{"id":859621,"date":"2026-04-07T20:11:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T20:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/859621\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T20:11:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T20:11:26","slug":"hc-robert-saleh-praises-titans-rb-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/859621\/","title":{"rendered":"HC Robert Saleh Praises Titans’ RB Group"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Titans have frequently been mentioned as a landing spot for Jeremiyah Love<\/a> in the upcoming draft. Tennessee holds the fourth overall pick, so the team will likely have the opportunity to select the consensus top running back prospect.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Love is indeed among the players who have conducted a pre-draft visit<\/a> with the Titans, and the Notre Dame product would offer a significant boost to their offense. On the other hand, Tennessee\u2019s defense has been an area of focus during free agency. New head coach\u00a0Robert Saleh\u00a0has spoken about the upside to selecting one of the top edge rushers in this year\u2019s class, and interest on that front has been shown recently through the decision to host several pass rush prospects.<\/p>\n

The other factor being considered with respect to Love is Tennessee\u2019s existing depth chart at the running back spot.\u00a0Tony Pollard<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Tyjae Spears<\/a>\u00a0are both set to return in 2026. The same is also true of\u00a0Julius Chestnut<\/a>,\u00a0while\u00a0Blake Watson<\/a> and Kalel Mullings<\/a>\u00a0are familiar faces for the Titans as well. Saleh recently spoke highly of that collection of backs when addressing the possibility of making a high draft investment in the backfield.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love our backfield, I love our running back room right now,\u201d\u00a0Saleh, the 49ers\u2019 defensive coordinator in 2025, said (via the team\u2019s website<\/a>).\u00a0\u201cPollard dropped over 100 on us [last season] so I think he\u2019s pretty good. And then Spears has tremendous versatility as a three-down back and they both play with a physical mindset\u2026 I\u2019m a believer in our backfield and I think it\u2019s a group that can help our team. I look at our running back room as one of the better ones in football.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course, those remarks will not discount the possibility of Tennessee taking Love in the first round or making a less notable move at the position later on. Nevertheless, they point further toward Saleh\u2019s preference being a defensive addition within the top five of the Day 1 order. An edge rusher such as David Bailey<\/a> is likely to be an option at No. 4. Bringing in a receiver in the first round could also offer considerable value to a team which ranked 30th in total and scoring offense in 2025.<\/p>\n

Saleh and general manager Mike Borgonzi will have a number of decisions to make over the coming days with Tennessee holding nine total selections in this year\u2019s draft. It will be interesting to see how the team approaches the running back spot later this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Titans have frequently been mentioned as a landing spot for Jeremiyah Love in the upcoming draft. Tennessee…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":801233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2061],"tags":[7,6,526,394,2411,527],"class_list":{"0":"post-859621","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennessee-titans","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-tennessee","11":"tag-tennessee-titans","12":"tag-tennesseetitans","13":"tag-titans"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116365249591873186","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859621","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=859621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/801233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}