Carson Bruener
Pittsburgh SteelersPos LB
Updated August 24, 2026
Draft & College
Round 7, pick 226 · Pittsburgh Steelers · 2025
Washington (Big Ten)
Taken
#226
where he actually went
Consensus board
282nd
average of the public big boards that spring
Our college model
#976
among LB in our college data
He went about where consensus had him.
In college · 2021-2024 · 49 games
295 tackles, 9 TFL, 1.0 sacks, 5 INT
Covers the college seasons in our data, which does not always reach back to a player's first year.
What this pick usually becomes
Of the 549 players taken as a late Day 3 pick between 2012 and 2021, 15% earned a second contract and 9% became starters. The median one started 0 career games.