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King On Rivers, Eagles, Mariota

By | at May 1, 2015 8:34 am

Philip Rivers was never in serious play for the Titans, Peter King of The MMQB writes. The Chargers made it clear they were not trading him from the get-go and that proved to be the truth. Here’s the latest from King..

  • The Eagles never offered players as part of a package to obtain Marcus Mariota. In fact, King says that Chip Kelly never offered the widely rumored packages of either three first-round picks or two first-round picks and Sam Bradford, in an attempt to obtain the No. 2 pick from the Titans. The Titans basically scared off suitors because they continually told teams they wanted to take Mariota and that would it would take a king’s ransom to obtain the pick. [It should be noted that King’s report doesn’t address the mammoth offer reportedly made to the Bucs for the No. 1 pick. Kelly has denied that story but Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk (on Twitter) stands by it.]
  • The Bears expressed some interest in moving up from No. 7 to No. 2 to pick Mariota, but the Bears weren’t all that desperate for him and the Titans had no interest in Jay Cutler.
  • Ken Whisenhunt, meanwhile, told King that he always wanted Mariota and any talk to the contrary was untrue. “I said it all along—he excited me. I really wanted him. In the end, it wasn’t a difficult decision to stay at two and pick Marcus,” the coach said.
  • King gets the sense that if Kelly had gone crazy and offered three ones and a couple of starting defensive players, the Titans brass would have had to sit down and consider it. However, that still probably wouldn’t have gotten it done as the Titans really wanted their quarterback of the future.
  • The Mariota pick might have been made possible in part by a conversation between Chiefs coach Andy Reid and Whisenhunt in which the ex-Eagles coach explained how he was glad that he took Donovan McNabb in 1999 rather than trading that pick to Mike Ditka‘s Saints, who were gunning for Ricky Williams.
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2015 NFL Draft Results: Day One

By | at May 1, 2015 12:20 am

After weeks of trade rumors and speculation involving Marcus Mariota and a handful of other players, the first round of the 2015 NFL draft ended up being mostly uneventful. Only two teams made trades, with San Diego moving from No. 17 to No. 15, and Denver moving up from No. 28 to No. 23.

Dorial Green-Beckham, Randy Gregory, and La’el Collins were among the players with off-field question marks who weren’t selected in the first round, but teams were willing to roll the dice on some others, including Marcus Peters and Shane Ray.

Here are the results of the first round of the 2015 NFL draft:

  1. Tampa Bay Buccaneers: Jameis Winston, QB (Florida State) (link)
  2. Tennessee Titans: Marcus Mariota, QB (Oregon) (link)
  3. Jacksonville Jaguars: Dante Fowler Jr., DE/OLB (Florida)
  4. Oakland Raiders: Amari Cooper, WR (Alabama)
  5. Washington: Brandon Scherff, OL (Iowa)
  6. New York Jets: Leonard Williams, DL (USC)
  7. Chicago Bears: Kevin White, WR (West Virginia)
  8. Atlanta Falcons: Vic Beasley, DE/OLB (Clemson)
  9. New York Giants: Ereck Flowers, T (Miami)
  10. St. Louis Rams: Todd Gurley, RB (Georgia)
  11. Minnesota Vikings: Trae Waynes, CB (Michigan State)
  12. Cleveland Browns: Danny Shelton, DT (Washington)
  13. New Orleans Saints: Andrus Peat, T (Stanford)
  14. Miami Dolphins: DeVante Parker, WR (Louisville)
  15. San Diego Chargers (from San Francisco): Melvin Gordon, RB (Wisconsin)
  16. Houston Texans: Kevin Johnson, CB (Wake Forest)
  17. San Francisco 49ers (from San Diego): Arik Armstead, DL (Oregon)
  18. Kansas City Chiefs: Marcus Peters, CB (Washington)
  19. Cleveland Browns (from Buffalo): Cameron Erving, OL (Florida State)
  20. Philadelphia Eagles: Nelson Agholor, WR (USC)
  21. Cincinnati Bengals: Cedric Ogbuehi, OL (Texas A&M)
  22. Pittsburgh Steelers: Bud Dupree, DE/OLB (Kentucky)
  23. Denver Broncos (from Detroit): Shane Ray, DE/OLB (Missouri)
  24. Arizona Cardinals: D.J. Humphries, T (Florida)
  25. Carolina Panthers: Shaq Thompson, LB (Washington)
  26. Baltimore Ravens: Breshad Perriman, WR (UCF)
  27. Dallas Cowboys: Byron Jones, CB (Connecticut)
  28. Detroit Lions (from Denver): Laken Tomlinson, G (Duke)
  29. Indianapolis Colts: Phillip Dorsett, WR (Miami)
  30. Green Bay Packers: Damarious Randall, S (Arizona State)
  31. New Orleans Saints (from Seattle): Stephone Anthony, LB (Clemson)
  32. New England Patriots: Malcom Brown, DT (Texas)
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