Dan Snyder says Steelers planned to move up to 16

Posted by Mike Florio on May 16, 2011, 9:42 AM EDT

As it turns out, the deal between the Bears and Ravens wasn’t the only 2011 first-round trade that didn’t happen.

Peter King of SI.com points in his new Monday Morning Quarterback column to comments over the weekend from Redskins owner Daniel Snyder regarding a deal with the Steelers that didn’t go down. Snyder told SiriusXM that the Redskins had a tentative deal in place to slide from No. 16 (after sliding down from No. 10) to No. 31 with the Steelers, who would have moved up into the teens. When the time came to do the deal, the Steelers opted not to proceed, presumably because the guy they were targeting was off the board.

Taken at No. 15? Mike Pouncey, identical twin brother of Steelers center Maurkice Pouncey.

Though it’s possible that the Steelers were eyeballing another player (King things it may have been Nick Fairley; J.J. Watt is a possibility as well), the pre-draft chatter had suggested that coach Mike Tomlin had given the front office an “edict” to move up for Mike Pouncey.
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/05/16/dan-snyder-says-steelers-planned-to-move-up-to-16/