NFL free company: Titans transfer may need tipped their NFL draft hand, Browns impacted

To navigate across the NFL draft board, always, you should have a superb poker face. Nothing could be revealed at any time. A participant that your staff covets simply may be snatched by a convention – or worse, a divisional – opponent, simply because they know you could have that man on laser focus mode.

Particularly if it’s a participant or a place that they will instantly use, possibly simply weren’t fairly able to draft that place that top. The underside line turns into: helps us, depletes them.

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The Cleveland Browns personal the #2 draft decide within the first spherical on this yr’s NFL draft held April 24-26 in Inexperienced Bay, Wisconsin. The Tennessee Titans personal the #1 total choice whereas the New York Soccer Giants maintain the #3 spot. All three groups completed 3-14-0 and alternate deciding on the highest slot in every spherical. The Browns choose first in Spherical 2 whereas the Giants take the primary decide within the third spherical.

Years in the past, the staff with the primary total spot would go forward and signal their prime decide and announce it. That technique has lengthy gone. Now, homeowners of the highest slots dangle their place contained in the pyramid to different groups in an effort to draw a commerce associate which may be keen to let go of high-round draft picks as a way to transfer up within the draft course of and mortgage the farm within the course of.

That’s the reason why the Titans haven’t revealed who they’re taking on the prime spot. They definitely know who they’re taking. The trick is, to not permit anybody else to know. Tennessee needs to bob the lure within the hopes that any person will wish to transfer up whereas the Titans don’t slide too far and find yourself with an equally monumental draft decide within the course of.

On the primary day of free company, they only could have tipped off the Browns.

However first, let’s perform a little digging.

Within the 2024 NFL draft, the Titans took RT J.C. Latham of Alabama with the seventh-overall decide in Spherical 1. Latham had been named First Crew All-SEC.

Within the 2023 draft, Tennessee selected LG Peter Skoronski of Northwestern with the eleventh total decide in Spherical 1 who was named First Crew All-Large 10 two years in a row, voted the Large 10 Offensive Lineman of the 12 months, and Unanimous All-American. Later in Spherical 6, they took OT Jaelyn Duncan, who was invited to the Senior Bowl.

In 2021, the franchise drafted RG Dillon Radunz from North Dakota State within the second spherical.

On the primary day of free company final yr, the Titans signed C Lloyd Cushenberry, who was named to the PFWA NFL All-Rookie Crew in 2020.

All they wanted was a left sort out. On the primary day of free company yesterday, Tennessee signed LT Dan Moore, Jr. to an $82 million deal after the Pittsburgh Steelers drafted him within the fourth spherical in 2021.

OL Coach Invoice Callahan

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Who’s the Titans’ offensive line coach? Former Browns O-Line coach Invoice Callahan who’s arguably the group’s greatest place coach within the NFL.

And if a franchise is methodically constructing among the best younger offensive strains within the league with an elite place coach on the helm, what does that offense want?

An elite quarterback.

Taking Miami’s Cam Ward with the second total decide could be a dash to the rostrum for the Browns. The second-ranked QB, nonetheless, Shedeur Sanders, is just not worthy of the #2 decide based on many. He may be an possibility with the primary decide in Spherical 2, however not the second total choice in Spherical 1.

The Titans could have proven Cleveland who they’re taking with the #1 decide.

Now you realize why Adam Schefter has modified his stance on the Browns taking a quarterback at #2. He was satisfied the Titans would take Penn State DE Abdul Carter, which would go away Ward for the Browns. He additionally is aware of that Sanders is just not worthy of such a excessive spot and is, due to this fact, not a fallback possibility for the Browns.

However now we all know who Tennessee will take after signing Moore.

“And with the first pick in the 2025 NFL draft, the Tennessee Titans select, Cam Ward, quarterback, University of Miami.”

The Cleveland Browns are actually on the clock.