Welcome to a different SB Nation Neighborhood Mock Draft!
As we do yearly, we collect up one “common supervisor” from every of our 32 NFL communities to assist placed on this huge first-round mock draft. The Tennessee Titans and proxy-general supervisor Jimmy Morris are up first, so let’s go forward and dive into our very first decide!
If you wish to win within the NFL, you could have a quarterback. It’s so simple as that.
The Titans bounced between the likes of Will Levis and Mason Rudolph as their beginning quarterbacks in 2024 however all that did was earn them the No. 1 total decide. Not prepared to danger being on this state of affairs once more anytime quickly, Morris is taking Miami quarterback Cam Ward with the first-overall decide on this 12 months’s neighborhood mock draft.
1. Tennessee Titans: Cam Ward, QB, Miami
Morris: Within the NFL you don’t have anything till you could have a quarterback. Cam Ward isn’t the proper prospect, however he has the instruments he must be a franchise quarterback. The Titans have spent a number of time with Ward and have develop into satisfied he’s their man. Now the main focus turns to including some playmakers round him.
Evaluation: Second-year head coach Brian Callahan and the Titans wish to flip round their group as quick as attainable and the quickest method to do this is to search out your quarterback of the long run. With the No. 1 decide, Tennessee can’t afford to cross on the highest passer in an in any other case underwhelming quarterback class in comparison with final 12 months’s crop.
The Titans’ supporting forged to encompass Ward is headlined by wideout Calvin Ridley, who’s coming off his second consecutive 1,000-yard season in his first 12 months with Tennessee. Ward may also be handing off to working again Tony Pollard, the one different participant in addition to Ridley who recorded at the very least 500 dashing and/or receiving yards for the group in 2024.
Ward’s outlook as a rookie will look so much higher than it presently does if former first-round decide Treylon Burks may discover his stride in Yr 3, on prime of the Titans with the ability to discover different offensive difference-makers on Day 2 of this 12 months’s draft.
Ultimately, I don’t assume the Titans may look wherever else with this decide. Abdul Carter has obtained to be intriguing, however what good is constructing an elite protection if it’s been powerful to search out even serviceable quarterback play already.
Morris makes the unsurprising, however right transfer right here.
High 5 remaining gamers:
- Travis Hunter, WR/CB, Colorado
- Abdul Carter, EDGE, Penn State
- Tetairoa McMillan, WR, Arizona
- Mason Graham, DT, Michigan
- Ashton Jeanty, RB, Boise State
Regardless of being the highest quarterback, Ward was not among the many prime 5 in SB Nation’s consensus huge board. In an underwhelming quarterback class in comparison with final 12 months’s crop, it is sensible with various bonafide blue-chip prospects at different positions forward of him. Now, groups selecting early who aren’t tied to discovering their quarterback of the long run could have their probability at some actual game-changers, together with Penn State’s Abdul Carter and Michigan’s Mason Graham.
