CBS Sports is critical of one of the Titans' draft selections, but their reasoning is terrible
The Tennessee Titans' draft didn't go as anyone expected. That's thanks to the trade that sent wide receiver AJ Brown to the Philadelphia Eagles and several draft picks back to the Titans. Tennessee created a void on their roster by trading Brown, but they also received more draft capital. That extra draft capital allowed the […]
The Tennessee Titans' draft didn't go as anyone expected.
That's thanks to the trade that sent wide receiver AJ Brown to the Philadelphia Eagles and several draft picks back to the Titans.
Tennessee created a void on their roster by trading Brown, but they also received more draft capital.
That extra draft capital allowed the Titans to draft Brown's replacement in Arkansas wide receiver Treylon Burks. It also gave Tennessee an extra third-round pick (No. 90 overall) which they used to trade up to select Liberty quarterback Malik Willis (No. 86 overall).
Overall, most analysts seem to agree that the Titans had a solid draft, despite having to trade away one of their best players in Brown.
There's one pick that Tennessee made, however, that CBS Sports' Josh Edwards didn't like.
And his reasoning is absolutely terrible.
Edwards was critical this week of the Titans' selection of Tennessee Vols defensive back Theo Jackson in the sixth round.

Here's why Edwards wasn't a big fan of the pick:
The decision to trade star wide receiver A.J. Brown can be critiqued from sunset to sun down, but the Titans found good value through most of the draft. Jackson was the most questionable pick for Tennessee simply because little was known about him prior to the selection. There is nothing wrong with adding depth to the secondary late on Day 3, though.
Edwards' reasoning essentially boils down to "little was known about him", which is one of the worst reasons I think I've ever heard for an analyst not to like a draft pick.
Now, I thought Jackson was going to go undrafted, but that's mostly because mock drafts were projecting him to go undrafted. Mock drafts, as we all should know by now, aren't representative of how front offices view players. That was extremely evident this year when most mock drafts had multiple quarterbacks going in the first round (only one quarterback, Pittsburgh's Kenny Pickett, was actually selected in the first round).
As for Jackson, he has decent speed, he's versatile and he played in 56 games in the SEC while making 24 starts. Landing a defensive back with that kind of SEC experience in the later rounds of the draft is almost always a good decision.
No one knows if Jackson will become a key player for the Titans. But if he doesn't, it won't be because "little was known about him" before the draft.
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