Sitting successful this quiescent play of the NFL offseason is simply a drag, with thing but rehashed takes and speculation populating the media landscape.
Now, with a small implicit 2 weeks until rookies study to grooming campy for the Tennessee Titans, fans are counting down the days until campy begins, erstwhile they tin spot however each the changes from an eventful offseason travel together.
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Tennessee made important changes and volition footwear things disconnected with a caller coaching unit nether Robert Saleh, an overhauled roster featuring coagulated veterans and intriguing rookies, and a caller cognition crossed the organization. Unfortunately, contempt each the changes, immoderate outlets stay skeptical of the Titans heading into 2026.
Mike Clay, Aaron Schatz, and Seth Walder of ESPN interruption down each of the Titans' offseason moves, comparison their roster to the different 31 NFL teams, and find that their projected starting lineup is inactive adjacent the bottommost of the league.
No. 28: Tennessee Titans
Biggest strength: Wide receiver
The Titans invested heavy present during the offseason to crook a weakness into a strength, signing Wan'Dale Robinson (one of 4 receivers with 90-plus catches each of the past 2 seasons) to a four-year, $70 cardinal declaration and selecting Carnell Tate with the 4th prime of April's draft. That duo volition squad up with seasoned Calvin Ridley, and second-year players Chimere Dike and Elic Ayomanor volition adhd coagulated depth. -- Clay
It is an ironic twist that Clay picked the receiver radical arsenic the team’s spot aft what they surrounded Cam Ward with successful 2025. The additions of Robinson and Tate are huge, and the instrumentality of a steadfast Ridley is flying nether the radar, but honestly, that radical does not stack up against the rebuilt antiaircraft line.
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General manager Mike Borgonzi and Saleh added a batch of acquainted endowment to the beforehand portion gathering astir Jeffery Simmons, and the portion present has aggregate proven interaction players that should origin problems for opponents heading into the season.
Biggest weakness: Safety
Amani Hooker has been an every-down subordinate successful Tennessee since 2021, but helium has missed 21 games due to the fact that of wounded during that span. Struggles successful sum past play helped opposing quarterbacks station a 58.7 QBR against the Titans, the third-worst people successful the NFL. Second-year antheral Kevin Winston Jr. played 297 snaps arsenic a rookie but volition present conflict seasoned newcomer Tony Adams for the different starting gig. -- Clay
Safety could decidedly beryllium a weakness and is an country to ticker successful camp, though the caller strategy being installed by Saleh and antiaircraft coordinator Gus Bradley should help. The Titans’ secondary was a messiness successful some 2024 and 2025, aft injuries ravaged the unit, and often had Hooker playing with unfamiliar faces, which included Winston, who had an uneven rookie run and dealt with lingering injuries coming disconnected the torn ACL that outgo him astir of his last twelvemonth astatine Penn State.
Tennessee enters grooming campy with immoderate extent questions down Hooker, Winston, and Adams, and could look to adhd different seasoned to the backmost end.
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X factors for 2026: CB Alontae Taylor and CB Cor'Dale Flott
Both were signed arsenic extracurricular escaped agents, and I was skeptical of some deals, but they could beryllium maine wrong. If they (and Joshua Williams, who could beryllium absorbing extent astatine the position) tin deliver, past the Titans' defence would commencement to look rather a spot much threatening. If not? Opposing quarterbacks mightiness person respective bully passing games against Tennessee. -- Walder
Signing Taylor, Flott, and Williams was a spot of a astonishment aboriginal successful the escaped bureau period. While determination was nary uncertainty that Borgonzi needed to adhd to the unit, it’s doubtful anyone expected 3 speedy signings to fortify 1 of the roster's weaker units.
Nonstarter to know: Edge rusher Keldric Faulk
We cognize that Robert Saleh likes to rotate his antiaircraft linemen, truthful the Titans' 2nd first-round prime volition get sizeable playing clip this season. Faulk had lone 2 sacks past play astatine Auburn, but his operation of size and explosiveness suggests helium tin beryllium a batch much palmy astatine the NFL level. He's a project, though, truthful that occurrence mightiness not travel close away. -- Schatz
While galore accidental that Faulk is simply a task coming disconnected a down play astatine Auburn, the Titans saw capable successful Faulk to commercialized backmost into the archetypal circular to prime him, and for bully reason. Faulk has each the traits to beryllium palmy successful Saleh’s system, and, looking backmost astatine his tape, helium played amended than his stats indicated. Many hide that, anterior to the commencement of the 2025 assemblage season, Faulk was wide considered a imaginable Top-5 prime with the pedigree to marque an impact.
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Looking astatine the projections utilized successful this nonfiction by Clay, Walder, and Schatz, linebacker Anthony Hill would beryllium different nonstarter to support an oculus on. Hill has each of the tools to marque an interaction and has flashed rather a spot during offseason workouts.
This nonfiction primitively appeared connected Titans Wire: Tennessee Titans projected starters ranked adjacent bottommost of NFL
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