With less than a month to go until the 2015 NFL Draft, I thought that now would be the perfect time to play a game that revolves around roster locks for the upcoming season now that the bulk of signings and re-signings have occurred.
Doing this exercise really helps us look at the potential needs in the upcoming draft in addition to helping identify the roster battles that will take place during the summer.
Below are my choices of players that I feel are locks to make the Pittsburgh Steelers final 53 man roster. Feel free to tell me in the comments below why you disagree with any of my locks and in addition to that, please argue why a player I have left out deserves to be included.
This should be a very entertaining exercise and it will be fun to look back at this post once the final roster is set.
| Steelers 2015 Projected Roster Locks | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | PLAYER | POS | AGE | EXP |
| 76 | Adams, Mike | T | 25 | 4 |
| 28 | Allen, Cortez | CB | 26 | 5 |
| 68 | Beachum, Kelvin | T/G | 25 | 4 |
| 26 | Bell, Le’Veon | RB | 23 | 3 |
| 41 | Blake, Antwon | CB | 24 | 4 |
| 84 | Brown, Antonio | WR | 26 | 6 |
| 10 | Bryant, Martavis | WR | 23 | 2 |
| 66 | DeCastro, David | G | 25 | 4 |
| 73 | Foster, Ramon | G | 29 | 7 |
| 22 | Gay, William | CB | 30 | 9 |
| 77 | Gilbert, Marcus | T | 27 | 5 |
| 5 | Gradkowski, Bruce | QB | 32 | 10 |
| 92 | Harrison, James | OLB | 36 | 13 |
| 97 | Heyward, Cameron | DE | 25 | 5 |
| 95 | Jones, Jarvis | OLB | 25 | 3 |
| 62 | McCullers, Daniel | NT | 22 | 2 |
| 90 | McLendon, Steve | NT | 29 | 6 |
| 83 | Miller, Heath | TE | 32 | 11 |
| 23 | Mitchell, Mike | S | 27 | 7 |
| 55 | Moats, Arthur | OLB | 27 | 6 |
| 53 | Pouncey, Maurkice | C | 25 | 6 |
| 7 | Roethlisberger, Ben | QB | 33 | 12 |
| 50 | Shazier, Ryan | ILB | 22 | 2 |
| 89 | Spaeth, Matt | TE | 31 | 9 |
| 51 | Spence, Sean | ILB | 24 | 4 |
| 6 | Suisham, Shaun | K | 33 | 11 |
| 29 | Thomas, Shamarko | S | 24 | 3 |
| 94 | Timmons, Lawrence | ILB | 28 | 9 |
| 91 | Tuitt, Stephon | DE | 21 | 2 |
| 72 | Wallace, Cody | C/G | 30 | 6 |
| 60 | Warren, Greg | LS | 33 | 11 |
| 11 | Wheaton, Markus | WR | 24 | 3 |
| 34 | Williams, DeAngelo | RB | 31 | 10 |
| 98 | Williams, Vince | ILB | 25 | 3 |
