Touchdown Wire’s pre-combine mock draft: Chase Young, Jerry Jeudy are pivot points

Everybody does mock drafts, most everybody does more than one, and every mock draft is done for different reasons. To get clicks? Well, duh. That would be reason No. 1, dear reader. Let’s not be arch about this. That aside, what we’re trying to do …

29. Tennessee Titans (9-7): Yetur Gross-Matos, EDGE, Penn State

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As Pro Football Focus recently pointed out, “The Titans had nine players with 100 or more pass-rushing snaps [in 2019]. The only one with a pressure rate above 10% was Cameron Wake.” Wake, who just turned 38, also played in just nine games and had just 2.5 sacks. Linebacker Harold Landry is a rising star, and we all know how good defensive tackle Jurrell Casey is as a multi-gap force, but it’d be nice for Tennessee’s defensive coaching staff, still likely reeling from coordinator Dean Pees’ retirement, to have more options at the edge. Tremendously athletic at 6-foot-5 and 264 pounds, Gross-Matos needs help with his hand moves (which can be said of nearly every collegiate defensive lineman), but he’s got the potential to be the final piece in what could be a formidable group of quarterback disrupters.

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