NFL Draft: 5 reasons Jalen Ramsey should go No. 1
By John Buhler
5. No consensus No. 1 overall pick
In most years heading into an NFL Draft, there usually emerges a consensus No. 1 overall pick. Most years it’s a pro-style quarterback. Other years it’s potentially elite pass rushers like Mario Williams out of North Carolina State in 2006 or Jadeveon Clowney out of South Carolina in 2014.
While there are two franchise quarterbacks available in the top 10 of the 2016 NFL Draft in California’s Jared Goff and North Dakota State’s Carson Wentz, there is no guarantee that either Goff or Wentz will go No. 1 overall. In all likelihood, one of the two will go No. 2 to the Cleveland Browns who are in desperate need for a quarterback. The other won’t make it out of the top 10 almost certainly.
What further complicates a quarterback going No. 1 overall to the Titans is that Tennessee already drafted its franchise quarterback in 2015 No. 2 overall in 2014 Heisman Trophy winning quarterback Marcus Mariota out of Oregon. Unless Tennessee is willing to trade out of No. 1, a quarterback won’t go No. 1 in the 2016 NFL Draft.
Outside of quarterback the worst team in football in the Titans will probably look to either bring in protection on the offensive line for Mariota or go with an All-Pro caliber player on the defensive side of the ball to give head coach Mike Mularkey a cornerstone on the Titans defense for years to come.
Not having a consensus must-draft No. 1 type of player in the 2016 NFL Draft certainly opens the door for any of these players to go No. 1 that don’t player quarterback: Ramsey, Ole Miss’ Laremy Tunsil, Notre Dame’s Ronnie Stanley, Ohio State’s Joey Bosa, Oregon’s DeForest Buckner, and potentially even Florida’s Vernon Hargreaves, III.
If Tennessee stands pat and keeps its No. 1 overall pick, there is a strong chance that they will go with the star defensive back out of Florida State in the true junior Ramsey.
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