The Tennessee Titans added nine new players to their roster in the 2022 NFL draft, and shortly after the three-day event ended, general manager Jon Robinson reflected on the group he picked.
Robinson was asked if the Titans going with majority offense was his aim or if that’s just the way the board fell, to which he replied, “probably a little combination of both.”
“Probably a little combination of both,” Robinson admitted. “Again, we tried to take the best player that fit our football team when we were on the clock, and there’s some guys that get drafted. When you’ve got gaps in between picks, there are certainly players that we like sometimes that get picked, and conversely, I’m sure there were guys that we picked that other teams liked as well, and they missed out on.”
The Titans general manager was wheeling and dealing over the course of the draft, making three trades. Robinson says that’s just kind of how things worked out.
“I don’t know that we set out that way to take, ‘Hey, we were going to take — we needed X amount of picks, so we needed to take this pick and turn it into that,’” Robinson explained. “It kind of just manifested itself organically. I thought that to trade out of where we were in the first round, that certainly gave us some picks to move around. It’s always good when you can have extra guys. Especially on a day like today when with the guys that we took, we felt good about coming in and competing and carving out a role on the team.”
One trend that was noticeable with some of the Titans’ picks was the fact that they play with physicality. Robinson explained the importance of having such players.
“I think that as the game wears on, if you can play a tough, physical, downhill style offensively, I think that tends to wear on opponents some, and hopefully you can find enough points there late in the game when we continue to play with the effort and finish that we preach extensively here and hopefully kind of wear some teams down.”