Call this the 2-minute hurry-up.

The Pittsburgh Steelers and all other teams must make their first picks a little faster this year, thanks to a league effort to speed up the NFL Draft. Teams have only eight minutes per pick in the first round Thursday night, down from 10 minutes previously.

How much difference can those two minutes make?

“It depends on who you ask,” Steelers general manager Omar Khan said Monday. “I’d love to have 10 minutes, but, hey, it’s the same for everybody else. So, eight minutes is what it is. But those 2 minutes …

Mike McCarthy interjected.

“(Coaches) only get 40 seconds to call a play, so come on,” McCarthy said with a smile. “It’s not that bad. We’ll be fine.”

This is Khan’s fourth draft as Steelers general manager but his first with McCarthy as coach. The two spoke Monday at a press conference previewing the seven-round draft that runs Thursday through Saturday.

The Steelers have a new coaching staff for the first time in 20 years, but Khan said the team’s process for preparing for the draft remained largely the same. They have 12 picks overall, starting with No. 21.

“The process has been very similar,” Khan said. “Obviously, we’ve got some pretty good ideas that Mike has shared from other places he’s been. But for the most part, it’s been the same.”

This is the 19th draft for McCarthy as a head coach, who spent 13 years in Green Bay and five in Dallas.

“I don’t want to give up anything on the (Steelers’ draft) board here, but I definitely think there are some very deep positions,” McCarthy said. “It’s always interesting to me when the run starts on those positions, like last year with the offensive line. Usually once it starts, it continues to go for quite some time.”

One aspect McCarthy praised about the Steelers’ draft process was how the team approaches prospect visits.

“I’ve seen the (top) 30 visits utilized three different ways,” McCarthy said. “I think the way we utilized it here was awesome.”

But both Khan and McCarthy cautioned not to read too much into which players visited Pittsburgh and which didn’t. The Steelers’ previous first-round picks under Khan all made in-person visits ahead of the draft, but Khan said, “some of that is probably coincidence.”

McCarthy agreed it wasn’t imperative.

“I can’t speak to the past, but we’re not just bringing in the guys we want to draft,” McCarthy said. “I’ve been three places, and that was never the absolute.”

As for the 2-minute reduction for first-round picks, Khan said it already had an impact. Teams are reaching out to talk before the draft.

“We’ve been having, I think, a little more conversations than we normally have,” Khan said. “Just to kind of set the parameters of what the value is if you move up to this spot or trade back.”

However, Khan said he couldn’t predict whether the increase might foreshadow a busier-than-usual first round.

“I think there’s more conversation,” he said. “But until we get there, I’m not sure you know how it’s going to go.”