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Kenny Britt likely won't arrive in 2009

Some Giants fans live at the draft seemed peeved that their team didn't take Kenny Britt, passing on him in favor of Hakeem Nicks. Well, the receiver-needy Titans didn't wait long, grabbing Rutgers product Britt with the very next selection, the 30th in the draft. Britt, the first Rutgers player ever taken in the first round, might not be quite the playmaker Nicks is, but he's a very solid possession receiver with a real future as a No. 2 in the NFL. Given the fact that the Titans signed deep threat Nate Washington this winter, Britt looks like a nice longer-term fit. Is he a fantasy factor this year? This blog is sounding a bit like a broken record, receiver-wise, but again, we're probably not looking at a guy who's going to become as a must-draft fantasy player right away. His upside is someone like Jerricho Cotchery. But Cotchery himself took a few years to develop. The Titans don't run a lot of three-wide sets, and they're pretty well set with Washington and Justin Gage as starters, and they also took Lavelle Hawkins (DeSean Jackson's old Cal teammate) in the fourth round last year. I'd say Britt has a chance to easily leapfrog the underachieving Hawkins, as well as '07 third-rounder Paul Williams, right away. But I can't see him cracking the starting lineup in Week 1.