In fact, Tennessee head coach Brian Callahan will not be going to tip his crew’s hand at this stage of the method, and new GM Mike Borgonzi lately mentioned all choices (together with a trade-down) are nonetheless on the desk (through Charean Williams of Professional Soccer Discuss). Nonetheless, Callahan confirmed — assuming the Titans retain their No. 1 selection — the membership will probably be choosing one in every of a brief record of 4 gamers.
“I feel it’s a brief record at No. 1 for positive, it’s all the blokes that I feel are worthy of it, those that everybody talks about on the market, and between Travis [Hunter] and Shedeur [Sanders] and [Ward] and Abdul Carter, I feel these are, that’s the highest of the draft for me,” Callahan lately advised NFL Community’s Tom Pelissero (through NFL.com’s Coral Smith).
Callahan added, “[t]right here’s going to be loads of good ones definitely that come after them, however I feel these at this second are the most effective gamers within the draft and on the high of it.”
Carter is an elite pass-rushing prospect who has been carefully linked to the Browns and their No. 2 general choose in latest days. Hunter is a uncommon two-way phenom whom some groups primarily mission as a cornerback on the skilled stage, with different groups valuing him extra extremely as a large receiver.
Each Carter and Hunter have lengthy been seen as the highest general skills within the 2025 class, although the truth that Ward and Sanders play quarterback naturally elevates their inventory fairly a bit.
With the 2025 crop of QBs typically thought of a weak one, Borgonzi’s January feedback indicating he wouldn’t move on a “generational expertise” with the primary choose within the draft signaled to many who the Titans — who will not be only a quarterback away from competition – would eschew a signal-caller on the high of the draft board and would as a substitute choose Carter or Hunter.
Ward’s pre-draft ascension and the significance of the quarterback place might have modified the crew’s pondering in that regard, although Callahan’s feedback — if taken at face worth, that’s — recommend Carter and Hunter are nonetheless within the combine.
Additionally it is notable that Callahan named Sanders as one of many 4 gamers worthy of the No. 1 choice. A lot has been made about Sanders’ draft inventory and the chance that he may fall out of the primary spherical totally, in addition to the truth that different QB prospects like Jaxson Dart and Tyler Shough might have surpassed him on some crew’s boards.
Callahan’s remarks assist the notion that, however the rumors surrounding Sanders’ potential slide, the Colorado product stays an early-first spherical candidate. Regardless of the Ward-to-Tennessee momentum, the Titans will host Sanders on a non-public exercise.
“We’re getting nearer for positive; the entire processes are transferring proper alongside,” Callahan mentioned of his second draft as a head coach. “I’d say we’ve a reasonably good really feel for what course we’re headed by early April right here, and you place the ultimate touches on it and tie the bow over it by the point you get to the draft.”
