The Tampa Bay Buccaneers would have taken Marcus Mariota with the first overall pick of the 2015 NFL draft had Jameis Winston gotten into any kind of trouble before the draft, general manager Jason Licht told Pewter Report. Instead, Mariota went second overall to the Tennessee Titans.
That's a bit of a surprise confession, as general managers usually don't like to talk about players they didn't select. Licht has to be happy that Winston stayed out of trouble -- now we just have to hope that stays that way for the rest of his life.