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With the 2024 NFL regular season officially over, teams around the NFL, like the Tennessee Titans, are configuring their offseason strategies, from who they plan to pick in the 2025 NFL Draft to which free agents they feel are ideal fits for what they want to do.
Now normally, teams use free agency to fill holes before heading into the draft, adding, for example, a stopgap veteran cornerback so they don’t have to reach for a sub-par player early in the proceedings, but the Titans are the lone team who can write one player’s name in on their 2025 depth chart in pen, as they were awarded the first overall pick after Jerod Mayo’s Patriots secured a shocking Week 18 win in the death throes of his head coaching career.
Will the Titans use that pick to add an elite offensive tackle like Will Campbell, who could instantly start for at least half of the teams in the NFL on the left side or the right? Or maybe they go pure BPA, with Travis Hunter bringing the sort of star power Nashville has been missing since Derrick Henry and AJ Brown left town? You know, there are multiple quarterbacks who could see their name called at the top of the draft like Shedeur Sanders and Cam Ward, and others still like JJ McCarthy who could even be had via trade, should Tennessee believe he has the best draft evaluation of the group.
It’s a decision for, well, whoever ends up landing the Tennessee GM job, but no matter how it shakes out – let’s be honest, it’s going to be a quarterback one way or another – the Titans can’t afford to roll the dice and hope they leave the draft with a starting-caliber offensive tackle outside of the first round, as 2023 sixth round pick Jaelyn Duncan was a borderline disaster on the right side in 2023 and he simply can’t hold that spot for one game more, especially with a rookie likely spending much of the season under center.
After spending years as the Jacksonville Jaguars’ left tackle, Cam Robinson was traded with a seventh-round pick to the Minnesota Vikings midseason for a conditional fourth-round pick.
On paper, that’s a pretty good move for Robinson, as he went from a team fighting for the top overall pick in the 2025 NFL Draft to a squad that was a Week 18 win away from having the top seed in the NFC. But there is a problem that could impact Robinson’s future in 2025: Minnesota already has a left tackle in Christian Darrisaw and only traded for Robinson because he suffered a season-ending injury in Week 8.
Almost certainly set to test free agency in 2025, the 29-year-old out of Alabama will almost certainly be the top tackle on the open market and, thus, should be the Titans’ top target, too, considering they have a projected $50.7 million in free agency,...
