Hindsight is 20/20, and there are plenty of decisions teams have made in drafts of previous years that they wish they could have back.
The Tennessee Titans are no exception, and 2012 is probably a year the team would choose to go back and make a different selection.
The Titans selected former Baylor Bears wide receiver Kendall Wright with the No. 20 overall pick in the first round ahead of that year.
But what if they had taken defensive end Olivier Vernon?
Vernon, who was taken at No. 72 overall in the third round of the draft out of Miami by the Dolphins, is who NFL Media senior analyst Gil Brandt believes the Titans should have chosen instead.
“Wright only produced one 1,000-yard season (in 2013), never becoming the WR1 the Titans were looking for,” he wrote. “Vernon, who posted 29 sacks in his first four seasons in Miami, would have filled Tennessee’s need for an edge rusher.”
Wright spent five years in Nashville, posting 280 receptions for 3,244 yards and 18 touchdowns, playing his most recent season of football with the Chicago Bears in 2017.
The wideout had 59 receptions for the 614 yards and one touchdown for the team that season.
Vernon has amassed 353 tackles, 255 solo, 141 quarterback hits, eight forced fumbles, two fumble recoveries two passes defensed and one interception over eight seasons in the NFL.
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