The Tennessee Titans signed another quarterback on Wednesday: journeyman Tim Boyle.
With all due respect to Boyle, who is probably a stand-up guy and great presence in a quarterback room, he will not be the starter in Nashville this fall unless something goes terribly wrong.
That sentiment also applies to recent Titans quarterback signee Brandon Allen and 2023 second-round quarterback Will Levis.
The Titans’ future starter is most likely not on Tennessee’s roster right now. That player is probably not a free agent. That player has pretty, pretty, pretty good chances of being taken with the first-overall pick in the 2025 NFL Draft.
It’s why ESPN NFL insider Adam Schefter’s Wednesday report about the Titans being “open for anything” makes your eyes roll.
Sure, Schefter is just doing his job and reporting what he hears, but is anyone actually buying this?
The Titans showing virtually no interest in any of the big free agent quarterbacks this month was as good a hint as ever that the team most likely has its eyes set on Miami quarterback Cam Ward.
The Titans and Ward seem to be drawing closer and closer together throughout the pre-draft process, even if the team won’t come right out and say Ward is their guy.
However, any talk of Tennessee trading the pick just seems kind of silly at this point. Unless some team sends them, like, five first-round draft picks and three blue-chip players, does it really make any sense for the Titans to deal?
Unless the Titans want to scramble to court quarterback Aaron Rodgers or trade for Atlanta Falcons quarterback Kirk Cousins, the options for a proven veteran starter are … pretty slim at the moment!
The options in the draft this year aren’t uniformly great, either, but the Titans hold the first-overall pick and have every availability to add the consensus best quarterback in Ward.
The team could quarterback punt the decision to 2026 and wait for the assumed Arch Manning sweepstakes, but who knows if they’ll land another first-overall pick? Why waste what you have?
This is not complicated; the Titans will most likely draft Ward, and all of the team’s moves are aggressively pointing in that direction.
Once we get to draft night in April, Ward will most likely be rocking a two-tone blue hat pretty early into the night. This is going to be the biggest non-story of the pre-draft brouhaha; don’t overthink it.
Ward will most likely be a Titan, and that will be that. The 2025 NFL Draft will really start after Tennessee picks. All the conjecture about any other scenario will get pretty tiresome until we finally get to draft night.