Welcome to a different SB Nation Neighborhood Mock Draft!
As we do yearly, we collect up one “basic 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 choose!
If you wish to win within the NFL, it’s good to 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 general choose. Not keen to danger being on this state of affairs once more anytime quickly, Morris is taking Miami quarterback Cam Ward with the first-overall choose 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 might have a quarterback. Cam Ward is just not the right prospect, however he has the instruments he must be a franchise quarterback. The Titans have spent quite a lot of time with Ward and have turn 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 need to flip round their staff as quick as attainable and the quickest method to try this is to search out your quarterback of the long run. With the No. 1 choose, 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 solid 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 even be handing off to working again Tony Pollard, the one different participant apart from Ridley who recorded at the very least 500 speeding and/or receiving yards for the staff in 2024.
Ward’s outlook as a rookie will look loads higher than it presently does if former first-round choose Treylon Burks may discover his stride in Yr 3, on high of the Titans having the ability to discover different offensive difference-makers on Day 2 of this 12 months’s draft.
Ultimately, I don’t suppose the Titans may look wherever else with this choose. 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 high 5 in SB Nation’s consensus large board. In an underwhelming quarterback class in comparison with final 12 months’s crop, it is sensible with quite a few bonafide blue-chip prospects at different positions forward of him. Now, groups choosing 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.
