If Stockar McDougle signs as a free agent with the Steelers, he will rival Max Starks at the right tackle position in more ways -- or weighs -- than one.

The Detroit Lions list McDougle as 6 feet 6, 335 pounds, but he admits to having weighed 370. Starks, the Steelers' third-round draft choice last season, is 6-7 and is listed at 321 pounds but weighed closer to 360 pounds at Florida. He is probably is closer to 340 today.

McDougle was one of four players who visited the Steelers yesterday and likely the only one they are seriously interested in. Cornerback Ty Law met with team doctors again yesterday and they rejected him for medical reasons. Law, released by the New England Patriots last month, has a fractured foot known as a Lis Franc injury.

Two other players visited and went home -- oft-injured Adrian Klemm, a backup tackle and guard with the New England Patriots, and tight end Marcellus Rivers of the New York Giants. All are unrestricted free agents.

Rivers was a backup with the New York Giants the past four seasons. According to the New York Daily News, he and his wife filed for Chapter 13 bankruptcy last year and stopped payment on his last check to a woman who settled a civil court case with him a year earlier. The woman accused Rivers and three other Oklahoma State players of sexual assault in 1999. Stillwater, Okla., police never charged Rivers or the other players, and the woman sued the police department for not pursuing the case.

McDougle, unlike the other players, stayed overnight and will return to the Steelers' UPMC facility in the morning. They began negotiations with his agent, Drew Rosenhaus.

"There's a huge interest on our behalf," Rosenhaus said. "We're going to do our very best to hopefully make him a Steeler. We'll see what happens."

McDougle, 28, started at right tackle the past two seasons after injuries marred his first two seasons in the league. The Lions drafted him in the first round in 2000 from Oklahoma. McDougle, who will compete with Starks at tackle, began his NFL career as a guard. The Steelers are looking for depth at guard and tackle.

The Lions are not actively pursuing McDougle, who also visited the Miami Dolphins. Apparently the Steelers have not reached their Lions cap limit. Since Kevin Colbert and, later, Ron Hughes left the Lions to join the Steelers' front office, they have signed at least 10 of their former players. Five former Lions were with the Steelers last season. Hughes was Detroit's player personnel head when the Lions drafted McDougle.

Klemm has picked up three Super Bowl rings with the Patriots, but various injuries have prevented him from playing much. He missed all but two games last season with a leg injury.

"I have had some freak injuries," said Klemm, whose father grew up in Homewood and who still has grandparents in the area. "I just have had some kind of bad breaks. I'm healthy right now. ... I'm not a wreck like some people might think that I am."

Klemm came here after visiting the Falcons and said he will visit another team he would not identify.

NOTE -- Rosenhaus would not comment on wide receiver Plaxico Burress until he officially takes over as Burress' new agent. Len Pasquarelli of ESPN reported that Rosenhaus will become Burress' agent after Burress fired his second agent in the past nine months, Michael Harrison. Burress has found good offers difficult to come by in free agency. Colbert, the Steelers' director of football operations, has said they would not rule out Burress' return. "A lot of strange things can happen in free agency," Colbert said. "We never want to say never."