INDIANAPOLIS — Titans common supervisor Mike Borgonzi labored a no-daylight schedule for many of February to reach on the NFL Scouting Mix together with his draft board set.
“Section 1,” Borgonzi stated Tuesday morning on the Indianapolis Conference Heart of step one in a protracted highway to deciding how — and whether or not — to make use of the No. 1 total choose within the 2025 NFL Draft.
Nonetheless open for enterprise, the Titans are focusing first on free company — that board of accessible gamers is finalized, too — and quite a few wants previous to the official begin of the 2025 league 12 months subsequent month.
“Offensive line goes to be a precedence for us,” stated Borgonzi, who was employed in January to interchange Ran Carthon and get on the identical web page with returning coach Brian Callahan.
The brand new Titans’ braintrust has been assembly throughout lunch hours to go over “profiles” for each place, described by Borgonzi because the athletic, bodily and psychological make-up of a participant. He stated the Titans will not move on a particular participant as a result of he does not match their most popular prototype. Requested immediately about one acquainted expertise on this draft pool, Colorado’s broad receiver/defensive again Travis Hunter, Borgonzi grinned.
“He is particular,” Borgonzi stated. “I do not know if we have seen in fashionable soccer a participant who might (play) each at a excessive stage.”
A self-scout of the roster he inherits is basically full, Borgonzi stated, noting he actually likes the inside line of defense in place and that he hung out with coaches to seek out out extra about who gamers may be in conferences and on the follow area. He talked about broad receiver Calvin Ridley, the big-ticket signing final March on a four-year, $92 million deal, and defensive tackles Jeffery Simmons and T’vondre Sweat as returning veterans who will help drive the group’s turnaround from 3-14.
Self-discipline was a buzzword all through the 20-minute session, and in repeating the Titans are very early of their analysis course of, Borgonzi stated third-year quarterback Will Levis stays on the roster to compete however acknowledged the place is one the Titans should “get proper.” This week will not play a significant function in shifting the first-phase draft board in Nashville and solely “small adjustments” can be mandatory based mostly on pace scores and different testing.
Even so, all indications from his second session with nationwide media since becoming a member of the Titans from the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs’ entrance workplace is the Titans are open to dealing the No. 1 choose for added draft capital.
“We’re at all times going to attempt to collect as many picks within the High 100 as we will,” Borgonzi stated.
–Jeff Reynolds, Area Stage Media