Steelers taking ODD APPROACH to first pre-draft visits with Mike McCarthy? Where are top prospects?

On the Friday episode of the North Shore Drive podcast, presented by FanDuel and Edgar Snyder & Associates, host Adam Bittner welcomes Post-Gazette Steelers insider Christopher Carter to discuss the team's seemingly odd approach to its pre-draft visits so far. Why haven't GM Omar Khan and coach Mike McCarthy welcomes more top prospects, particularly at positions of need like safety, guard and receiver? Can we still expect names like Dillon Thieneman, Emmauel McNeil-Warren, Jordyn Tyson, Makai Lemon, Vega Ioane and others to make their way through the South Side facility? Or does McCarthy simply place less emphasis on the pre-draft visits than Mike Tomlin's staff tended to? Our duo tackles those questions, then ponders the fate of the teams' 12 picks for the 2026 NFL draft. Will Khan keep all of them to surround his core of DK Metcalf, T.J. Watt, Cam Heyward, Derrick Harmon, Joey Porter Jr. and others? Could he use them to trade for outside veterans? Or will he look to move up in either the 20 Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.