Gone too soon?
While Wilson still made it as a first-round pick in this year’s draft, there is at least one expert out there who thought he could have benefited from another year in college.
ESPN’s Mel Kiper thinks Wilson could have been a top-15 pick if he stayed at Georgia and not entered the 2020 NFL Draft.
That makes two Georgia offensive tackles in Round 1 here, and there has been some buzz around Wilson over the last few weeks. At 6-foot-6, 350 pounds, Wilson is massive, but he’s going to need some time to clean up his technique before he can start in the NFL. I actually thought he could have been a top-15 pick if he had returned to school for another year and entered the 2021 draft. There is some upside with Wilson, who started at right tackle over the last two seasons, but he’s raw. Yes, Tennessee has a hole at right tackle with Jack Conklin gone, but I don’t see Wilson as an immediate starter.
So, there’s some good and bad to this notion that Wilson should have stayed in college in order to improve his eventual draft position.
It means the Titans are getting someone who is raw and needs work, but Kiper’s evaluation also lends to the idea that the team is getting tremendous upside with Wilson.
It appears that if Wilson can reach his full potential, the Titans may have gotten a steal late in the first round.