The Tennessee Titans began Day 2 of the 2015 NFL draft by trading out of the 33rd overall pick, dealing it to the New York Giants for their second-round pick, 40th overall, their fourth-round pick, 108th overall, and their seventh-round pick, 245th overall.
With that 40th overall pick, the Titans selected wide receiver Dorial Green-Beckham. DGB was one of the most polarizing prospects in the draft. If you liked him, you saw the sub-4.5 40 yard dash at 237 pounds and 6’5″. If you didn’t like him on the field, you thought he only ran a couple routes, none of them particularly well, showed relatively little polish as a wide receiver, and didn’t have nearly the same numbers beyond the 40-yard dash to earn the Calvin Johnson comparisons you may have heard. If you didn’t like him off the field, like probably more than a few teams around the league did, you saw the reports of regular drug use (even if just marijuana, it’s still a no-no in the NFL) plus the whole “allegedly shoving a woman down a flight of stairs” thing. In today’s NFL, that sort of thing makes you completely undraftable for multiple teams.
The reward could be significant, but it’s another ugly pick and a high-risk one after a quarterback who in a number of ways is similarly high-risk. Green-Beckham was a visitor and the Titans apparently spent enough time to be comfortable with him, but they’ve spent a lot of time on due diligence in the past and still had players not work out for off-the-field reasons.
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