Sifting through film clips of the Titans’ recent sixth-round draft pick, West Virginia linebacker David Long, Jon Robinson raises his laser pointer at the projection screen on his office wall.



“This is the Baylor game. I was at this game,” Tennessee’s fourth-year general manager says, taking a drag from a blue Red Bull can.



Robbie Bohren, the team’s longtime head of media relations, has found a chair in the room and is watching some of the film.



“Does it help you to see these guys in person?” Bohren asks.



Robinson kind of shrugs.



“I don’t know that you learn a whole lot,” he says. “It’s good to see them on the hoof.”



A second or two passes.



“I might have salivated when I saw Jeff Simmons live,” Robinson says of the team’s eventual first-round pick, a standout defensive lineman from Mississippi State.



But when Robinson...