{"id":859755,"date":"2026-04-07T22:22:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T22:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/859755\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T22:22:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T22:22:34","slug":"tennessee-titans-2026-nfl-draft-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/859755\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Titans 2026 NFL Draft Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Titans struggled over the course of the 2025 NFL season, but ended the season playing better football after the firing of Head Coach Brian Callahan. First overall pick Cam Ward<\/a>\u2019s confidence and play drastically progressed as the season went on.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Jeffery Simmons<\/a> was the best interior defensive lineman in football last season. He posted a career-best year all around and was rewarded with an AP All-Pro selection. Cedric Gray<\/a> was incredible in his first full season with the Titans, as he led the team in tackles and was second in the NFL with 97 solo tackles.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTitans Draft Picks:<\/p>\n

Round 1: Pick 4<\/p>\n

Round 2: Pick 35<\/p>\n

Round 3: Pick 66<\/p>\n

Round 4: Pick 101<\/p>\n

Round 5: Pick 142<\/p>\n

Round 5: Pick 144<\/p>\n

Round 6: Pick 184<\/p>\n

Round 6: Pick 194<\/p>\n

Round 7: Pick 225<\/p>\n

The Titans sustained losses of four starters during this free-agency cycle. This included starting tight-end Chig Okongko, starting offensive guard Kevin Zeitler<\/a>, starting defensive edge Arden Key<\/a>, and starting defensive tackle Sebastian Joseph-Day<\/a>. Other notable exits include the likes of Darrell Baker<\/a> Jr., Corey Levin<\/a> and Van Jefferson<\/a>. The Titans\u2019 losses are easily replaceable through free agency or the draft.<\/p>\n

Titans Positions of Need:<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tKey Draft Targets for Titans:\u00a0 \u00a0
\nJeremiyah Love<\/a> \u2013 RB \u2013 Notre Dame<\/p>\n

Love is the best player in the draft, hands down. The kid is as electric as anyone with the ball in his hand and makes people miss in space. The Titans need to look best available at No. 4 and Love is the best available.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Love is rated<\/a> as a top-five prospect, so the Titans will only get one opportunity to select him at No. 4.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Titans struggled over the course of the 2025 NFL season, but ended the season playing better football…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":859756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2061],"tags":[7,6,526,394,2411,527],"class_list":{"0":"post-859755","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\/116365764127015347","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859755","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=859755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/859756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}