With DeMarco Murray, Derrick Henry and the big focus on the run game, will the Titans be under-reliant on Marcus Mariota? (1:19)

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- With five of the top 64 picks in the draft, it was reasonable to expect the Tennessee Titans' newcomers to flow right to the top of the depth chart.

Yet after landing Jack Conklin, who should start at right tackle, in Thursday’s first round, the Titans made four picks Friday night who don’t qualify as automatic starters.

Were my expectations too high? Did circumstances dictate the team’s additions came at the few spots where the Titans already have solid options? Did the draft unfold in a bad way? Or did the Titans have a less than stellar evening?

Given some time to digest the list and a chance to hear from general manager Jon Robinson as well as coach Mike Mularkey, I was probably too harsh with an initial assessment bemoaning the lack of immediate starting help.

Let’s run through the picks.

2016 NFL DRAFT PICKS NFC EAST: DAL | NYG | PHI | WAS WEST: ARI | LA | SF | SEA NORTH: CHI | DET | GB | MIN SOUTH: ATL | CAR | NO | TB AFC EAST: BUF | MIA | NE | NYJ WEST: DEN | KC | OAK | SD NORTH: BAL | CLE | CIN | PIT SOUTH: HOU | IND | JAX | TEN

Second rounder No. 1, Clemson’s Kevin Dodd, will be the team’s third outside linebacker at the outset, behind pricey veterans Brian Orakpo and Derrick Morgan. But a third pass-rusher at that position ranked as a big need, and if Dodd can translate what produced 12 sacks for the Tigers, he can be a very important piece and ultimately replace one of the older guys.

Second rounder No. 2, Penn State’s Austin Johnson, comes out of the draft’s wealthiest position. I presumed all along the Titans would wind up adding a lineman to the group, where players have to rotate based on the expected energy output. If he’s top five, he’ll contribute a good deal.

Second rounder No. 3, Alabama’s Derrick Henry, may turn out to be a very productive pick and a great value. My biggest issue is with him -- because the Titans already traded for DeMarco Murray and are, in my estimation, overvaluing the run game. It’s a passing league and the Titans have insufficient weapons for it.

Mularkey is a staunch, old-school, you-must-run-to-win guy. The modern NFL, and the analytics people Mularkey doesn’t embrace enough, has shown winning allows for running much more than the other way around.

Robinson said the Titans now have two workhorse backs. That’s great, but if the two are healthy, it creates a constant conversation about who gets the carries when, and why. The idea of investing this much in the run game makes me wary of an offense that will not hand enough over to Marcus Mariota, and I’d hate for that to be the case.

Third-rounder Kevin Byard may need some time to adjust to the NFL from Conference USA. But he comes into a situation where the Titans added veteran Rashad Johnson on a one-year deal, so they will have two options.

Sure, all four increase competition. I don’t think it’s unfair to expect more than increased competition from four picks between 33 and 64 for a team that has won five games in the last two years.

But Robinson did well to explain that all five of the Titans' picks so far have starter traits and told us why he is more patient than many of us.

“When we scout players and evaluate players, we talk about what they are going to be in their second year,” he said. “It’s such a big transition for college players to make that transition from the college game to the pro game.

“So that’s really how we evaluate it. They are trying to learn a new city. They are trying to learn a new offense or defense. They are learning new teammates. It’s important to give those guys some time. If that happens at some point in their first year, that’s great. But I think by their second season we would think those guys, if we have evaluated them as starting level players, to reach that level.”

And they evaluated them as starting level players.

“I think (so far) that we got five eventual starters,” he said.

It’s not as easy to roll back through the spots where the Titans picked and find players they passed on who would have qualified as definite starters, either.

So all in all, I circle back to what’s been a theme here.

Robinson’s done good work since he arrived. He’s going to show patience with his picks. Even if we have a od case questioning one of them, we’re obligated to do the same.