NFL Network speculated that the Titans traded up for Malik Willis out of fear that the Cowboys would take him
The 2022 NFL Draft featured only one quarterback taken in the first round, Pitt’s Kenny Pickett, appropriately to the
Pittsburgh Steelers. It was a long ways until Desmond Ridder heard his name called by the
Atlanta Falcons, and a bit longer until Malik Willis went to the
Tennessee Titans. As far as the latter is concerned, his new team actually traded up for him and leapfrogged the Cowboys in the process to do so.
Willis would go at pick number 86 and two spots later Dallas took wide receiver Jalen Tolbert. While that all seemed pretty normal and chalk on Monday, it was speculated by NFL Network that the Titans could have jumped the way that they did partly in fear that Dallas may have wanted to draft Willis themselves.
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Maybe the front office already hypothicatin'