Tennessee Titans Get It Right...

You look at the draft list that the Tennessee Titans had for the 2010 Draft and you might nod your head a little bit. You'd think in "American Bandstand" terminology, that it was a "65 that you couldn't dance to..."

Average at best, six of the nine selections were on the defensive side of the ball... blah, blah, blah...

Look closer...

Derrick Morgan fell into their lap at 16- A kid from Georgia Tech who can get after the quarterback. But then you look at the linebacker they picked up in Rennie Curran from Georgia in Round Three.

He's "too small" you say...???

But that's what they said about Sam Mills, too. Curran hits harder than Mills ever did and is a state weightlifting champ as a high school athlete. His family escaped Liberia before Rennie was even born, but the family's home became a safe house for countrymen looking to escape what Charles Taylor had done as a warlord...

The HQ is well aware of the looks on your face at this point... just look it up and consider it your Civics lesson for today...
((HT: AlJazeeraEnglish))


In the sixth round, they picked up Rusty Smith from Florida Atlantic as a QB.
Yeah, but he "played in the Sun Belt Conference."

Remember who his coach was in college...?

Howard Schnellenberger...

And remember what he's going through as a father...???
How's that for a role model...???
((Rusty is pictured with Stephen Schnellenberger, thanks Sunsentinel.com))

Refresh your memory here with Ted Hutton's story from the SunSentinel...

Then there's the guy whose football desire was questioned that they selected after that. As part of the HQ was watching the draft, TBH was livid that a stand-up example of a person was still undrafted while other athletes with issues a mile-and-a-half long were snatched up without a second thought.

Here's a kid who took a year off from football to be a Rhodes Scholar, and coaches are questioning his "deserting his teammates?" A coach from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers actually said that in a combine interview to Rolle.

She was ready to gut-punch everyone at the combine that claimed to be an authority figure that was "concerned" about his desire to play football and not be the future president of the Bahamas- or some damn lofty goal like that... and could, actually, accomplish the goal...

TBH also brought up the interesting point of wondering just how many kids who left school early to declare for the NFL Draft were asked the same question about "deserting their teammates."

The answer: Probably none...

Apparently, an NFC executive texted Yahoo!Sports and said Rolle is a "better story than he is a ballplayer."

"What an ass!" TBH yelled back at the computer screen...
That's why an AFC team scooped him up, right...???

Here's the story the four-letter did on Rolle the Rhodes Scholar...
((HT: RiceSportsManagement/ESPN))


Then there's Stafon Johnson... undrafted free agent...
His story is better told in his own voice, and no that wasn't meant as a poor pun...

Here's the profile the four-letter's "College Football Live" put together on Johnson.
((HT: OmniChristianVids2/ESPN))


Among the kid who's too small, the kid who's too smart, and the kid who's too hurt, the Tennessee Titans have gotten this one right in a league where getting it wrong seems to be more the norm...