Pros, cons and hard truths about a potential Jalen Ramsey trade for Tennessee Titans

Are you fine with Marcus Mariota starting the next 3+ years if they get Ramsey?

This part is easy for me, but for many people it is the biggest question about this whole potential deal.

If you give up your first round pick, your first pick in the 2020 NFL Draft will probably be in the mid-late 50s or early 60s.

You can roll the dice on a QB there and the difference in quality between that and a pick in the first round that isn’t inside the top-12 is pretty much the same hit rate. However, if the Titans ended up with a pick in the teens they could theoretically trade up and give up the farm to do it.

Some people freaking out about Marcus Mariota need to realize that if this deal goes through, he is likely your best option at QB for the next 3+ because the Titans would have to pay him and his deal would probably be guaranteed for that stretch.

So on one hand you get this defense on passing downs:

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Wake -Casey-Simmons-Landry

On the other hand, you have to resign yourself to the fact that you are going to get a QB on the other side who in his last 16 full games has this statline:

-20 TTDs to 8 INTs, 3,182 yards, 67% completion. Over that time the Titans have a +70 point differential.

Oh. Wait a second, that is actually pretty solid for 416 attempts which would have been the fewest attempts by an NFL team in 2018.

Anyway, back on topic. You have to be willing to say that even without a 1st round pick or any free agency pickups, you think that this team completely as it is right now is ready to challenge for a championship in 2020.

I’m alright with putting my chips in on the table for that instead of earmarking that pick for a mediocre QB with a high chance to fail in next year’s draft, but that is just me.