Titans 1st pick: DE Carlos Dunlap

Griffen had 8 sacks last season.
Dunlap had 9. Graham had 10.5.

I'm not sure 2.5 sacks difference means diddly squat but potential certainly does. I guess we should draft Austin Lane from Murry State. 6'6, 270, had 11 sacks (actually he might be as good as some of these big name guys in the NFL).

 

I don't mind Griffen as much as I do Dunlap. Yes 9 sacks is solid but 5 came in two of his fourteen games so in the other 12 games he had four sacks. 1/3 of those sacks came against Mississippi State. That is inconsistent and he only had 34 total tackles in 14 games. Along with being inconsistent he has had poor interviews and doesn't seem to have great instincts/high football IQ. Classic boom or bust but I'm leaning towards bust with his poor attitude and work ethic.

Griffen put up similar stats with 7 sacks and 43 total tackles in 13 games. He started off very hot but failed to record a sack in the last 6 games. they share many of the same traits like inconsistent, better athletes then football players, run ins with the law, ect. I do like Griffen more then Dunlap though I think he could worked with into something good under the right coaching like Washburn. Dunlap not so much IMO.

 

Dunlap scares me. He seems like he's got a lot of baggage and he'd be a boom or bust. Give me someone like Graham any day, someone who has a KVB like motor and will give you 100% every play. Plus, did you watch the Senior Bowl? The dude was unblockable!

 

I don't know enough about these guys and didn't see them play. But I have heard/read/seen nothing but bad things about Dunlap.

This part about Graham sounds very enticing. Hope he's still on the board, I've seen a couple of mocks that have him going in the final spots in the 1st, some as high as 15.

 

If we go DE; please let it be Graham. He's the only one I'm remotely interested in and please let us grab him ONLY if we trade down and recoup a 2nd.

 

heres all im gonna say...plenty of people on this bored cried their eyes out when we drafted chris johnson and I was skeptical with drafting an unknown running back...but he turned out...decent. So we'll just have to see after free agency, and generally any player who was a beast on the gators in the sec is gonna be pretty solid and not just a workout warrior. Character wise, I dont like him, and Im a seminole so veto on the pick haha

 

Many of us cried our eyes out when we drafted Chris Henry, too.

 

You guys stopped crying??? I'm still in tears

 

The Brit-man is one of the best draft signings I can remember this team making in the recent years (sans you-know-who that has name that starts with "C" )

He has the ability to be a top 20 WR someday in this league considering his rookie performance. I can't wait to see how he develops.

We will hopefully solve our LB prob but please dun' blame one of the diamonds in the Titan's rough. It makes me a sad panda. :(

 

Just say NO to Dunlap!!!