-Round Pick For"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an offseason full of speculation about Malik Willis, Mac Jones, and Kyler Murray, ESPN analyst Evan Cohen is offering a new quarterback for whom the Pittsburgh Steelers should consider making a blockbuster trade. The Detroit Lions\u2019 Jared Goff. Cohen suggested new head coach Mike McCarthy make a big splash to begin his Steelers tenure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I were the Pittsburgh Steelers, would I give you my first-round pick for Jared Goff? I would. I would,\u201d Cohen said on ESPN\u2019s Unsportsmanlike Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Cohen is a regular at big offseason trade ideas. He was a regular proponent of trading EDGE <a href=\"https:\/\/steelersdepot.com\/2025\/03\/analyst-floats-wild-trade-idea-sending-t-j-watt-to-vikings-for-qb-j-j-mccarthy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">T.J. Watt the past two years,<\/a> a suggestion some would argue he was right about. He finger-wagged Pittsburgh for not <a href=\"https:\/\/steelersdepot.com\/2025\/12\/analysts-scold-steelers-for-not-trading-for-qb-matthew-stafford-would-be-the-favorites-to-win-the-super-bowl\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">selling the farm for Matthew Stafford<\/a> and thought the team should <a href=\"https:\/\/steelersdepot.com\/2025\/03\/steelers-should-trade-for-will-levis-analyst-says\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">buy low on Will Levis.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Goff sits somewhere between those quarterback suggestions. Not the elite passer Stafford is. Not the reclamation projection Levis would be. Cohen sees him in the sweet spot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s young enough at 31 years old where I could get five years out of him better than anything that I\u2019ve had over the last five years, right?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Goff could play another five years, the duration of McCarthy\u2019s contract with the team. The question is how far Pittsburgh could go with him. He\u2019s coming off back-to-back Pro Bowl seasons and threw for an impressive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/G\/GoffJa00.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">34 touchdowns to just eight interceptions<\/a> a year ago. Production the Steelers simply haven\u2019t had in years.<\/p>\n<p>But the tape suggests he\u2019s, at best, a borderline top-10 quarterback, and he struggled in Detroit\u2019s Week 16 loss to Pittsburgh. Though all quarterbacks benefit from a solid supporting cast, Goff could regress if he\u2019s away from Detroit\u2019s indoor stadium and is forced to play outdoors in December at Acrisure.<\/p>\n<p>Flipping a first rounder for him isn\u2019t the best long-term plan. On the other side, it\u2019s fair to argue Pittsburgh isn\u2019t spending a first-round pick on a quarterback this year anyway so there\u2019s no \u201crisk\u201d in choosing Goff over a 2026 blue-chip prospect. Still, a better plan is to use that pick elsewhere and potentially make an aggressive move for a quarterback in the 2027 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>Goff, at best, could keep Pittsburgh afloat and win a playoff game. But it\u2019s doubtful he\u2019s the answer to lead the Steelers on a true run or keep a Super Bowl window open for several years, making a first-round pick a bad investment. Not to mention that Detroit likely has little interest in such a radical move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In an offseason full of speculation about Malik Willis, Mac Jones, and Kyler Murray, ESPN analyst Evan Cohen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":745409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[113,20407,7,1029,6,57,691],"class_list":{"0":"post-745408","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-detroit-lions","9":"tag-evan-cohen","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-jared-goff","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","14":"tag-trending"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116053534645940677","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745408","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=745408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/745409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}