On a hasty path to becoming an all-time draft failure, striker Isaiah Wilson is starting a new start with a new franchise after a disastrous rookie campaign.
Wilson, the Tennessee Titans’ choice for the first round of 2020, was negotiated with the Miami Dolphins, NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport reported on Monday. The Titans are sending Wilson and a choice of seventh round in 2022 to the Dolphins for a selection in 2021 in the seventh round.
The exchange comes about two weeks after Wilson tweeted that his days are over as a Titans football player. He quickly deleted the tweet, but it proved to be fortuitous.
“I’m sick of football like a Titan,” posted Wilson, 22 in the deleted tweet. “No more comments.”
No further comment is really needed for Tennessee, who gave Wilson a chance and had no choice but to move on after a first season in which Wilson played the field in just one game and made much more noise with him.
Titans general manager Jon Robinson said before Wilson’s tweet that he had not spoken directly to Wilson since the lineman was placed on the non-football reserve / injury list in December. That was the conclusion of Wilson’s debut season and Monday signals the end of his troubled, no matter how brief, time in Tennessee.
With 29th overall in the NFL draft, Wilson was the final selection of the first round to sign his newbie contract, although he had already been placed on the reserve / COVID-19 list before signing his contract. It was a neon sign of what was to come. .
When the Titans took the 6-foot-6, 350-pounder from Georgia, it was seen by many as a risky choice with Wilson seen as a project and 29th as a reach.
In the end, the risky business of choosing Wilson paid off with just one game, which saw him play three offensive snaps and a snap on special teams.
On two occasions, Wilson was placed on the reserve / COVID-19 list.
In August, he was involved in an incident at Tennessee State University in which police responded to the smell of marijuana in an off-campus apartment and reported that the player went to the second-floor balcony, where he briefly seemed to consider jumping, according to the Associated Press. After that incident, Wilson was arrested and charged with DUI in September.
The Titans put Wilson on the NFI list in December before Week 14.
Now, Wilson will try to rebuild his image and restart the work to realize his potential in the first round with Brian Flores and his team. If anyone succeeds in getting the young person to change the situation before becoming a forgotten first round, mentioned only on the lists of major recruitment prisons, Flores seems to be the first among the candidates. Wilson and Flores are graduates of Poly Prep High in Brooklyn, New York and have known each other for years, noted Peter Schrager of the NFL Network.
Short and tumultuous, Wilson’s days in Tennessee ended with a new horizon emerging in Miami.