Don't forget about pro bowl safety Donnie Shell who went undrafted in the same year, and was signed by the Steelers as a free agent.

Chuck Noll is the most underrated coach of all time

You got to give it to Bill Nunn for putting together one of the greatest dynasties of all time!

I discovered the Steelers as an 11 year old in Toronto in 1975. I wasn’t a drafted fan, but rather a walk on and I have never looked backed. My timing was perfect to witness one of the greatest NFL dynasty’s in history as a team admirer.

Lambert was small but what he lacked in size he made up for with pure ferocity. Dude was a tackling machine.

In the pre salary cap era, you needed to be perfect in the draft to be a dynasty, the Steelers where able to keep the team together and nobody was able to grab a Deion Sanders or Reggie White free agent to challenge them with

Mike Webster would be played by the actor David Morse in the 2015 movie Concussion...his portrayal and story are heartbreaking and tragic...happy to hear Curt Gowdy anytime...

1:12 It always makes me laugh when they portray the NFL in the 70's. There's always a lit cigarette in an ashtray, bottle of booze with appropriate drinking glass, and all in a room full of smoke.

After drafting 4 future HOFers, Donnie Shell and Randy Grossman as free agents...

Jack Lambert, possibly the greatest middle linebacker ever. Lynn Swann and John stallworth broke the mold for what a receiver was. And the best center in 85 years of steelers history. Yeah steelers put in a cheat code for that draft.

Man that hit Bradshaw took in this video was nasty!!

One of the better sports videos on KZfaq

It's always a pleasure to see how much better protected QB's and WR are now...man all those crazy hard hits to the head is just insane, much respect to all those modern day great gladiators who paved the way.

They don't even talk about Jimmy Allen who was picked before Webster. He left the Steelers after winning two rings then went to the Lions, he was very good for them. His career ended early, but his playing days in Detroit just enhanced that class even more. Charles Davis was a defensive tackle they took in the ninth round and after spending one season with the Steelers and winning the ring he went to the Cardinals and started the next four years for them.

7:25 '...And Lambert works him over.' Great quote.

Wow I just looked it up. There were four future Hall of Famers in one draft for one team. Yep the Steelers really hit the lottery here.

In case y'all wondering here's that legendary draft built 1979 Steelers roster 1967 undrafted -Sam Davis 1968 16th round - Rocky Bleier 1969 1st round- Joe Greene 3rd round- Jon Kolb 10th round- LC Greenwood 1970 1st round- Terry Bradshaw 3rd round- Mel Blount 1971 2nd round- Jack Ham 4th round- Gerry Mullins 4th round- Dwight White 5th round- Larry Brown 11th round-Mike Wagner (Note Ernie Holmes was selected in the 1971 draft Round 8 but was already retired by 1978 with his last season being played at New England) 1972 1st round- Franco Harris 5th round- Steve Furness 1973 1st round- J.T. Thomas 8th round- Loren Toews 1974 1st round- Lynn Swann 2nd round- Jack Lambert 4th round- John Stallworth 5th round- Mike Webster Undrafted- Donnie Shell Undrafted- Randy Grossman 1975 Undrafted- John Banaszak 1976 1st round- Benny Cunningham 2nd round- Mike Kruczek 4th round- Theo Bell 6th round- Gary Dunn 6th round- Jack Delopaine 1977 1st round- Robin Cole 2nd round- Sidney Thornton 3rd round- Tom Beasley 3rd round- Jim Smith 4th round- Ted Petersen 5th round- Steve Courson 5th round- Dirt Winston (note: Tony Dungy went undrafted in 1977 and was picked up by the Steelers. Chuck Noll told him that they were converting him to safety. Tony previously played quarterback. He won the 1978 Superbowl with the Steelers and then was traded to San Francisco. After the 1979 season he got traded again to the New York giants. This time he didn't make the opening day roster and announced his retirement. He became a coaching assistant at University of Minnesota. When Tony was hired in Pittsburgh in 1984 he became the youngest assistant coach in NFL history. He was only 25.) 1978- 1st round- Ron Johnson 3rd round- Craig Colquitt (Yes he's the father of Britton and Dustin Colquitt. 2 current NFL punters. As Britton is the punter for the Browns and Dustin is the punter for the Chiefs.) 4th round- Larry Anderson 8th round- Rick Moser 1979- 1st round- Greg Hawthorne 2nd round- Zack Valentine 6th round- Dwayne Woodruff 6th round- Matt Bahr 8th round- Tom Graves Undrafted- Thom Dornbrook Undrafted- Anthony Anderson (No not the actor Anthony Anderson)

If only my fantasy drafts could go this good.

It’s now 5 . Donnie Shell, a FA who was a LB in college converted to SS. That will never happen again. It’s the NFL equivalent of hitting powerball twice. They also got CB Jim Allen and TE Randy Grossman.

Donnie shell free agent rookie signing in 74 too. Greatest NFL team draft ever

It's true that one of Noll's greatest assets was that, having been with Cleveland, San Diego and Baltimore, he knew what championship teams were supposed to look like and play like. He knew the kind of personnel you needed. And on top of that he and the Steelers had great scouts who would go around to all these little-known schools and find players like Greene, Stallworth, Lambert, et al. It was like a hidden gold mine of talent because most other teams just looked at the traditional big schools like UCLA, Notre Dame and Penn State. However, by the 1980s, the secret was out so the Steelers had a harder time snapping up those unknown talented players because the rest of the league was in on it too.

And now you can add a 5th Steeler to be enshrined in the PFHoFame from that draft. Although Donnie Shell was undrafted, '74 was his rookie season along with Swan Jack Stallworth & Iron Mike!

There's something about USC players and the Steelers! Great outcomes.

Another tip of the cap to Coach Noll AND his staff for recognizing talented, young, DESERVING athletes who just needed a chance..... The result was All-Pros, who elevated their families, modest schools, and their own good names.

The steelers got 4 out of the 5 hall of famers in that draft

The lambert story is EPIC a player diving on asphalt nuff said lol

The fortunes of the Steelers changed when they hired Mr. Nunn because he was a sports writer of a black newspaper and he had access to the game films of all these small black colleges because he would use them to pick his small black college All-Star Team and publish it in his paper for his readers every year. As bad as the Chief was in running the Steelers before Chuck Noll arrived hiring Bill was the best move they made before Dan hired Chuck.

Chuck Noll is a beast who sure can draft

Mel Blunt is an awesome fkn name! Can’t believe I’ve never heard of him before

It's astonishing what can be accomplished with out an AL DAVIS " MY TEAM " in the room!!! I can't count the drafts he burned and what I learned was" nostalgia" is a real winch and will slap ya into reality real quick, so you can imagine what I felt when Mark Davis signed John Gruden again.......crazy to think next year CARR will be gone and then we'll have to wait a year or two to see what come from that particular player.......no wonder it's a ten year proccess for Oakland.........the're trying the Steelers- Patriots way!!! I just wish Gruden didn't go through more QB's than a cheerleader!

Swann & Stallworth both wore #22 in college. I think that's cool!

my America. Love it.

Let's be honest here. The reason why the Steelers were able to get such great value on obviously superior talent in the draft is because a lot of NFL teams in the early 1970s still refused to select black players, or at the least, take too many black players. Noll was hired after he was asked if he was willing to draft black players. When he said he had no problem with that, it sealed the deal. The Steelers were drafting against few other teams NFL who put a priority on drafting black players, many from small black universities.

If only the Steelers drafted like that in this era 🤦‍♂️

And since then Steelers are still drafting great. We draft WR unlike any other team.

I love these nfl film videos, upload more 49ers ones 😭☝🏼

4 round selection ,jersey #45:Jimmy Allen was also a good football player ,playing his first 4 years in Pittsburgh, finishing his career with 31 ints ,he's often seen on the 74 Steelers season highlite ,celebrating with teammates Dwight White, Lynn Swann, and Donnie Shell on the sidelines during the final moments of the Steelers 74 post season victories .He replaced Blount in the 74 conference championship game as a rookie , after Blount routinely gave up enormous yds to raiders wr Clift Branch ,he obvious with assistance from the safeties did a pretty good job , Steelers won the game .

Amazing D line all from little known schools.

The Chiefs had a pretty good draft in 1963 with Buck Buchanan, Ed Budde, Bobby Bell, Jerrel Wilson, and Dave Hill. Of course they had a lot more picks.

Bill Nunn could've been GM of alot of teams if only he wasn't black. Ozzy Newsome speaks highly of Bill because he had a knack for measuring a guys heart not his stats...

As a Browns' fan, this is just sickening. Lambert, for example, played about 30 miles from Cleveland. Drafting 6 picks before the Steelers took Lambert, the Browns selected O tackle Billy Corbett, who never played in an NFL game.

70's Steelers are the Greatest Team in NFL History and here's where they added half of their 10 Hall of Famers! Donnie Shell also arrived in 74 as an undrafted safety!

This could be a HULU documentary.

At 6'5'' and 208 lbs Lambert was slender, but he could hit like a ton of bricks

That’s 5 hof

03:07 Love the low-tech draft. It was probably state of the art at that time.

I'm probably wrong, but not only did the Steelers get 4 HOF'ers in a single draft, I am pretty sure no one else ever got 3. I'm sure there's a few teams that got 2 (like Ravens in '96 with Ogden and Ray-Ray.) Most teams year in year out don't draft any future HOF'ers. Kudos Steelers scouts of the '70's.

Part of the philosophy was to keep the video of John Stallworth. That's how they knew he'd still be available when they took him. He could have been a higher draft pick elsewhere and had made more money. But the money is fleeting and he'd probably rather have the four rings.

They probably won't mention that they got the idea of looking at smaller colleges from Tom Landry

I would still lobby for L.C. Greenwood in the HOF and then that about covers it for the Steelers of the '70s. I would like to see Andy Russell but I just don't know that he had enough credentials despite being a 7 time Pro Bowler. Dwight White, Glen Edwards, and Mike Wagner didn't have a long enough period of excellence to even be considered for HOF and ditto goes for the offensive side of the team not in.

Legendary

They managed to get Stallworth by "misplacing" the film on him when someone else asked for it. Imma Steelers fan all the way but that strikes me as funny. They mentioned "When we find it we'll get it to you right away"

@7:05 The Steelers 4th Super Bowl happened in 1980

is there a name for the song that plays starting at 7:37 ?

Awesome video!

LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO STEELERS💛🖤💛🖤💛🖤💛🖤💛🖤💛🖤💛🖤💛🖤

Go Black&Gold..💣💛

Wish athletes today showed more love to hbcu

I delivered news papers to a few of the older steelers when I was young, Cliff Stout was Cool. He only got the Saturday paper. If he was home when I was delivering he would come out with ice tea or lemonade and we sit on the steps in between the 2 sets of townhouse buildings there were and drink our drinks and bullshit for awhile. They were all pretty cool. Banasak lived with other steeler, can't remember who, but after the superbowl against the rams they came out with poster and signed football. I got all excited cause I thought I was getting them both but they gave me the team poster and both autographed it by their picture and when I went get the ball he told me it was for ( can't remember her name) the girl that lived above them. She was Hot blonde. Damn, I wanted the ball so I was little disappointed. I think it was banasak, and once again can't remember the other guy, that was the tool it took on me, I really wanted that ball. I think I even asked him if I could have it instead of poster but he told me it was for the girl. Don't blame him now that I'm older, she was hot in a natural way, not trying to be but was. But back then I was 14 or 15 I think and felt like he did wrong not giving me the ball and giving it to a "girl".

What a draft

Randy Grossman TE went undrafted too

7:09 what is that instrumental???

So why exactly is Pittsburgh’s deviant activity surrounding Stallworth’s college film looked back on as cute and mischievous gamesmanship? If Bill Belichick pulled something like that today, there’d be a congressional hearing about it.

Steelers still pull guys from smaller schools. Especially love MAC guys now.

After hearing about this, I fault Jimmy Johnson a little bit LESS for doing what he did with Herschel Walker. I have to. This was brilliance on the part of the Steelers, and I think a lot of people who were/are still salty about the Cowboys in the '90s should see this and realize that Jimmy was just dragging the Cowboys into the modern era with what he did. Not a fan of either team I am, but it just occurred to me that underhanded stuff to get players in the draft was being done by ALL teams. Period. Still is. And probably will always be. The Steelers holding onto film of a player just so they could draft him...merely following in the footsteps of other great teams and great scouting departments.

The raiders were before the Steelers in terms of targeting southern college

Steelers basically went nuclear and had the best haul of all time

I want a full video

Okay yeah... But what's the jam playing from 4:15 until 5:07 ?

John Dorsey and the Cleveland Browns.

3:59 kinda wish I lived back when u were allowed to do that.

Chuck Noll: Can we draft Stallworth yet? Pittsburgh War Room: No Chuck not yet. Chuck Noll: You guys suck, I bet Dallas would let me draft Stallworth

PITTSBURGH STEELERS LET'S GO

With these steelers their talking about and others that came from other unknown schools, I'm just wondering, If the steelers didn't draft them would they been drafted by other teams or would they never played in the NFL???

This Steeler team was also the first to systematically implement the use of anabolic steroids as a team. Fact.

Who was first Steeler HOF player drafted AFTER 1974? Rod Woodson in 87?

Mike Webster RIP

Imagine if they'd had a 3rd pick

So they kept footage on a player under wraps so only they could draft them imagine trying to pull that in todays nfl if it happened to the pats they’d get a slap on the wrist and pats fans would act like martyrs

Interesting video, but I don’t see anything in it, or from the draft results for the whole NFL from 1974, that suggested Pittsburgh prevailed because they focused on small black colleges. Small black colleges were already known to produce outstanding players. Just look at the top 5 picks in the 1974 draft for example, 2 were from Tennessee St. You also have quite a few players from small black colleges in the first 3 rounds, and some were complete busts, too, just like from other colleges. Lambert, Webster, and Swann did not attend small black colleges either. The video doesn’t say anything to me about Pittsburgh’s approach, except that they got incredibly lucky. One thing interesting is that they pulled in these future HOF players while using picks in the lower half of the rounds. NFL penalizes success through lower drafting position, so it is harder to maintain, so that aspect is impressive. But how was it achieved? it seems like luck is the best answer. Next year, my team the Bears, continued their success from smallblack colleges, by drafting Walter Payton (previous years they got Waymond Bryant and Wally Chambers). But this wasn’t a special strategy, it was primarily because the Bears sucked and picked at higher draft positions.

What happened in the 80s?

So the Steelers' scouting department are legends... for basically copying AFL scouting policy?

at 349 that guy would of been suspended today

What is this from? Is it a 30 for 30 or something?

Steelers still draft that good today

Gee so what happened to Mike Webster?

Yall know Brady has more than every one of them whilst playing, and Belichick literally has double?

Pittsburgh like always cheated, but don't tell that story. Back in the day, the film was supposed to be passed on to each team. They told other teams they had lost the Stallworth film, and there was no backup film. They knew they could draft him late. Yeah, this will never happen again with all the media there is today. Once cheaters always cheaters!

71 was as important.

Lambert Swann Stallworth Bradshaw Polamalu Randle - El Hines Ward Roethlisberger Smith-Schuster Conner Washington Shazier Watt Bell Brown Harrison "The Beard" *ONLY REAL STEELERS FAN KNOWS HE IS LMFAO

And my packers took tony madrich

And they said were the inferior ones

What really made the Steelers great was their team doctor filling up the players with steroids. It's amazing what drugs can do for a draft class.

1974 Pittsburgh Steelers have best season ever with 10 wins 3 loss and 1 tied clinched their first of four times Super Bowl champion brought the Dynasty in the 70s

This what Mayock and Gruden will replicate. You heard from me first. #RAIDERS #RAIDERNATION #RN4L

Believe it or not, I was a Rams and Steelers fan...but just a little more towards the Rams because I live in L.A.

3rd greatest dynasty in the history of the NFL, after the patriots and 49ers

They discovered steroids.

First

Ahh yes, the steroids but when real football and man played it