{"id":859692,"date":"2026-04-07T21:13:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T21:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/859692\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T21:13:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T21:13:29","slug":"rueben-bain-titans-draft-trend-with-national-and-local-intel-is-something-that-we-should-have-realized-sooner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/859692\/","title":{"rendered":"Rueben Bain, Titans draft trend with national and local intel is something that we should have realized sooner"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rueben Bain is a really solid draft prospect at a big position of need for the Titans. But is he a good fit? Daniel Jeremiah shares the lasted that he\u2019s heard.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNov 1, 2025; Dallas, Texas, USA; SMU Miami Hurricanes defensive lineman Rueben Bain Jr. (4) warms up before the game against the SMU Mustangs at Gerald J. Ford Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Jerome Miron-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no doubt the Tennessee Titans need help at EDGE. It was arguably their top need coming into the offseason, and they\u2019ve done some work to address it before the draft. They trade for Jermaine Johnson from the Jets during Combine week, signed Jacob Martin in free agency from the Commanders, and made a big splash signing with John Franklin-Myers from the Broncos too. Myers has inside-out versatility, and all the writing on the wall points to him bumping outside as the \u201cbig end\u201d on one or two downs of each set he\u2019s on the field for.<\/p>\n

So they\u2019ve gone from a screaming need to a more straightforward one: This team has one remaining hole to fill at speed end, who hopefully can act as their EDGE1 in terms of pass rush production. Everybody knows the three names at the top of the 2026 NFL Draft class who are the most coveted edge rushers available. But one feels increasingly like a poor fit as we near draft weekend. Local intel has been pointing that way for a bit, and now Daniel Jeremiah is too.<\/p>\n

Daniel Jeremiah adds new intel to Rueben Bain and the Titans at 4<\/p>\n

On the latest episode of Peter Schrager\u2019s \u201cThe Schrager Hour\u201d<\/a>, Daniel Jeremiah of NFL Network had this to say about Bain being a popular connection to the Titans:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe other thing is, I know people are listening or\u00a0watching and go, well, what about Rueben Bain? There\u2019s\u00a0another pass rusher there. The stuff that I\u2019ve got out of\u00a0Tennessee is, I don\u2019t think they\u2019re a huge Bain team. Now\u00a0look, we\u2019ll see how accurate that ends up being. But I was\u00a0told that was that was not their guy. So we\u2019ll see.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s about as pointed as you\u2019ll hear DJ get at this stage of the draft season.<\/p>\n

It backs up the vibe locally from reporters like yours truly, who came back from many discussions at the annual NFL Owner\u2019s Meetings last week with little faith in a Bain selection at 4. In my pie chart of odds<\/a> for who I believe the Titans will draft in the first, I gave Bain an admittedly generous 10% chance. I wrote:<\/p>\n

\u201cA 1-in-10 chance is the best I\u2019m willing to offer the Rueben Bain hive after the owners meetings. The only reason I\u2019m not giving him longer odds is because of how many glowing things I heard from Titans people both on and off the record. Titans brass seems to think he won\u2019t have an issue lining up as a wide nine EDGE in the NFL, even despite his length and speed shortcomings. I can\u2019t say I totally agree with that, but fair enough! Maybe they see him differently than most of the draft community does!\u201d<\/p>\n

But I don\u2019t actually believe they see him differently. I think this is some classic lip service to the guy they know they don\u2019t really want. Anything to muddy their direction at 4 and pump up players who other teams could value that highly is added value to their own pick and position in this game. That would be good business on their part to operate in such a manner.<\/p>\n

The bottom line is that Bain is just a dubious fit for the Titans at this point for a variety of reasons. Chiefly, he is a significant physical outlier for a top-5 EDGE draft pick. His lack of length is concerning on paper, and even though I don\u2019t think it will manifest as a huge problem at the next level because of the specific ways in which he wins, he\u2019s an outlier nonetheless. He isn\u2019t a guy I see Mike Borgonzi falling in love with, and he certainly isn\u2019t a prototype of player who Robert Saleh has historically loved either. Saleh loves length and speed. That\u2019s David Bailey, not Rueben Bain.<\/p>\n

I still truly believe Bain will be a very, very good NFL player. Potentially even a great one! I just don\u2019t know which position that will be at. And I do not think it will be for the Tennessee Titans.<\/p>\n

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Tennessee Titans News<\/p>\n

Could the Titans take Carnell Tate at 4? I won\u2019t rule it out entirely. And neither will Daniel Jeremiah or Todd McShay based on what they\u2019re hearing\u2026<\/p>\n

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Tennessee Titans News<\/p>\n

The Titans have plenty of interesting options available to them at 4th overall in the 2026 NFL Draft, but who those options are is totally riding on how the Cardinals handle their pick at 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rueben Bain is a really solid draft prospect at a big position of need for the Titans. But…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":859693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2061],"tags":[4955,7,3403,6,71731,526,394,2411,527],"class_list":{"0":"post-859692","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennessee-titans","8":"tag-2026-nfl-draft","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-mike-borgonzi","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-rueben-bain","13":"tag-tennessee","14":"tag-tennessee-titans","15":"tag-tennesseetitans","16":"tag-titans"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116365494599977386","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859692","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=859692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/859693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}