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Key takeaways
- He got his wish with 10 rookies in his first class as the head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers.
- "You'll never hear me talk about the 53, I'll talk about the 68," Mc Carthy said at the recent NFL meetings in Phoenix, emphasizing the importance of practice squads and deep rosters.
- Some of those rookies, though, figure to have a greater impact right away, while others are developmental projects.
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He got his wish with 10 rookies in his first class as the head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers.
"You'll never hear me talk about the 53, I'll talk about the 68," Mc Carthy said at the recent NFL meetings in Phoenix, emphasizing the importance of practice squads and deep rosters. "And so if you got 12 picks, let's just try to pick 12 really good football players."
General manager Omar Khan traded two of those picks away in deals to acquire wide receiver Germie Bernard and offensive tackle Gennings Dunker, but McCarthy still wound up with a double-digit draft class as the Steelers plugged holes up and down the roster.
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