{"id":144659,"date":"2025-06-20T10:35:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T10:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/144659\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T10:35:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T10:35:10","slug":"tennessee-titans-elic-ayomanor-named-underrated-rookie-with-big-impact-potential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/144659\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Titans’ Elic Ayomanor named underrated rookie with big impact potential"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the Tennessee Titans<\/a> hope to usher in a new era of football in Nashville, they will be relying on a contingent of young players to push that development forward.<\/p>\n

It goes without saying that quarterback Cam Ward, taken with the No. 1 overall pick in the 2025 NFL draft, will be the one leading the charge. However, the pieces around him will play a key role as well.<\/p>\n

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Despite the presence of a handful of veteran wide receivers such as Calvin Ridley, Tyler Lockett and Van Jefferson, there\u2019s a chance some of the young players taken later in the draft wind up having an impact as well.<\/p>\n

In fact, Damian Parson of Bleacher Report<\/a> believes a big role could be in store for fourth-round pick Elic Ayomanor.<\/p>\n

Ayomanor is among the few receivers on the roster with the requisite height, weight and talent to play as the boundary X-receiver. His ball skills at the catch point will offer Ward a different type of receiver than he’s been accustomed to throughout his collegiate career.<\/p>\n

The 22-year-old tracks the ball well and plucks it out of the air with strong hands, potentially showing a reliable red-zone threat.<\/p>\n

Calvin Ridley is the unquestioned WR1 for the Titans offense while veteran Tyler Lockett mans the slot position, leaving the X-receiver spot up for grabs.<\/p>\n

If Ayomanor takes his momentum from OTAs and minicamp into training camp, the role will be his to lose.<\/p>\n

The Stanford product will have to climb the depth chart with a strong showing during training camp and the preseason, but the opportunity should be there for him to carve out a role alongside Ridley.<\/p>\n

At this point in the offseason, it\u2019s easy to harp on the upside that unproven players have, but Ayomanor has held that label since before the draft.<\/p>\n

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It may not happen right away, but Ayomanor will continue to be a player to watch for the Titans once they return for training camp.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Titans Wire: Titans’ Elic Ayomanor named underrated rookie with big impact potential<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the Tennessee Titans hope to usher in a new era of football in Nashville, they will be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2061],"tags":[4048,127,15379,756,7,6,526,394,2411,527,2864,5431],"class_list":{"0":"post-144659","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennessee-titans","8":"tag-calvin-ridley","9":"tag-cam-ward","10":"tag-damian-parson","11":"tag-elic-ayomanor","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-tennessee","15":"tag-tennessee-titans","16":"tag-tennesseetitans","17":"tag-titans","18":"tag-tyler-lockett","19":"tag-van-jefferson"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114715252300690035","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144659","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=144659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}