If the Tennessee Titans could re-do the 2021 NFL draft, they certainly would not take cornerback Caleb Farley with the No. 22 overall pick again.
As much as we like Farley as a human being and feel bad for the terrible struggles he’s had to go through, his career has been a disappointment, to say the least.
The 33rd Team’s Marcus Mosher recently did a re-do of the 2021 NFL draft and had the Titans taking linebacker Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah, who was originally taken with the No. 52 overall pick (second round) by the Cleveland Browns.
Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah is the prototypical linebacker in the 2020s. He can fly to the football and excels in coverage. He is coming off the best season of his career and should be better in Year 4. There aren’t very many linebackers in the NFL that are more valuable than “JOK” heading into the 2024 season.
While the Titans are all good at cornerback after the additions of L’Jarius Sneed and Chidobe Awuzie, the linebacker position is a question mark going into training camp.
Free-agent addition Kenneth Murray has his own concerns, but the team also has to figure out who it will start next to him. The options include a lackluster starter from last year, Jack Gibbens, a rookie in Cedric Gray, and a second-year player and former UDFA in Otis Reese.
As Mosher notes, Owusu-Koramoah can do it all on a football field and he would have been a fantastic duo with former linebacker David Long, who is now in Miami. And, the Titans would be in much better shape at linebacker in 2024.
However, taking a linebacker that early would be no guarantee based on the record of former general manager, Jon Robinson. The highest he drafted a linebacker during his tenure was Monty Rice in the third round of the same draft, and we all know how that went.
