PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh Steelers general manager Kevin Colbert isn’t concerned about the COVID-19 pandemic from altering his team’s preparations for the 2020 draft.

Colbert is well aware there are far larger issues facing the country than whether he and coach Mike Tomlin get to bound from pro day to pro day or bring potential prospects into the team’s facility for interviews. So the Steelers will find a way to deal with it. Just like everyone else.

“What we’re going to do, the visits that we had planned when we got back from owner’s meetings and pro days, we’re going to do video/audio type (interviews) with that player,” Colbert said Tuesday evening. “That’s good access. It’s not as good as sitting down with the guys ... (but) we’ll make the most of it.”

Besides, in a way the restrictions in place in an effort to stem the pandemic’s growth are forcing NFL clubs to take an old-school approach. Colbert pointed what the Steelers did while putting together a dynasty in the 1970s as proof the evaluation process doesn’t necessarily need to be as exhaustive as it is today.

Back then the team’s brain trust - including scouts Bill Nunn and Dick Haley and player personnel director Art Rooney Jr. - simply put their heads together to come up with the players they felt fit into what coach Chuck Noll was building. The results led to four Super Bowls in six years and included the 1974 draft class that produced four Hall of Famers, a number that doesn’t include rookie free agent Donnie Shell, who will be inducted this fall.