Former NFL GM Mark Dominik Has a “Dark Horse” Pick for the Titans at No. 7

NASHVILLE – A week away from the NFL Draft, most draft analysts have the Titans taking a tackle or a receiver with the 7th overall pick.

Former NFL General Manager Mark Dominik, speaking on a SiriusXM NFL Radio conference call on Thursday, thinks that’s a scenario that could play out for Tennessee in the first round.

Dominik, however, threw out “dark horse” for the Titans at 7.

“If it’s down to tackle and receiver, then I think they’ll take the tackle,” Dominik said. “I think the receiver class is deep enough where you could go to round 2, especially with what they have done at receiver with (Calvin) Ridley and (DeAndre) Hopkins, and (Treylon) Burks. I just don’t think that is going to be the fit that they’re looking for.

“My dark horse is Brock Bowers,” Dominik said. “If he’s available, I think he’s going to go over the tackle for the Titans.”

Bowers, of course, has been linked to the Titans since February, when the Georgia tight end got a lot of attention Super Bowl week when naming the Titans as a team he’d like to play for in the NFL.

Bowers chuckled when asked about it a few weeks later at the NFL Combine, while indicating he met with the Titans – and plenty of other teams – in Indianapolis.

“I met with the Titans, and it went good, I thought,” Bowers said from Indianapolis.

Bowers said he mentioned the Titans during an interview with Pro Football Talk (PFT Live) on Super Bowl Radio Row in Las Vegas because it’s “a cool place to live. Nashville, Tennessee, it would be cool.”

Dominik, who worked in a NFL front office role for 20 seasons, 19 of them with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, could see a scenario where the Titans pick Bowers.

“I think that’s a piece that (the Titans) need badly,” Dominik said of Bowers, who became the first two-time John Mackey Award winner. In 35 games with the Bulldogs, Bowers recorded the most receptions (175), receiving yards (2,538) and receiving touchdowns…