The Tennessee Titans have suffered through a horrifically bad 2024 campaign and capped it off with yet another loss to finish with a 3-14 record. But there is at least some light at the end of the tunnel thanks to the 2025 NFL Draft.
With the Titans losing and the New England Patriots beating the Buffalo Bills, who thankfully did not play their starters, Tennessee has secured the No. 1 overall pick in the 2025 NFL Draft, according to Tankathon.
The two teams immediately behind the Titans are the Cleveland Browns (No. 2) and the New York Giants (No. 3). There is still some work to be done to determine the other picks in the top 10, but that doesn’t really matter for Tennessee.
This is obviously huge for the Titans, a team that should be looking for a new signal-caller this coming offseason. The Will Levis experiment failed miserably and Tennessee will now have to look for another long-term solution.
But this is where things get interesting for the Titans. There is a belief that this draft class isn’t great for quarterbacks, and NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero recently revealed that there isn’t a consensus that guys like Cam Ward and Shedeur Sanders, widely considered this year’s two best quarterbacks, will go all that high.
“Just in my casual conversations with people within the league, there is certainly not a consensus that there’s going to be one, two, three quarterbacks that are all going up there in the top five [picks],” Pelissero said on The Rich Eisen Show.
“In fact, some of the most commonly talked about names could end up being projected lower than anybody realizes,” Pelissero continued. “The names that people bring up the most would be Cam Ward out of Miami as a prospect… In another year, is he a top prospect? Maybe not, but this is this particular draft class.”
“Shedeur Sanders, for a variety of reasons, is going to be a really fascinating overall evaluation. I’ve already talked to people within the league who don’t have anything close to a first-round grade on the guy,” Pelissero added.
“He certainly has fans. He certainly comes in with high profile, but this idea that he [will] walk in… and be the number one pick, that’s probably pushing it.”
Would the quarterback-needy Titans trade out of the No. 1 overall pick in order to secure more draft capital for the future if they don’t believe Sanders, Ward, or any other quarterback is the guy?
Or would they simply go with Travis Hunter, who is widely considered the best prospect coming out? Or could they go with a different player?
These are all questions head coach Brian Callahan and general manager Ran Carthon will have to ponder over the next few months, assuming both are back.
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