The Pittsburgh Steelers traded up to the 10th overall pick in the first round of the 2019 NFL Draft on Thursday night just to take University of Michigan linebacker Devin Bush, and the Steelers seem thrilled with their choice.
“When you make a trade up to the top 10, we were very excited to make that trade and get Devin Bush,” said Pittsburgh general manager Kevin Colbert, according to Gerry Dulac of The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. “It was something we wanted to do and were able to do it. This is a unique football player.”
It marked the first time the Steelers moved up in the first round since 2003, when Pittsburgh traded up to No. 16 from the No. 27 to take safety Troy Polamalu. It seems safe to say that that worked out pretty well.
Will the move to get Bush be as monumental?
“As an inside linebacker, his game is really predicated on what is needed to play the position in modern-day NFL football,” Colbert said. “He cannot only play the run he has exceptional cover abilities. We’re very, very excited to be able to move up and get a young player, a young man, like Devin Bush.”
Bush is the highest drafted player by the Steelers since the team took wide receiver Plaxico Burress eighth overall all the way back in 2000, which is a testament to just how good Pittsburgh has been for the last two decades.
Still, the Steelers are coming off of a disappointing 2018 campaign in which they went 9-6-1 and missed the playoffs for the first time since 2013.
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