Another NFL trade deadline has come and gone, and the Tennessee Titans weren’t nearly as active as some would have expected for a team that is 1-8, has fired its head coach and has a first-year general manager eager to make his impression on the roster.

Jeffery Simmons, Calvin Ridley and L’Jarius Sneed are still with the Titans. So are Chig Okonkwo, Arden Key, Tony Pollard and T’Vondre Sweat. In the days leading up to the Nov. 4 deadline, the Titans made three trades: Cornerbacks Jarvis Brownlee Jr. and Roger McCreary, and outside linebacker Dre’Mont Jones. They netted an upgraded fifth-round pick, an upgraded sixth-round pick and a conditional fifth-round pick that can become a fourth-rounder.

Now the Titans’ roster is what it is for the rest of interim coach Mike McCoy’s reign, and general manager Mike Borgonzi will have to wait until February at the earliest to add more draft capital. Here are some of The Tennessean’s grades, winners and losers now that the deadline has passed.

NFL trade deadline: Titans trade grades

CB Jarvis Brownlee: D-minus ― This trade didn’t make much sense in September, and it makes less sense in November. Brownlee’s playing well with the Jets; the Titans’ cornerback depth is abysmal; and the Titans ended up getting less in exchange for Brownlee, a growing player on a rookie deal, than the veterans on expiring contracts.

CB Roger McCreary: B-minus ― This is about as much as the Titans could’ve expected to get for McCreary, a nickel corner who hits free agency in the spring. It would’ve been nice to get a new draft pick rather than upgrade one via pick swap, but McCreary was likely to leave in free agency anyway. Best to get something.

OLB Dre’Mont Jones: A ― If Jones logs two more sacks in the Ravens’ last nine games, and if the 3-5 Ravens make the playoffs, the Titans end up getting a fourth-round pick for a nine-game sample of Jones. That’s not a bad investment. The Ravens, for what it’s worth, have the ninth-easiest remaining strength of schedule in the NFL, including five more games against divisional opponents.

Titans winners and losers from NFL trade deadline

Loser: Dennard Wilson ― Losing three defensive starters at premium positions is far from ideal for the Titans’ second-year defensive coordinator. Jones, in particular, was just coming on as a difference-maker. Couple the Brownlee, McCreary and Jones losses with the injuries to Simmons, Sneed and second-round pick Oluwafemi Oladejo, and Wilson is coaching the rest of the year without a full deck.

Winner: Offseason trade value ― The market rate for a star defensive tackle, as determined by what Dallas gave up for Quinnen Williams, is now a first-round pick, a second-round pick and a player. If the Titans are determined to move on from Simmons in the offseason — when his value might be even higher because he’ll be healed from his hamstring injury — that’s a heckuva starting point. Since the start of the 2024 season, Simmons has more sacks, tackles and run stuffs, and just one fewer quarterback pressure, than Williams.

Winner: “Development” ― Holding on to Sweat, a young player (24) drafted at a premium by a previous regime, is a sigh of relief for anyone nervous the Titans might have been giving up on a high-potential player too soon. But in a broader sense, keeping veterans like Okonkwo, Key and Pollard around can only help the Titans’ young players improve. No one benefits from everyone playing bad football.

Winner: Hypothetical trade offers ― The Jets aren’t being subtle about their rebuild. Nor are the New Orleans Saints. The Cleveland Browns don’t have a franchise quarterback, either. Now the Jets and Browns both have extra first-round picks, and the Saints added three mid-round draft picks at the deadline. If the Titans earn the No. 1 pick again in 2026, that’s an awful lot of ammunition to negotiate to get for it.

Loser: The 2025, and 2026, Titans ― The Titans straddled a weird line with this deadline. They definitely got worse, and they didn’t get enough back to feel good about reloading in time for next year. They still have oodles of cap space and can make trades to add more draft capital in the offseason, but as the resources stand now, this deadline didn’t set the Titans up to be all that much more competitive next fall.

Nick Suss is the Titans beat writer for The Tennessean. Contact Nick at  nsuss@gannett.com. Follow Nick on X @nicksuss. Subscribe to the Talkin’ Titans newsletter for updates sent directly to your inbox.