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Weidl reflects on 1st draft with Steelers

Q. What was the experience like for you, your first time in the Steelers draft room working with Omar (Khan) and Mike Tomlin?

A. It was awesome working with those guys. Not only them, but our entire scouting staff, the coaching staff and everybody we had in the building. It takes a village to do a draft. It really does. There’s a lot of people who put a lot of time and effort into this. It was a big collaborative effort.

We come together, and we find Steelers. We bring guys in. We find guys who are our kind of people, our kind of players, players who are going to add to the culture and it was just awesome to see everybody come together and pull together. When you work together, you put ego aside, and you are working towards a common goal, you know you can achieve greatness. We’re really excited about the process, how it went and look forward

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