In fact, Tennessee head coach Brian Callahan is just not going to tip his workforce’s hand at this stage of the method, and new GM Mike Borgonzi just lately mentioned all choices (together with a trade-down) are nonetheless on the desk (by way of Charean Williams of Professional Soccer Discuss). Nonetheless, Callahan confirmed — assuming the Titans retain their No. 1 selection — the membership shall be choosing certainly one of a brief listing of 4 gamers.
“I feel it’s a brief listing at No. 1 for positive, it’s all the fellows 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 just lately advised NFL Community’s Tom Pelissero (by way of NFL.com’s Coral Smith).
Callahan added, “[t]right here’s going to be quite a lot 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 prime of it.”
Carter is an elite pass-rushing prospect who has been intently 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 abilities 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-about a weak one, Borgonzi’s January feedback indicating he wouldn’t cross on a “generational expertise” with the primary choose within the draft signaled to many who the Titans — who are usually not only a quarterback away from competition – would eschew a signal-caller on the prime of the draft board and would as an alternative choose Carter or Hunter.
Ward’s pre-draft ascension and the significance of the quarterback place might have modified the workforce’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 likelihood 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 workforce’s boards.
Callahan’s remarks help 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 shifting proper alongside,” Callahan mentioned of his second draft as a head coach. “I’d say we have now a reasonably good really feel for what course we’re headed by early April right here, and you set the ultimate touches on it and tie the bow over it by the point you get to the draft.”
