If anyone should know the impact a new head coach will have on him, it’s Titans rookie quarterback Cam Ward.

Since starting his college career at the University of Incarnate Word in 2020, Ward has played for five head coaches in six years — three on the college level and two in the NFL.

So it makes sense that the No. 1 pick in the 2025 draft — expected to be the face of the franchise for years to come — has already told Titans President of Football Operations Chad Brinker and General Manager Mike Borgonzi he wants to have some input related to the search and hiring of Tennessee’s next head coach.

Mike McCoy is serving as interim head coach now following the October firing of Brian Callahan. But McCoy is unlikely to be retained as the permanent head coach.

“Yeah, I’ve had conversations with [Brinker and Borgonzi] about being involved,” Ward said Wednesday.

“They know how much I want to be involved. Not even with the scheme part of it, just as the head coach [first and foremost], who he is on an everyday basis, and then just being able to scheme what I know I’m good at, what I want to do, what he thinks will also help me.”

Plenty of candidate names have been tossed about in speculation regarding the Titans’ job.

There are those with connections to either Brinker or Borgonzi. These include longtime NFL head coach Mike McCarthy, who worked in Green Bay with Brinker, as well as Chiefs offensive coordinator Matt Nagy and defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo, who were colleagues of Borgonzi in Kansas City.

Others, like former Titans offensive coordinator Arthur Smith — who is currently Pittsburgh’s offensive coordinator — have ties to ownership and front office executives here.

Then there are the usual “hot” coordinators around the league, a group that could encompass the likes of Los Angeles Rams defensive coordinator Chris Shula, San Francisco defensive coordinator Robert Saleh, Buffalo offensive coordinator Joe Brady and Seattle offensive coordinator Klint Kubiak.

Ward wants to speak with anyone who walks through the doors.

“I want to meet all of [the candidates],” he said. “Every coach who’s going to get an opportunity to come here, I want to meet them, have conversations throughout the whole process with them. Because that’s someone I’m going to be here with for that time.”

Ward didn’t state a preference — offensive or defensive — for the background of the new coach. However, he said he feels confident that whoever is named will make sure every player is in the right place, set up for success.

For the time being, Ward and his teammates will simply have to wonder who might next lead them.

Is that cause for anxiety?

“It’s not difficult,” Ward said. “I think [the new coach] will come in with the right attitude that we want to win. They’ll be coming into a place [that is] going to be behind him. The guys in the locker room will be all in on this head coach.”