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Tennessee Titans 2025 NFL offseason preview: Will the Titans select a QB with the No. 1 pick?
2024 season: 3-14, fourth in AFC South, missed playoffs
Overview: The 2024 season was a disaster. The Will Levis era that never seemed like a good idea to begin with is in all likelihood over. In is new general manager Mike Borgonzi to replace Ran Carthon, who traded up to draft Levis and was fired after two seasons.
The good news in Tennessee is there are plenty of resources in terms of salary cap space and the No. 1 pick in the draft. It’s up to Borgonzi and crew to use those assets wisely.
Key free agents
WR Nick Westbrook-Ikhine
QB Mason Rudolph
S Quandre Diggs
K Nick Folk
RG Dillon Radunz
OL Daniel Brunskill
CB Darrell Baker Jr. (restricted)
WR Tyler Boyd
Who’s in/out: The Titans are thin at receiver, and Westbrook-Ikhine has been a reliable if unspectacular presence in five seasons in Tennessee. He tallied 32 catches for 492 yards and nine touchdowns last season while playing on a one-year, $2 million deal. He’s worth bringing back if the price remains low, but he isn’t a true No. 2 behind Calvin Ridley.
The Titans’ path at quarterback remains one of the biggest mysteries of the offseason. With Levis under contract and the options of signing a free agent and drafting a quarterback at No. 1 on the table, Rudolph could be on the way out.
Key free-agent needs
Quarterback
Wide receiver
Right tackle
Why the holes? The need at quarterback is obvious. Whether the Titans address that need in free agency (Sam Darnold, Russell Wilson?) or in the draft — or both — is the question here.
Regardless of whether Westbrook-Ikhine stays or goes, the Titans need to upgrade their receiver room. No Titan other than Ridley tallied more than 500 receiving yards last season.
The Titans selected their left tackle of the future, JC Latham, in the first round of last year’s draft. Right tackle remains unsettled after multiple players failed to establish themselves as the full-time starter in 2024. The Titans won’t be selecting a tackle in the first round this spring, so free agency could be the route.
Do they have the money?
Per Spotrac, the Titans have about $50 million in cap space available, the 10th-most in the NFL.
Notable potential cuts
There are no obvious candidates here.
The Titans have cap space to work with, and releasing productive higher-priced defenders like safety Amani Hooker (five interceptions, two forced fumbles; $8.6M in potential cap savings) or edge rusher Harold Landry (team-best nine sacks, 15 QB hits, 72 tackles; $17.5M in potential cap savings) doesn’t make sense. Both players are in their primes, and the Titans would have to replace them.
Draft picks
Round 1: No. 1
Round 2: No. 35
Round 4
Round 4 (from Seahawks)
Round 5
Round 5 (from Chiefs)
Round 6
Round 7 (from Packers)
Good draft fit
Cam Ward, QB, Miami
Why him? If you need a quarterback and you have the No. 1 pick, the pressure is high to select one, even in a quarterback class perceived as weak. Don’t expect the Titans to buck that pressure. The choice will be between Cam Ward and Shedeur Sanders, either of whom the Titans could end up selecting. Ward is generally assessed as the top option and the favorite to go first.
If the Titans go off script, Penn State edge rusher Abdul Carter and two-way Colorado star Travis Hunter would be non-quarterback options as the top talents in the draft.
Get serious at quarterback
The Titans are in a tough spot with the first overall pick in a class that lacks a consensus top passer. However, they can’t run into next season with a pairing in the same ballpark as the Will Levis and Mason Rudolph tandem. With a new GM in place and head coach Brian Callahan presumably more empowered to pick his guy at the position, expect the Titans to add multiple quarterbacks. Whether those additions rise to the level of “serious” remains to be seen. —Matt Harmon
West Tennessee Man Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison for Enticement of a Minor
Jackson, TN – Garrett Baughman, 19, of Wildersville, Tennessee, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for soliciting sexually explicit images and videos from a thirteen-year-old child. Joseph C. Murphy, Jr., Interim U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the sentence today.
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Baughman was charged with one count of production of child pornography; one count of use of a facility and means of interstate commerce to persuade, induce, entice a minor to engage in sexual criminal acts; and one count of receipt of child pornography. Following his guilty plea to the enticement of a minor charge, United States Senior District Judge J. Daniel Breen sentenced Baughman to 20 years in prison and five years of supervised release. There is no parole in the federal system.
Additionally, Baughman must comply with the conditions of the Sexual Offender Registry upon his release.
This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse, launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice. Led by the U.S. Attorneys’ Offices and the DOJ’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who exploit children, as well as identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit https://www.justice.gov/psc.
This case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Nashville-Jackson Resident Agency Child Exploitation Task Force and the Henry County Sheriff’s Office. Assistant United States Attorney Caroline Parish prosecuted this case on behalf of the government.
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The Associated Press has released a new batch of college football rankings following week three of the 2025 college football season.
Week three of the 2025 college football season is in the books as teams all across the country turn their attention to week four. With another exciting week of college football now complete, the Associated Press has released another batch of college football rankings.
Multiple exciting games took place over the weekend and resulted in some massive upsets. Multiple teams inside the top-15 were upset, as 12th-ranked Clemson was defeated by Georgia Tech, 11th-ranked South Carolina was handled by Vanderbilt, and eighth-ranked Notre Dame suffered a shocking loss to Texas A&M at home.
The Georgia Bulldogs were another team to play in an exciting matchup, as they won an overtime thriller against the 15th-ranked Tennessee Volunteers on the road. The victory was the Bulldogs’ ninth consecutive win over the Vols and their fifth straight in Neyland Stadium.
The Bulldogs will be off for week four as they partake in their first bye week of the 2025 season. The Dawgs will return to action on Saturday, September 27th, when they host the Alabama Crimson Tide in Athens. It will be the first meeting between these two teams in Sanford Stadium since 2015.
Editor’s note**: This article will be updated as the rankings are released
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