Titans grab Tate at No. 4 to get Ward more help
Mike Florio reacts to the first surprise of the night with Tennessee picking WR Carnell Tate to beef up the offense.
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Well, how about that defensive head coach in Tennessee in Robert Sala?
Sonny Stiles, the Buckeyes linebacker, right there to be taken.
Arvell Reese, the Buckeyes linebacker slash defensive end, right there to be taken.
Pick number four, the Titans take another Ohio State player, receiver Carnell Tate, our favorite guy from the scouting combine, a Lego head.
He'll be building a Lego stadium of that new, that new Titans venue, I think, in his spare time in Nashville.
They drafted a lot of receivers last year to help support Cam Ward.
And who knows, maybe they were eyeballing Jeremiah Love to be the fourth overall pick in the draft if he hadn't been taken by the Cardinals.
But they beef up the offense with a guy who is regarded as a potential superstar.
There was a question about whether or not his forty-yard dash time at the combine was fast enough.
Well, you know who else didn't run a really fast forty?
Have you heard?
Jerry Rice didn't.
You know, you're running not in a uniform, not with a ball in the air, not with anyone competing against you.
It, it's realistic to a certain extent, but it's also very unrealistic.
They believe in Carnell Tate.
Ohio State has become a receiver factory.
Look at Jaxon Smith-Njigba.
They have so many great receivers in the NFL now who went to Ohio State.
Tate becomes the latest one at a very high draft pick, a top five pick, the fourth overall pick.
The Titans trying to turn the page on some irrelevance that they've experienced, and they're trying to get help for the guy who was the first overall pick last year in Cam Ward, as Robert Sala tries to do what his recent predecessors in Tennessee have failed to do, stick around on the job for more than a handful of years.
