Rochester native and Illini WR Hank Beatty signs with Tennessee Titans as undrafted free agent.<\/p>\n
Beatty was Illinois\u2019 top wide out in 2025, leading them in receiving yards and was the ultimate gadget for OC Barry Lunney \u2014 Beatty also ran wildcat and threw a touchdown in trick plays for Illinois\u2019 best offense in 15 years.<\/p>\n
Beatty was also a top Big Ten punt returner for two seasons, which coaches said helped his NFL-stock.<\/p>\n
Despite going undrafted, Illini coaches said multiple NFL teams reached out to them about landing Beatty.<\/p>\n
He joins a Tennessee franchise led by former No. 1 overall pick QB Cam Ward, and they\u2019re looking to supply him with weapons at wide out.<\/p>\n
ESPN said Beatty had the best hands of any NFL Draft prospects, with zero dropped catches in 2025.<\/p>\n
In college, Beatty was used as a slot receiver, and had a breakout season in 2025 after sitting behind players like Isaiah Williams and a loaded wide out room.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rochester native and Illini WR Hank Beatty signs with Tennessee Titans as undrafted free agent. Beatty was Illinois\u2019…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":875018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2061],"tags":[321,3617,7,6,9,526,394,2411,527],"class_list":{"0":"post-875017","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennessee-titans","8":"tag-content","9":"tag-fighting-illini","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-tennessee","14":"tag-tennessee-titans","15":"tag-tennesseetitans","16":"tag-titans"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116470099707254463","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875017","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=875017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/875018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}