Will Pittsburgh Score Saturday?

Either Jeff Saturday's agent is doing a good job of raising the Colts price to keep the soon-to-be free agent or the veteran center really wants to come to Pittsburgh.

Saturday's agent told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review that Saturday would love to replace his blue and white with black and gold. Whether that is a true sentiment or simply a way to try to jack up Saturday's price is something we'll figure out over the next couple of days.

But if Saturday does come to Pittsburgh, it would be a big step forward for a team that will likely sit out most of the free-agent spending spree.

Signing Saturday would ensure that the Steelers can go into the draft with no pressing needs. The team would still need to add some youth on the offensive line in the draft, but they would know that barring the loss of Willie Colon to a high tender, the team would go into training camp with Max Starks at left tackle, Colon at right tackle and some combination of Saturday, Justin Hartwig, Kendall Simmons and Darnell Stapleton at guard and center.

Long-term, Saturday isn't what the Steelers need. He's a little undersized (6-2, 295 pounds) and if he does have to slide over to guard because of Hartwig, he'll will be playing out of his ideal position. And beyond everything else, he's 33 years old and likely doesn't have many great seasons ahead of him.

But all of that means very little when you're talking about the Steelers chances of repeating as Super Bowl champs. In the last four years, Saturday has been to two Pro Bowls and been named a Pro Bowl alternate in the other two years. No one on the Steelers' current offensive line is anywhere close to Pro Bowl caliber. Many of the Steelers' pass protection problems came from getting confused on picking up stunts and blitzes, Saturday would go a long way to fix that.