{"id":82326,"date":"2025-05-27T09:30:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T09:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/82326\/"},"modified":"2025-05-27T09:30:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T09:30:20","slug":"pff-releases-2026-qb-draft-watchlist-can-steelers-land-their-future-franchise-qb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/82326\/","title":{"rendered":"PFF releases 2026 QB draft watchlist \u2014 can Steelers land their future franchise QB?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2026 NFL Draft in Pittsburgh is shaping up to be the perfect opportunity for the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/pittsburgh-steelers\/356\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Steelers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Steelers<\/a> to select their franchise QB \u2014 and thanks to Pro Football Focus, it&#8217;s even easier for fans to learn which prospects they should watch.<\/p>\n<p>PFF released a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pff.com\/news\/draft-10-quarterbacks-to-know-2026-nfl-draft\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:2026 QB prospect watchlist;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">2026 QB prospect watchlist<\/a> \u2014 and it seems like the Steelers drafting any one of these 10 is a surefire guarantee:<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Sam Leavitt, Arizona State<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Lanorris Sellers, South Carolina<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Fernando Mendoza, Indiana<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 NFL Draft QB class is shaping up to be one of the most stacked in recent memory, as all 10 of these prospects could be drafted within the top 100 picks \u2014 including six potential first-round locks.<\/p>\n<p>Will the Steelers use their plethora of draft picks to trade up for Manning, Klubnik, or Allar? Or should Pittsburgh wait on 2025 sixth-round QB Will Howard&#8217;s potential development first?<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Steelers Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/steelerswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/steelers\/2025\/05\/26\/pittsburgh-steelers-pff-2026-qb-watch-list\/83860738007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Arch Manning leads PFF QB watchlist \u2014 will Steelers land top prospect?;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Arch Manning leads PFF QB watchlist \u2014 will Steelers land top prospect?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 NFL Draft in Pittsburgh is shaping up to be the perfect opportunity for the Steelers to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[615,2037,1800,7,6,15,520,410,426,20703,2183],"class_list":{"0":"post-82326","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl-draft","8":"tag-arch-manning","9":"tag-carson-beck","10":"tag-drew-allar","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-nfl-draft","14":"tag-pittsburgh","15":"tag-pro-football-focus","16":"tag-steelers","17":"tag-taylen-green","18":"tag-will-howard"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114579100576303189","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82326","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=82326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}