Henry McKenna
NFL reporter
When it involves the race for the No. 1 general choose within the upcoming draft, many of the groups in competition did their finest final week.
Aside from the Jets, each group at the moment scheduled to choose within the high 10 misplaced in Week 15, with six falling by double digits.
Here’s the place the highest 10 at the moment stand within the draft order:
1. Las Vegas Raiders (2-12)
2. New York Giants (2-12)
3. New England Patriots (3-11)
4. Jacksonville Jaguars (3-11)
5. Carolina Panthers (3-11)
6. Tennessee Titans (3-11)
7. Cleveland Browns (3-11)
8. New York Jets (4-10)
9. Chicago Bears (4-10)
10. New Orleans Saints (5-9)
Our weekly highlight on groups more likely to choose first general in 2025 continues with the Titans.
Quarterback reemerged as Tennessee’s high precedence after benching Will Levis in a 37-27 loss to the Cincinnati Bengals. His 4 turnovers within the recreation seemingly erased all of the constructive momentum he had constructed up over the previous month as a hopeful long-term reply for the franchise. Coach Brian Callahan had beforehand been adamant that Levis could be the starter so long as he was wholesome.
Here’s what FOX Sports NFL writers wrote Ben Arthur AND Henry McKenna I feel the Titans ought to do it in the event that they get the No. 1 general choose.
McKenna: I like Shedeur Sanders for the Titans. Tennessee is a pleasant, quiet media marketplace for Sanders to ascertain himself within the NFL. There will not be the identical degree of scrutiny as a spot like New York. Sanders can develop in Nashville with out having to take care of tabloid complications.
Titans coach Brian Callahan was in Cincinnati to develop Bengals QB Joe Burrow, who’s the kind of participant Sanders will wish to develop into. So why not pair Sanders with The Boy Who Shot Joe Burrow?
I additionally assume organizations like to maneuver away from what has merely failed them. As a quarterback, Sanders is kind of completely different than Will Levis. Levis was the Titans’ try to land a Josh Allen. Great arm. Great physique. Solid athlete. Sanders is none of these issues, however he is an effective quarterback. And his sturdy qualities may attraction as a result of they’re so completely different from Levis, who seems to be on the run in Tennessee.
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Arthur: Would the Colorado star additionally wish to come to the Titans? We know that Deion Sanders mentioned privately he would assist some groups not drafting his son, and we have now to contemplate that the Titans might be a type of groups. Nashville is a smaller NFL market, which stands out as the reverse of what the Sanders are searching for. The Titans have additionally been a sinking ship since incomes the AFC’s No. 1 general seed in 2021 and bowing out early within the postseason. Things have gotten so unhealthy this yr that there was rising hypothesis about the way forward for the Callahan-Ran Carthon regime after only one season. Being a small market group with an unclear future might be seen as a double whammy.
Shedeur Sanders cannot be dominated out, clearly — we do not know what he desires — however Cam Ward is a quarterback who many within the scouting neighborhood assume is a greater prospect anyway, so I’ll throw him out as my choose. His creativity and success in a dynamic passing assault in Miami bodes properly for a possible partnership with Callahan, who has labored with quite a lot of quarterbacks. The 6-foot-2, 223-pound Ward is usually a little reckless at instances, however he has the type of expertise to justify Callahan’s persistence. Ward’s mobility can also be higher suited to the trendy NFL than Sanders, who will probably be extra pocket-bound.
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Ben Arthur is an NFL reporter for FOX Sports. He beforehand labored for The Tennessean/USA TODAY Network, the place he was Titans beat the author for a yr and a half. It lined the Seattle Seahawks for SeattlePI.com for 3 seasons (2018-20) earlier than shifting to Tennessee. You can observe Ben on Twitter at @benyarthur.
Before becoming a member of FOX Sports as an NFL reporter and columnist, Henry McKenna spent seven years masking the Patriots for USA TODAY Sports Media Group and Boston Globe Media. Follow him on Twitter at @henrycmckenna.
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