The Pittsburgh Steelers must do this to return to the Super Bowl #5

It was great to see the Pittsburgh Steelers resign Casey, and it looks like and sounds like there's a good chance Ryan Clark will resign, but that doesn't help the fact that the core of this team is getting older. Have you noticed that the Patriots haven't won a Super Bowl the last few years. Though I will not admit the quarterback on that team is the best, I will admit that he's pretty good. Good enough to win a couple of Super Bowls. But, a quarterback is just one part of a team. The reason the Pats haven't won a Super Bowl lately with a Super Bowl caliber quarterback is that they got old and lost that depth that they had during those Super Bowl years. Unfortunately, I see the same thing happening to the Steelers with their D-Line, Cornerbacks, Linebackers and Safeties. They need a good draft this year to improve their depth.

Ziggy Hood showed last year that he may be able to take over a spot on the D-Line and reclaiming Sonny Harris may have been a positive eventually. After that the depth is a bunch of 30 somethings, Travis Kirschke, Chris Hoke and Nick Eason. Believe it or not it is hard to find an athletic 300 pound guy, and even harder to find one of them that is a quality defensive lineman.

At Cornerback same story, Ike Taylor and Deshea Townsend are the senior members of the group. These guys still give quality minutes and Ike is still shutting down the other team's number 1 guy, but Deshea is no longer that guy that can play the whole game. In fact if he is around this year there's a good chance he'll be a Safety. William Gay is a younger guy in the cornerback position and after playing well 2 seasons ago it looked like he would take over the number 2 spot after the departure of McFadden. He got burnt time after time this past season and was finally replaced in the starting role by Townsend. The cornerback position does at least have a few other youngsters in Joe Burnett and Keenan Lewis, but the jury is still out on them.

At Safety there's Troy, Tyrone Carter, Ryan Clark hopefully, and Ryan Mundy. The Pittsburgh Steelers either need Mundy to grow quickly into a quality Safety or find one in the draft, especially if they can't keep Clark. Even if Tyrone and Ryan are around this year Tyrone is 33 and Ryan is 30. 2 out of 4 in their 30's.

At Linebacker James Farrior and James Harrison are in their 30's, Farrior 35 and Harrison 31. Farrior still provides quality play, but for how much longer. There are not many players still contributing a lot at 35. Harrison, at least is a young 31 since it took him a while to be a regular starter. So he doesn't have the miles on his legs that most 31 year olds do. They do have the 2 young studs at linebacker in Woodley and Timmons and Keyaron Fox played well last year. It wouldn't hurt to pick up another quality Linebacker to play behind Farrior, though and take over in a year or 2.

So, the 5th thing the Steelers must do to return to the Super Bowl is add some depth in these positions to spell the older guys and eventually take over. Supposedly this is one of the deepest drafts in recent history and one of the deepest positions is Defensive Line. So it wouldn't hurt for the Steelers to pick up one or two D-Linemen. Hopefully the can restock a few other postions with some depth, Safety anyone.