The Pittsburgh Steelers are starting fresh at center after cutting Mason Cole.
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00:00 The Steelers decide to move on from him before the NFL combined, before free agency, well before
00:06 really they have any real need to move on from Mason Cole and immediately after they find out
00:14 that they have about seven million dollars in cap space to spend right now so it's not a necessity
00:19 to start clearing space with veterans. You heard the news of Mason Cole, I think you were as shook
00:24 as I was. What was your response? What are your thoughts? Well my immediate reaction was, man,
00:31 let's take a look at some of these centers that are available in the draft. Let's look at it even
00:34 closer now than we were before. I think center always kind of seemed like a position of need
00:39 and now it is obviously a position of need. So you know, I don't know a whole lot about the free
00:46 agent class. It doesn't seem like there are going to be a ton of options even with the increased
00:51 salary cap number. So I'm looking directly at the NFL draft and this suddenly becomes an even bigger
00:57 week for the Steelers. It's not just, okay we're finding another option at center maybe, but it's
01:02 we got to find our guy. I feel like here at the NFL combined and then in the NFL draft they got
01:08 to make sure they land them. It seems like there's a handful of guys, you know, there's a few names
01:13 that are out there that could kind of fit that bill and the Steelers got to make sure they get
01:18 one of them because this is not a move you make unless you think, you know, your real center of
01:26 the future is not only out there that is available for you to get now, but that you're almost
01:30 guaranteed to land them because this is a risky move to make without, you know, a set backup plan
01:37 already in place. I agree. I agree a hundred percent. That was my first thought as well,
01:40 is the Steelers have to have a plan. Like there has to be something somewhere where they were all
01:46 sitting around going, we are 100% confident that this is going to work out the way that we believe
01:51 it is going to work out and that they will land. I'm guessing their center of the future,
01:56 like you don't release Mason Cole for some mid-tier free agent, right? I don't think that that's the
02:02 way that you'd go about it. I think this is go big or go home. And to be totally honest, like maybe
02:06 that is a big name. I mean, Brian Allen is the name that everybody keeps tossing out there as
02:11 a potential landing spot for the Steelers, former Ram. I mean, Cody Whitehair, I believe is out
02:16 there as well. Maybe, maybe that's where you're going, but I think it's the NFL draft. I think
02:22 that they have totally convinced themselves. There are one, two, maybe three guys that they
02:26 believe are instant starters, instant impact players, the next Marquise Pouncey, and they're