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If you're a Tennessee Titans fan, stand up and cheer today. Your new general manager did good. The Titans' trade with the Los Angeles Rams was an absolute blockbuster, out of the blue with the draft still a ways off and everyone still buzzing about Kobe Bryant and the Golden State Warriors. The Titans traded the first overall pick for a bounty, getting two firsts, two seconds, and two thirds while giving up No. 1 overall, a fourth- and a sixth-round pick. The Titans now have six picks in the top 76, and an extra first and third for next year. Let's get the Rams side of this out of the way, because that one is pretty easy to analyze. They needed a quarterback desperately. General manager Les Snead and coach Jeff Fisher have to feel some pressure to win soon or lose their jobs. So what do they care if they sent away a ton of picks? They weren't going to win much (or be around much longer) with Case Keenum, so roll the dice. Assuming the Rams are sold that Carson Wentz or Jared Goff is a franchise quarterback, then they did what they had to do. They couldn't go into a first season in Los Angeles with Keenum as their quarterback, and everyone knew that. If the quarterback works out as they hope, the deal is fine for them.
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