Grade the '09 Titans Draft

A-

Thought this was a great draft. Britt and Marks will make am immediate impact. Cook is a great recieving TE and is a jacked up WR. Ringer replaces Henry thank god. Mouton is a fast physical CB, compared to Finny. Kropog is a OT but from what I read some think he can be an OG and he's a great pass blocker. Edison will compete and had insane numbers last year. Idk about the other 3.

 

I give this draft a C++. Sure we got a good WR in 1st round, but the 2nd was not so excited about. Love cook but the fact that we had to give a 2nd rounder next year is pricey for now. If we got cook in 2nd round and 3rd round we got Marks that would have been better. I like the CB duos, not sure about the OT, and FS. The linebacker looks good.

I was shocked that we drated up to get a player. I haven't seen that happen in a while.

 

Um...

A while being last draft when we traded up to get William Hayes?

Gut

 

We have been saying this at the TOMB for years and I am sure ya'll have been saying this here at gotitans as well. But reynaldo is still around.

Overall good draft B+

I think Britt was good pick and despite what all the experts say about Marks I believe will be a good pick up.

 

Hill is a servicable Nickle/Dime CB, servicable but replacable.

Donnie Nickey is who I want gone. Total embarassment on the field. Fisher loves him for some reason, I suspect polaroids in the safe deposit myself.

 

The Titans know value more than anyone. Realizing no worthy WR would be around later, they made the pick at 30 for a wideout. I figured them to grab a corner-back, but nope! Just because its Jeff Fisher and company, I would say they get a 'B' from me. No 'A' just because I was thinking CB,WR,D-Line. They went the other way, but they know what will make them better than I probably do.

 

A very solid B+.

PROS: This was a Pats-esqe type draft it seems. Lots of specific players targeted and it seems like we got great value on all of them. I'm not sold on Mouton, but I think Marks will be fine. McGrath I think will be special IF he can gain weight and still be a Sideline to Sideline LB. I'm not thrilled about giving up next years second, and I'm EXTRA not thrilled about giving it up to the Pats, but Cook looks like he could be great. The thing about this draft that really makes me happy is actually the Post draft. Dudley Guice and Mitch King are very solid pickups. The fact that undrafteds of this caliber are coming to a team with way too much talent for its roster is a great sign of things to come.

CONS: Our Secondary depth is questionable. Out of the starting four and Vinny Fuller, I don't know about any of our back-ups. I've heard the coaches really like Cary Williams, so here's hoping to that.

I'm also worried about the middle of our front seven on defense. With AL gone, i'm not totally sure we have the size in the tackles to protects Tulloch at MLB. He is by far the weakest link on our defense, but hopefully, he steps up in a big way. OLB depth is also a concern.

Offensively, you can never have enough OL depth, and I honestly think we're only 7 deep up there, Amano, Stewart, Roos, Mawae, Scott, Harris, and...maybe Otto? We need another OL to step up.

Still some concerns I think we'll have to address, but i think we've gotta pretty solid football team post-draft. Can't ask for much more.

 

Reynaldo hill is not "still around". At present he is not under contract for any nfl team as far as i know including the titans.

He stopped being an issue months ago as far as i'm concerned.

 

I'm a huge fan of this draft and the coaching staff will be under pressure to get britt and cook in the mix right away. We used this years 1st and next years 2nd to get those guys we are not going to let them sit and develop.

 

Since the moment they were drafted (Britt & Marks) I was concerned the Titans blew this one. Then after learning more of them, I began feeling a little more secure with the picks. Now media outlets are saying "Titans second-round pick Sen'Derrick Marks has reportedly looked "lost" during offseason practices". Also Titans offensive coordinator Mike Heimerdinger admits he doesn't have a good idea of what first-round receiver Kenny Britt can do yet. [Nashville Tennessean]

"Britt was hobbled by a bad hamstring all spring. "I don't have a feel for this guy," said 'Dinger. "He hasn't played more than five minutes since he's gotten here. I hope he's...staying into it mentally." Britt will jump right into the rotation once he's practicing consistently, but he probably won't start in Week 1". [Nashville Tennessean]

This is pretty much how I initially felt about these two. And now don't feel any better. The closer we come to week-1 we will have a better idea of where these two will fit in but, as of today I wonder; why these two?
I don't follow other teams as close as I do with the Titans and I'm only hoping all of the other rookies coaches have the same type of things to say about their youngsters. I also realize nothing more than mini-camps have happened.