Up to date mock drafts not too long ago produced by ESPN’s Mel Kiper Jr. and NFL Media’s Daniel Jeremiah brought about some followers to imagine the Tennessee Titans have determined to carry onto the primary choose of the 2025 NFL Draft to allow them to purchase Miami’s Cam Ward, the consensus prime quarterback in his class.
Nevertheless, NFL insider Albert Breer of Sports activities Illustrated indicated in a mailbag printed on Wednesday that new Titans basic supervisor Mike Borgonzi and head coach Brian Callahan have not but closed the door on buying and selling the draft’s first alternative for the precise value.
“After spending a while with them in the course of the mix and doing this story on the No. 1 choose with new GM Mike Borgonzi and coach Brian Callahan on how they’ll strategy utilizing it,” Breer wrote, “I do know their plan has been to undergo the method with” Ward, Colorado quarterback Shedeur Sanders, Colorado large receiver/cornerback Travis Hunter and Penn State pass-rusher Abdul Carter.
“Basically,” Breer continued, “they need the total image on these guys and what they carry to the desk, as gamers and in any other case, earlier than deciding whether or not to actually entertain affords for the choose. It is smart to do it that means. It is a large determination, they usually maintain all of the playing cards.”
Throughout a Wednesday look on Cleveland sports activities radio station 92.3 The Fan, analyst Brian Hoyer stated he would take New England Patriots backup and 2024 sixth-round draft pick Joe Milton III “over any of the quarterbacks in” this 12 months’s draft. Borgonzi and Co. would not must agree with that actual evaluation to determine they’d quite accumulate a number of belongings for an ongoing rebuild than take Ward at No. 1.
The Cleveland Browns (choose No. 2), New York Giants (No. 3), Las Vegas Raiders (No. 6), New York Jets (No. 7) and New Orleans Saints (No. 9) are a handful of groups that might at the least discover submitting a “‘Godfather’ provide” to the Titans for the primary choice that may be spent on Ward.
Callahan might finally decide he can assist Ward turn out to be a long-term franchise quarterback, however it sounds just like the Titans are nonetheless open for enterprise concerning the draft’s first choose as of the beginning of spring.
