Locked On Titans - Daily Podcast On The Tennessee Titans - Tennessee Titans 2023 NFL Draft Grades: High-Risk Athletes, Offensive Playmakers & Identity Crisis

Episode Date: April 30, 2023

The Tennessee Titans completed the 2023 NFL Draft and it is time to evaluate how they performed. Tyler goes through each and every pick to assign a grade and breakdown the players' skillsets, fit in the scheme and athletic profile. Also, a grade for the Titans overall draft performance is given to assess the Titans' picks, trades and overall philosophy.Follow Tyler on Twitter @TicTacTitansFollow the show on Facebook @LockedOnTitansPodSubscribe to the Locked On Titans YouTube channel:https://www.youtube.com/c/LockedOnTitans/videosSupport Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!Built BarBuilt Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKEDON15,” and you’ll get 15% off your next order.FanDuelMake Every Moment More. Don’t miss the chance to get your No Sweat First Bet up to ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS in Bonus Bets when you go FanDuel.com/LOCKEDON.FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Titans fans, I couldn't give the Titans an A grade for the 2023 NFL Draft, but I'll tell you what grade I did give them, plus give a grade for each selection on today's edition of the Locked on Titans podcast. Let's get it. You are Locked on Titans, your daily Tennessee Titans podcast, Part of the Locked On Podcast Network, your team every day. Welcome to the Locked on Titans podcast. I am your host, Tyler Rowland, Titans fans, doing draft grades on today's show. I'm going to give an overall grade for the entire performance for the Titans throughout the draft,

then give a grade for every single selection individually as well. Before we get into my draft grades, do want to thank you guys for making the Locked On Titans podcast your first listen every day, Monday through Friday, Tennessee Titans content on all platforms, all year long and always for free. Make sure that you get subscribed and stay subscribed to the Locked On Titans podcast,

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We're going to continue breaking down the draft class throughout the next few weeks. We got rookie minicamps. We got OTAs. We got regular mandatory minicamp right We got OTAs. We got regular mandatory minicamp right around the corner with training camp in the summer. A lot of content coming your way. I'm going to be doing deep dives on every prospect as well. You won't want to miss anything I got planned for you guys. But diving into my grades here, like I said at the start,

I couldn't give the Titans an A for this draft class where I ultimately settled was a B plus for the Titans. I like the fact that they got all athletic players. They obviously were looking to get guys who had great athletic profiles. And I think they got a lot of guys who will probably be better or more important or serve a bigger role for the team in 2024 and beyond than they will just next year. But there are a couple of guys in here who could probably help the Titans this upcoming year in 2023 as well. So like I talked about on yesterday's show, I want to see the Titans really commit to a direction here at some point.

And like I saw with them in free agency, like I kind of saw with them in this draft, they seem to not really want to dive all in to helping the team this year. but they're not diving all in to helping the team in the future as well. So I see them kind of riding the fence a little bit, and although I liked most of the picks as players and prospects, I had to go with a B-plus for my overall grade, but it'll make more sense as we get into the individual grades for each selection. And first, we got to start with the first round pick, and that's Peter Skowronski, the offensive lineman out of Northwestern, 6'4", 315 pounds.

He's got great strength. He plays with fantastic technique in terms of keeping his balance with his feet, using his hands to fend off defenders and pass rushers. Really good with all the technical aspects and only stands to get even better at all the different things he can add to his toolbox as he turns into a pro. He's got real agile feet as well for a guy who's so strong.

He's a versatile guy who could probably play outside at tackle, could play inside at guard. That's going to be a big conversation with Skowronski and his fit with the team. Is he going to be a guard? Is he going to be a tackle? He's got some arm length concerns, 32 and a quarter inch arms. That's pretty small for NFL standards to play offensive tackle. So he may long-term be a guard for the Titans, but he has the potential to be a pro bowl or an all pro level guard that is a long-term starter

for five to eight years, maybe even 10 years if the Titans get really lucky. So I really like to pick up Peter Skowronski. I know a lot of people weren't satisfied because it seems like a safe selection for the Titans. But like I said, the night that it happened, Rand Carthon hit a double. Maybe he didn't hit the home run, but I really like what he was able to do. And again, I go back to the Titans are looking for athletes in this draft class. RAS is relative athletic score. It's a great measure of basically all of the different aspects of athleticism. You can see on the screen if you're watching right here,

measures hand size, arm length, height, weight, how much you bench, your 40-yard dash, 20-yard split, 10-yard split, shuttle, three-cone, vertical, broad jump, all that stuff. And it gives you a collective score. Well, Peter Skowronski's score was a 9.30, and that was him as an offensive tackle. If you judge him as a guard, he got a 9.90. So an elite athlete, if you judge him against offensive tackles, he was ranked 91st out of 1,294 other offensive tackles since 1987. So again, the Titans are looking for great athletes in this draft, but with Skowronski, you get a guy who's a day one starter

who can come in and play on the Titans offensive line right away, whether it be tackle, whether it be guard. He's a guy who's, again, a really good athlete. And like I said, I see him as a long-term starter for the team with pro bowl to all pro potential. So really like to pick a Peter Skowronski to kind of start things off for the Titans. The Titans actually ended up drafting all offensive players for the first time since the NFL expanded to seven rounds in the draft in 1994, I believe it was. So an offensive draft for the Titans started off with Peter Skowronski.

Now, of course, we got to shift gears, talk about what happened in the mid rounds on day two for the Tennessee Titans, including a trade up for Will Levis. The Peter Skowronski pick, just so I'm on the record in case I missed it, that's an A minus for me. The Titans didn't get to do the home run play, trade up for the quarterback, lock that down, but they were able to get a solid offensive lineman in the first round at pick number 11, a blue player.

That's an A minus for me. So we're going to go over my grades for the rest of the picks for the Titans. We'll start with day two next. We'll finish off with day three as well. Before we get into all that, do want to tell you guys about the best tasting protein bars in the galaxy from our

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And of course, you can always go to Bilt.com and place your order there. Make sure that you check out the best tasting protein bars ever. Bilt Bars, you can thank me later. Titans fans we are going to continue today's edition of the Locked On Titans podcast giving out my draft grades for the Titans 2023 NFL draft performance. I gave the class a B-plus overall as a whole.

We talked about Peter Skowronski. I gave that pick an A-minus. Solid base hit there, getting a double. Not the home run that would get you an A-plus, but a really solid pick for the Titans, an A-minus for Peter Skowronski. We're going to continue. It is time to dive into the day two grades for the Titans. And of course, that includes the trade up for Will Levis. A big time move for the Titans.

Going to have ramifications for years to come. First and foremost, the trade itself. The Titans took pick 41, pick 72, and a third rounder in 2024, and they traded it for pick 33 and pick 81. So essentially, they move up eight spots in the second round, move down nine spots in the third round, and give up a third rounder next year. Overall, I don't think the price is that bad. It's really not that bad of a price to pay if Will Levis does pay off for the Titans. But at the end of the day,

when you talk about my grade for this pick, which ultimately is a B-, I gave a B- to the move to go get Will Levis, if the Titans would have been able to pick Will Levis at 41 and not sacrifice any other capital and not move up eight spots, I probably would have given it a B+. Even though I'm not high on Levis as a prospect, I can understand why the Titans are making this move.

I mean, he really reminds me of Ryan Tannehill. The way he looks, the way he talks, the way he answers questions, the way he plays out on the field, he reminds me of a younger, more athletic version of Ryan Tannehill. That's basically what I see when I see Will Levis. And I can understand why the Titans would want to just put Levis in to fill in for Tannehill

and try to kind of keep what they got going and just do it cheaper, do it younger. I understand that. But with the trade, giving up a third-round pick in 2024 when you don't have a lot of picks in 2024 as it is, dropping down from 72 to 81 made them miss out on a lot of really good players. So even though I'm okay and I understand why the Titans would do the Levis move, giving up additional capital and drafting a prospect I'm okay and I understand why the Titans would do the Levis move.

Giving up additional capital and drafting a prospect that I wasn't super high on coming into the draft, I got to give that a B-. Now that could work out. And if Will Levis works out, that will look really dumb. My grade will look stupid. It'll be an A all around to get a player like that in the second round. But right now, all I can go off of is how I feel right now. And Will Levis is a B- for me.

But at the end of the day, the guy has an incredibly quick release. It really does look like Aaron Rodgers' release with how quick it is and how confined the motion is. He has incredible velocity on his throws with great arm strength. Not only can he throw it far down the field, but he can throw it into tight windows, which we talk about arm strength like all that matters is throwing deep. But what really matters is being able to get the ball into tight windows

in the NFL where that's all you can throw into most of the time. As I mentioned, he is an incredible scheme fit, man. He was running that play-action style in college, something he's very familiar with, making checks at the line of scrimmage. Malik Willis had never been under center in his entire career when the Titans drafted him. Will Levis is the opposite of that. He has played in a system like what the Titans do for most of his college career, especially during his time at Kentucky when he was under offensive coordinator Liam Cohen in 2021, who came from

Sean McVay's coaching staff. So he's been running a pro-style offense. He's not one of these guys who's constantly getting the play call off the board on the sideline in college. He's running real plays, calling real plays, checks, audibles, checks with me, all of that different stuff. He's doing that. So not only is it a scheme fit in terms of the plays that they run,

but it's a scheme fit in terms of what they're going to ask Levis to do as the quarterback of the team operationally. That's really important. It's not something that people talk about a lot. Levis is also really tough, man. Like, he'll play through injury. He'll stand in the pocket and take a shot while he delivers the ball. And you know that Mike Vrabel loves that.

He's incredibly competitive. I don't know if you guys saw the video of him when his name was getting announced on TV. A little cringy, if you ask me. A little performative, if I'm honest. But he's an intense dude, okay? He wants to be the best. That matters.

So all that matters. He's a guy who can run the ball as well. It can be used as a power runner and goal line situations. I don't think he's quite Josh Allen as a runner. Like some people try to act like, and he's definitely not like Lamar Jackson or Jalen hurts or anybody like that. But I think he could maybe be like a Daniel Jones. He could be similar to that in terms of that running ability. Not quite the explosive guy that Josh Allen is, but maybe just a tick under that.

He's a reckless runner, though, so I hope he doesn't run too much. Now, there's a lot to clean up with Will Levis. Mechanics, timing between when he's throwing it and what his feet are doing, decision-making, making sure that he's not bailing on certain parts of the progression too early. There's a lot to fix there. But I don't think that it's such a work in progress that he can't start this year.

I think Will Levis could start this year. And again, we go back to being a good athlete. Levis didn't register an RAS score because he didn't do like 40-yard dash and three cone and some of the agility drills. He didn't do some of the running drills, so he didn't get an RAS score, but people have kind of mocked what it would have been based on high school stats and things like that, and he probably would have been around a 9.5.

So Levis is a much better athlete than people are giving him credit for. I think he should start right away. Quite honestly, I think he's ready to play. I think there's a lot of development, but it should be done while he's playing. He's mentally ready to run an NFL offense, in my opinion. And with how much the Titans traded for him, you need to do that and see what you got from him. And if you're in a position to take quarterback again next year, then you do it again next year, you know, because Levis is either going to be worth the pick and the Titans are going to win games or Levis is going to be as bad as some people think he is. And then you're going to be in position to get Caleb Williams or Drake May. And then you do it again.

And you keep swinging at quarterback every year until you find one. So to me, again, a B minus for Will Levis as a pick. But I do understand why they did it. Moving forward here, Tajay Spears. A lot of people don't like this pick because Spears doesn't have an ACL in his knee. He's got some arthritis issues in his knee. People just think he's not going to be able to ever play, but it's not like he just didn't have an ACL in his knee the moment the Titans drafted him.

The kid's been playing college football like this. He hasn't torn an ACL since 2020. Now, he had one in high school, and he had one in college in 2020 in the same knee. And that's what people are saying. He's got tendonitis or arthritis or whatever in that knee and he's got no ACL and that'll limit his long-term potential. Like everybody was saying, is he going to make it past his rookie contract? Well, he's a running back. I don't care if he makes it past his rookie contract. As a matter

of fact, I don't care how good he is. The Titans should never give a second contract to a running back ever again after Derrick Henry is gone. They have to evolve. You can't have high paid running backs in the NFL and be consistently successful. It's just not a smart way to build a team. The Titans have Derrick Henry

$16 million as a cap hit this year. That is a disaster when you look at how winning teams work in the NFL. I mean, the Eagles are paying like $3 million total for their running back room, and they have DeAndre Swift and Rashad Penny and Kenny Gainwell. They have a really good running back room, a really good committee, and they're paying pennies for it when the Titans have one guy for $16 million. It's such a disadvantage.

So I never want to give a running back a second contract ever again anyways. So if Tajay Spears can only play four years and then his knee is too bad, then fine. Then fine. He gets to play as long as he possibly could with his medical. The Titans get the best of his career. And then they just get a new running back again in the mid rounds.

That's going to be what the team is going to do going forward. They might draft a running back in every draft. One in the mid round, next year late rounds. One in the mid round and then you just churn through them. That's what the trends in the NFL have taught us. So that's my expectation. So throw away the knee injury for just a second and get excited about this guy. 5'9", 200 pounds, running back out of Tulane, quick cuts, incredibly agile, make guys miss in the hole.

He's an explosive runner in terms of his acceleration. He can be a three-down running back, according to Rand Carthon, and I agree with that. This year, he can be a complimentary backdown running back, according to Rand Carthon, and I agree with that. This year, he can be a complimentary back on third downs to Derrick Henry, spell Derrick Henry every now and then. He's a much more talented runner than Hassan Haskins. He's a much more talented runner than Dontrell Hilliard. So, you get an improvement on the Hilliard role. Again, we look at RAS. Spears is probably the worst guy that role. Again, we look at RAS. Spears is probably the worst guy that the Titans drafted.

You look at RAS scores. He was 435th out of 1,745 guys. That's still pretty high. I mean, you're still pretty high on the list when you look at that. So listen, everybody's hating on the Tajay Spears pick. I don't agree with it. If the Titans get four good years out of him and then he can't play anymore because of the knee, then that's perfectly fine.

It's time to get a new running back anyway. I don't need him on a second contract to make the pick worth it. He's going to be a guy who can spell Derrick Henry, maybe take over for Derrick Henry as the lead, not the workhorse, but the lead back in a committee next year. And this year, he's a great replacement for Dontrell Hilliard as a third down back, who's also very good in pass protection. So I like the Tajay Spears pick quite a bit. I think the panic about the knee is a little overblown personally. But with that in mind,

we're going to move forward. We're going to talk about day three, the last three picks of the draft for the Tennessee Titans, an A- for Peter Skowronski, a B- for Will Levis, a B- for Tajay Spears. Those are my grades so far for the picks that the Titans have made with a B- as my overall grade for the draft. But we'll get into day three in just a moment. Titans fans, we are going to cap off today's edition of the Locked on Titans podcast. Give it up, grades for each pick pick and then the Titans draft overall. On today's

show, we have talked about the first round, second round, third round. Now we got to get into the day three selections for the Titans before we do. Want to thank you guys for making the Locked on Titans podcast your first listen every day. Remember, Monday through Friday, Tennessee Titans content

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help support the channel, and I definitely do appreciate it. But getting into the day three picks here. Josh Weil. Wiley. I called him Josh Weil like the whole process. And then, you know, at the end, last couple of weeks of the draft, started hearing his name pronounced differently,

and I was like, oh, okay. So that's how you say it. But it's W-H-Y-L-E. To me, that's Wyle. So Wyle is quite confusing that that would be the pronunciation, but I kind of like it because he's like a Wyle Coyote.

You know what I mean? There's a lot of fun that can be had with the last name Wyle. But Josh Wyle from Cincinnati, 6'6", tight end, 248 pounds, great speed, great size. He's going to be a red zone threat who the Titans can isolate against linebackers and safeties and throw him fade balls up in the end zone.

He can jump up and go get it, jump over top of people. He's improved as a blocker all four years in college. He got bigger. He got stronger every year. He got more technical with his blocking. There's a willingness. There's a want to, to go out there and be physical, and that's very important. He can add weight. He's been able to add weight, and Mike Vrabel even mentioned in the press conference after the draft that that's something they talked to him about is add more weight. He thinks his frame has the ability to do it. Mike Vrabel said it himself that he thinks that Josh Wiley and Chika Konkwo can be

out on the field together at the same time. So he sees Wiley as somebody who can put on weight and proven as blocking enough to be in every down tight end. Coming out of college, Wiley played Y, which is the guy with his hand in the dirt next to the offensive tackle. He played F tight end, which is like, think about Johnnie Smith or Chika Konkwo in the Titans offense, where they're that like wing back set. They can go across the formation, be used in motion. He's also a guy, like I mentioned earlier, that you can isolate out against a cornerback.

You can isolate out against a safety or a linebacker. He's going to have a size advantage over those guys. So I think that while the Titans didn't draft a wide receiver, and that goes into the grade, and another thing that stopped it from being an A for me is the Titans didn't draft a wide receiver, and that goes into the grade. And another thing that stopped it from being an A for me is the Titans didn't draft a wide receiver. But at the same time, when you look at a guy like Josh Wiley, I think the Titans can use him as a wide receiver in certain situations, and it would make a lot of sense for him.

And it adds another pass-catching element to the offense. For me, when you talk about fit, it looks like an Austin Hooper replacement with the potential to be more if he does put on weight and improve as a blocker, but immediately in year one, he's going to be able to take that Austin Hooper role where he can play on passing downs, he can come in on some second downs as well,

you can isolate him, you can put him in the slot. I think that's the type of role that Josh Wiley can have. Another great athlete here, you look at the RAS score, it's an 8.98. 67 out of 3,062 tight ends since

1987. 67 out of over 3,000 people. He's that athletic. If you guys, my everydayers out there who have been listening to the show every day for months as I went through the Locked on Titans draft preview and we talked about over 150 prospects,

I talked about Josh Wiley quite a bit. He was a big fan of mine. I got him in a lot of mock drafts late in the game, late rounds. I love that pick. He was one of my guys that I had a lot of faith in, and I'm excited to see what he did. Again, another guy that I predicted and liked last year was

Chigakonkwa. That turned out pretty well, so I'm hoping this pairing can be pretty good for the Titans. Giving an A- for Josh Wiley. My least favorite pick of the Titans draft was Jalen Duncan out of Maryland. I'm giving this a C+. Duncan is an incredible athlete. He's got a 9.01 RAS score, which is 129th out of 1,294. Duncan is an incredible athlete. No doubt about it.

Great 40-yard dash, 10-yard split, vertical broad jump. He's explosive. He's agile. He's got quick feet that allows him to meet pass rushers at the edge and get back in his pass set so that he can get depth and meet those pass rushers as they try to get the loop. He's mobile enough and athletic enough to get to the second level, execute combination blocks, all the stuff the Titans are going to ask him to do within the offense.

I could see why the 6'5", 306-pound offensive tackle, offensive lineman was somebody the Titans were interested in. Again, they target athletic guys, especially on day three. But as I've told you guys, as I mentioned on the day three live stream, as I said in my instant reaction video, Duncan is a guy who isn't known as a hard worker. Whether it be in the weight room, whether it be

studying tape, he isn't a guy who gives a lot of effort out on the field. He doesn't finish guys through the whistle. He has a tendency to kind of just go through the motions. Again, I'm not trying to attack his character as a person, but when it comes to out on

the football field, he just doesn't play with the mentality that I mean, I would want from my players. And I'm just shocked, really. I'm shocked that Mike Vrabel wanted this guy. Like, in my mind, this had to be one of Rand Carthon's champion selections

I mean if the Titans can coach him up and they can flip a switch mentality wise that they could have a really really solid starter that he has the athletic tools to do that and that's why I didn't go any lower than a C plus because I see the potential of a Jalen Duncan but Todd McShay

talked about you know you got to keep him motivated. Some of the resources I use before the draft question whether he's a guy who loves football and is going to give all effort all the time. If you listen to his like press conference, his media availability with the Titans after the draft, you could tell that's what the Titans were telling him all along. And it kind of worried me even more in the press conference with Mike Vrabel and Ray Carthon and Chad Brinker.

Mike Vrabel said, if he's the person that came in here during his 30 visit, then we know we got a good one. Well, aren't you on your best behavior and showing your best face in a job interview? So I just worry that Titans looked at the athletic profile of Jalen Duncan, which is impressive. And they looked at how he could fit in the scheme, which does make sense. And they looked at how he behaved during his 30 visit,

which is essentially a job interview. And I'm just a little worried that the Titans tried to buy into the best of Jalen Duncan, and that's not what they're going to get on an everyday basis. So a bit worried there. I give it a C+, but there is potential that Duncan could flip a switch mentally and turn into a really good player for the Titans. He's a developmental offensive lineman who could probably play tackle or guard. Moving forward, the last pick here is Colton Dowell out of UT Martin.

He's from Lancaster, Tennessee, I believe. Lebanon, Tennessee. It's Lebanon, Tennessee. So he's a local guy. Grew up rooting for the Titans. Wanted to be picked by them. 6'2", 212 pounds, so big body wide receiver that the Titans like. He's got great speed. He's got

great size. He's got leaping ability. He'll go up over top of people and make contested catches down the field. He'll play special teams. He was another guy with great athleticism. Dow had a 9.78 RAS score.

That's 67th out of 3,062 people. That is incredibly impressive. So, fit-wise, to me, he's a he's a young Nick Westbrook Akine he's

going to come in he's going to play Gunner on special teams he's going to do coverage units on special teams and he's going to fight for opportunities to get on the field and get targets and I think he has the opportunity to turn into a pretty solid role player for the Titans.

The problem is he doesn't give you much in terms of trying to help the wide receiver group this year. So, yeah, they took a wide receiver, but this late, I gave the Dow pick a B. I mean, he's a seventh round pick. I'm not going to pretend like he's going to be some crazy stud. He could be, but, you know, highly doubtful. But he'll probably come in and contribute.

It's worth a dart throw. Local guy. Great athletic profile. I give it a B. So, Peter Skowronski, A-. Will Levis, B-. Tajay Spears, B+. Josh Wiley, A-.

Jalen Duncan, C+. Colton Dowell, a B. Overall, it's a B-plus grade for me for the entire draft for the Titans, not just the picks, but for the entire process. I think they could have done a little bit better, and it would have got them an A, but overall, I don't think it's quite as bad of a draft class as maybe some people are acting like online. I mean, like I said on yesterday's show,

there was a guy burning his Eddie George jersey because he was upset about the Titans' picks. I think that's a little premature. If Rand hits on these picks, though, 2024, the Titans are going to have a great chance to get back into contention. And with a good free agency, with a ton of money,

and another good draft class, even with limited picks, I think the Titans could have themselves a really good team in 2024 if these picks hit. And a guy like Spears and Wiley and Skowronski and maybe even Levis, if they do what I think is smart and get rid of Tannehill, then all these guys could be helping this year as well.

So it's kind of an in-between. But that's going to do it for me today, folks. As always, I am your host, Tyler Rowland, and this was Locked on Titans.