Titans RD 2 Failures

Tank was good, til he got injured.

 

If you think the 2nd round selections are bad, don't look at the 3rd round selections...

 

Man, makes me miss those glory days when we were a elite foundation in the AFC. And speaking of McNair and Bennett, what a great teammate McNair was. I remember when Bennett dropped that 4th down pass against the Pats in the playoffs, McNair was the only one that went over to comfort him, and he said something like "you're still one of my go to receivers" or something along the lines of that.

 

Pretty pathetic Lendale couldn't keep his weight down, could've been a real good one.

 

What he said. Odom has been a solid player for the Bengals also. I wouldn't say our 2nd rounders are HORRIBLE, but they're nothing amazing either (besides Rolle and Roos).

 

Actually the 2nd round picks were darn good since the team moved to Nashville. At least three guys on the list, Calico, Odom and LaBoy were struck by injury which limited them. Tank Williams was a starter from day one and was a good player in our system at the time until he was slowed by injury. Dyson was a solid #2 CB and Rolle was a pro bowler. Even Thornton was probably a little better than average.

I'm guessing the league average on 2nd round picks isn't any better and although you always like to at least get a starter with a 2nd round pick I wouldn't doubt the league average is close to 50%. When you have pro-bowl guys like Rolle and Roos (gettng a real good LT in the 2nd is huge) you are really beating the odds.

Now I do think people over value draft picks in general because of the hype. MR has just about a perfect record getting guys in the 1st round. So it makes perfect sense to me trade our 2nd and 3rd round picks to mvoe up into the 1st anytime we can do so. I'm also an advocate of trading 2nd round picks or later for proven players at positions of need and wish we were more active in bringing in RFAs. The bottom line is when you run the numbers and look at the draft historically the probabilities make sense especially when you get out of the 1st round. Since we need a QB even the 1st round picks can be hard to pick for that position.

 

I was curious how other teams 2nd round picks went, so I googled it. Did 3 random teams, figured I would share. I would say Colts are average, Packers above average, Fins below average.

Packers:
2010 - Mike Neal
2009 - Clay Matthews
2008 - Jordy Nelson
Brian Brohm
Patrick Lett
2007 - Brandon Jackson
2006 - Daryn Colledge
Greg Jennings
2005 - Nick Collins
2004 - NO 2nd Rounder
2003 - NO 2nd Rounder
2002 - NO 2nd Rounder
2001 - Robert Gerguson
2000 - Chad Clifton

Colts:
2010 - Pat Angerer
2009 - Fili Moala
2008 - Mike Pollak
2007 - Tony Ugoh
2006 - Tim Jennings
2005 - Kelvin Hayden
2004 - Bob Sanders
2003 - Michael Doss
2002 - Larry Tripplett
2001 - Idrees Bashir
2000 - Marcus Washington

Dolphins:
2010 - Koa Misi
2009 - Pat White
Sean Smith
2008 - Phillip Merling
Chad Henne
2007 - John Beck
Samson Satele
2006 - No 2nd
2005 - Matt Roth
2004 - No 2nd
2003 - Eddie Moore
2002 - No 2nd
2001 - Chris Chambers
2000 - Tood Wade

 

Clearly pass interference and I consider this just as big of a blown call as the missed delay of game in the Ravens playoff game. We would've won the Super Bowl both times if the refs could make simple calls.

Yea, Bennett still should've caught that pass, but he was clearly interfered with.