The Pittsburgh Steelers drafted John Henry Johnson in 1953, but he elected to go north instead, where he played for the Calgary Stampeders for a year.  Johnson returned to the United States but signed with the San Francisco 49ers. After three years in the Bay Area, he was traded to Detroit, and three years after that, the Steelers traded for him, finally getting the Running Back they took 18^thOverall seven years before.

Dwight White was Pittsburgh’s 1971 Fourth Round Pick from East Texas, and he would play the entirety of his ten-year career wearing the black and yellow.

Le’Veon Bell was the second Running Back taken in 2013 when the Pittsburgh Steelers used the 48^thOverall Pick on the Michigan State Spartan.

After being chosen in the Third Round by the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1994, Jason Gildon was used mostly on Special Teams in his first two seasons.  It was not until Greg Lloyd Sr. went down to injury in 1997 where the Oklahoma State Cowboy became a starting Linebacker.