It is difficult for a choice in the first round to have a worse first season than Isaiah Wilson had in 2020.
And that was before he tweeted – and then quickly deleted – that he had ended football as a Tennessee Titan on Monday night.
The Titans caught Wilson with choice 29 in the first round of the 2020 NFL Draft. He had been a starter on the right for two seasons in Georgia and had a lot of potential due to his athletic gifts and six-foot stature.
But almost from the moment his NFL career began, Wilson found himself in trouble. He was arrested in September for DUI and in August made headlines for trying to escape a party on the Tennessee state campus, almost jumping off a porch.
He was placed on reserve / COVID several times during his debut season. Wilson, who was supposed to fight for a spot on the Tennessee offensive line, played only one game in which he saw four clicks. He was suspended for Tennessee’s game against Cleveland and then placed on the non-football illness list on December 9, where he would remain for the rest of the season.
Last week, Tennessee general manager Jon Robinson made a cryptic remark about Wilson’s future with the team.
“He will have to decide whether he wants to do whatever it takes to play professional football – that will be up to him,” Robinson told reporters.
Wilson signed with Georgia as a member of his 2017 signing class. After refusing to do so in his first year on campus, Wilson emerged as a key part of Georgia’s offensive line in 2018-2019.
He was one of Georgia’s two tackles in the first round, with Andrew Thomas going fourth overall for the New York Giants.
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Wilson signed a four-year contract with the Titans for $ 11.5 and $ 6 million guaranteed.
“We worked with him a lot before the draft,” said Robinson. “The player who was here in the fall was not the player we evaluated.”
Wilson entered the NFL with immense talent and promise. Now with his Tennessee Titan career apparently over, it will be worth watching to see if another NFL team gives the talented ex-Bulldog a chance.
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