{"id":140421,"date":"2025-06-18T19:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T19:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/140421\/"},"modified":"2025-06-18T19:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T19:50:09","slug":"rookie-qb-cam-ward-is-the-titans-mvp-candidate-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/140421\/","title":{"rendered":"Rookie QB Cam Ward is the Titans&#8217; MVP candidate in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It won&#8217;t take much for the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/tennessee-titans\/336\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Tennessee Titans;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Tennessee Titans<\/a> to improve in 2025 over what they did in 2024; winning just four games would get the job done. That&#8217;s not the goal, of course, the goal is always to win as many games as possible. But the Titans are in a rebuild this year, and they&#8217;re not expected to be contenders for much of anything.<\/p>\n<p>Still, every team has an MVP candidate, right? The one guy who would get it as the best player on the team. And even though it&#8217;s unlikely he will win the actual MVP this season, it shouldn&#8217;t surprise anyone that Pro Football Network names Cam Ward the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.profootballnetwork.com\/every-nfl-team-2025-mvp-candidate\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Titans&#039; best MVP candidate;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Titans&#8217; best MVP candidate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Cam Ward might be the biggest long shot on this list, and not because of talent. He\u2019s a rookie, and the Tennessee Titans aren\u2019t expected to contend in 2025<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s possible Tennessee surprises people, but a playoff push feels like a reach. That said, there\u2019s real excitement around Ward, who went No. 1 overall after a stellar season at Miami and was widely viewed as the most NFL-ready QB in the class.<\/p>\n<p>The Titans also made moves to help him succeed. They upgraded the line with Kevin Zeitler and Dan Moore Jr. while also adding Tyler Lockett. Ward has a steep hill to climb, but he has some help.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Ward may not win the MVP award this year, but it&#8217;s not out of the question for him to win Offensive Rookie of the Year and follow in Jayden Daniels&#8217; footsteps.<\/p>\n<p>And, no matter the probability, even the smallest possibility is still a possibility. Unlikely as it is, it&#8217;s not impossible!<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Titans Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/titanswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/titans\/2025\/06\/18\/cam-ward-tennessee-titans-mvp-candidate-2025\/84262978007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Cam Ward is Titans&#039; MVP candidate in 2025;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Cam Ward is Titans&#8217; MVP candidate in 2025<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It won&#8217;t take much for the Tennessee Titans to improve in 2025 over what they did in 2024;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2061],"tags":[127,12785,7,734,6919,216,6,7127,526,394,2411,4045,527,2864],"class_list":{"0":"post-140421","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennessee-titans","8":"tag-cam-ward","9":"tag-dan-moore-jr","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-jayden-daniels","12":"tag-kevin-zeitler","13":"tag-miami","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-pro-football-network","16":"tag-tennessee","17":"tag-tennessee-titans","18":"tag-tennesseetitans","19":"tag-the-titans","20":"tag-titans","21":"tag-tyler-lockett"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114706109273811819","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}