{"id":95829,"date":"2025-06-01T14:20:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T14:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/95829\/"},"modified":"2025-06-01T14:20:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T14:20:11","slug":"nfl-insider-shares-update-on-cam-wards-chances-to-start-as-rookie-for-titans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/95829\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL insider shares update on Cam Ward’s chances to start as rookie for Titans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cam Ward<\/a> is exactly what the Tennessee Titans envisioned so far through OTAs and minicamps. The former Miami Hurricanes<\/a> QB and No. 1 overall pick looks like a star in the making already.<\/p>\n

At this point, it\u2019s a matter of when he\u2019ll start for Tennessee. Ward is in competition with former second rounders Will Levis<\/a>, Brandon Allen<\/a> and Tim Boyle<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Safe to say, Ward has the most upside of the bunch and the Titans are ready to put their investment front and center by the time September rolls around. If his work ethic is any indication, Ward has already won the job!<\/p>\n

\u201cThe work ethic has really shown up,\u201d ESPN\u2019s Jeremy Fowler<\/a> said on SportsCenter. \u201cThey knew pre-draft that he was all about that work, and he\u2019s shown it in the offices with the coaches. He\u2019s in there constantly, to the point where I was told they kind of had to kick him out of time. Like, look, man, we\u2019re good. We\u2019ve done for the day. We\u2019re locked in. You\u2019re ready to go.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cSo they\u2019re going to ease him into a starting role eventually. So right now, they\u2019re still sort of splitting reps, but they\u2019re going to give him more and more as the weeks ago, especially leading into training camp, he will be the starter at some point.\u201d<\/p>\n

During his final season, Ward looked like one of, if not the best player in all of college football. He threw for 4,313 yards, 39 touchdowns, seven interceptions and a 67.2% completion percentage.<\/p>\n

Being a No. 1 overall pick comes with a big time investment. Ward recently signed his four-year, $48.75 million rookie deal.<\/a><\/p>\n

All told, it\u2019s easy to see how Ward has taken to the next level like a fish to water. He emerged as the consensus top overall pick in the draft after a stellar season with the Hurricanes, previously playing at both Washington State<\/a> and Incarnate Word<\/a>, as well.<\/p>\n

Moreover, during his prior stops along his college football journey before playing for Mario Cristobal<\/a> in Coral Gables, Ward threw for nearly 7,000 yards and scored 61 touchdowns during his first two seasons with Incarnate Word at the FCS level. He would then become a more popular name in the sport, transferring to Washington State ahead of the 2022 college football season.<\/p>\n

He\u2019d ultimately spent two seasons with the Cougars. During his last season at Washington State, Ward completed 66.6 percent of his passes, throwing for 3,735 yards, with 25 touchdowns and seven interceptions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cam Ward is exactly what the Tennessee Titans envisioned so far through OTAs and minicamps. The former Miami…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2061],"tags":[13075,7,6,526,394,2411,527],"class_list":{"0":"post-95829","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennessee-titans","8":"tag-cam-ward-20-columbia","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-tennessee","12":"tag-tennessee-titans","13":"tag-tennesseetitans","14":"tag-titans"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114608552239537476","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95829","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=95829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}