{"id":828134,"date":"2026-03-23T00:36:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T00:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/828134\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T00:36:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T00:36:27","slug":"titans-go-with-david-bailey-at-no-4-in-recent-four-round-mock-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/828134\/","title":{"rendered":"Titans go with David Bailey at No. 4 in recent four-round mock draft"},"content":{"rendered":"

March 22, 2026, 5:45 a.m. ET<\/p>\n

What direction will the Tennessee Titans<\/a> go with their first four selections in the 2026 NFL Draft?<\/p>\n

According to NFL.com\u2019s Chad Reuter,<\/a> the Titans<\/a> select Texas Tech outside linebacker David Bailey with the No. 4 overall pick in the draft.<\/p>\n

\u201cBailey’s excellent senior season locked up a top-five draft slot,\u201d Reuter said. \u201cThe Titans need his superb combination of power and closing speed on the edge, even after\u00a0trading for\u00a0Jermaine Johnson II.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bailey is one of the top prospects in the 2026 NFL Draft class. His skills, as well as his ability to sack the quarterback are attractive selling points for the Titans to consider. Bailey led the FBS in sacks in 2025 with 14.5.<\/p>\n

The Titans also select Alabama<\/a> wide receiver Germie Bernard (No. 35) in the second round, Cincinnati<\/a> linebacker Jake Golday (No. 66) in the third round, as well as Kansas State<\/a> center Sam Hecht (No. 101) in the fourth round.<\/p>\n

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Bernard went for 862 yards as well as seven touchdowns in 2025. Golday recorded 3.5 sacks, six tackles for loss as well as three passes defensed last season. Hecht allowed just seven total pressures on the year.<\/p>\n

More bodies for the Titans\u2019 pass rush is an expedient move for Tennessee, following the departure of defensive end Arden Key in free agency. Surrounding Titans quarterback Cam Ward with quality weapons is of paramount importance this offseason, which Bernard, Golday as well as Hecht have the potential to be at the NFL level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"March 22, 2026, 5:45 a.m. ET What direction will the Tennessee Titans go with their first four selections…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":727857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2061],"tags":[95878,7,6,96009,96010,97116,96342,95882,98073,103684,97034,110243,96218,95896,95888,96683,95906,96099,95883,95889,97478,526,394,2411,527,95881],"class_list":["post-828134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennessee-titans","tag-accessfree","tag-football","tag-nfl","tag-sstssportsnfltitans","tag-sstsntitans","tag-tag2026-nfl-draft","tag-tagalabama-crimson-tide-football","tag-tagamerican-football","tag-tagarden-key","tag-tagcincinnati-bearcats-football","tag-tagdremont-jones","tag-tagjermaine-johnson","tag-tagkansas-state-wildcats-football","tag-tagnational-sports","tag-tagnfl","tag-tagnfl-draft","tag-tagoverall-positive","tag-tagsec-conference-football","tag-tagsports-news","tag-tagtennessee-titans","tag-tagtexas-tech-red-raiders-football","tag-tennessee","tag-tennessee-titans","tag-tennesseetitans","tag-titans","tag-typestory"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828134","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=828134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/727857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}