Do the Titans trade up (from #33) to nab Nkemdiche?

You want to think this through and try again? Trade #33 for nothing this year...only to get about the same draft pick next year?

 

What read flags (emphasis on the plural) would you be referring to? The only one I am aware of is the incident where he was caught with synthetic MaryJ at a party...injuring himself in the process (probably was horseplaying with a teammate and fell out off the balcony).

As far as on the field...every single player is going to have some negative comments about their game (what you refered to as another red flag?). Even Tunsil, who was projected No.1 overall. His happens to be about consistency. All of these things are the reason why he is even in the late 1st to early 2nd rd discussion...rather than in the Top 5. Early on in the draft process, he was widely considered in the Top 10, but the concerns have dropped him down.

It's a risk vs reward equation, and one I think is heavily in favor of the reward, late in the 1st Rd. I agree, there will likely be a good DT there still in the 2nd....but I don't think anyone apart from Buckner or Bosa has his impact potential or ceiling.

Dick LeBeau probably had his way in getting those defensive FA acquisitions, recently. I wonder what his view of Nkemdiche is? If anyone can get 100% out of the player, he can.

 

You hear that about a lot of DL? Some of that has to do with them getting constant double and triple teams. I suspect that is why he went off on Bama and may have been more silent in other games. Bama thought their 4-5* OL could handle him one on one. They found out the hard way, that they couldn't.

I remember the same criticisms about Tennessee Vol DT's Albert Haynesworth and John Henderson, when they were drafted well over a decade ago. People scoff at Haynesworth, but when he was healthy, he was a difference-maker for the Titans. Nkemdiche would play hard for LeBeau.