After all, Tennessee head coach Brian Callahan just isn’t going to tip his workforce’s hand at this stage of the method, and new GM Mike Borgonzi not too long ago stated all choices (together with a trade-down) are nonetheless on the desk (through Charean Williams of Pro Football Talk). Nonetheless, Callahan confirmed — assuming the Titans retain their No. 1 selection — the membership might be choosing one in every of a brief listing of 4 gamers.
“I feel it’s a brief listing 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 not too long ago instructed NFL Community’s Tom Pelissero (through 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 perfect gamers within the draft and on the high of it.”
Carter is an elite pass-rushing prospect who has been closely linked to the Browns and their No. 2 total choose in current days. Hunter is a uncommon two-way phenom whom some groups primarily mission as a cornerback on the skilled degree, with different groups valuing him extra extremely as a large receiver.
Each Carter and Hunter have lengthy been seen as the highest total 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 usually thought-about a weak one, Borgonzi’s January feedback indicating he would not pass on a “generational talent” with the primary choose within the draft signaled to many who the Titans — who usually are not only a quarterback away from rivalry – would eschew a signal-caller on the high 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 could have modified the workforce’s considering in that regard, although Callahan’s feedback — if taken at face worth, that’s — counsel 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 completely, in addition to the truth that different QB prospects like Jaxson Dart and Tyler Shough could 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 remains an early-first round candidate. Regardless of the Ward-to-Tennessee momentum, the Titans will host Sanders on a personal exercise.
“We’re getting nearer for positive; the entire processes are transferring proper alongside,” Callahan stated of his second draft as a head coach. “I’d say we’ve got 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.”
