Daniel Jeremiah used his annual pre-NFL draft conference call on Tuesday to put two teams under the microscope: the Steelers, who have been combing the wide receiver ranks, and the Titans, who hold the fourth overall pick and are weighing whether to keep building around Cam Ward or follow a different path.
For Pittsburgh, Jeremiah said Washington wideout Denzel Boston makes sense at No. 21 overall. The payoff, in his view, would be size on top of size after the Steelers added Michael Pittman Jr. this offseason to DK Metcalf. “That would give them three giants out there,” Jeremiah said. He also pointed to Alabama’s Germie Bernard outside the first round, then singled out Georgia State’s Ted Hurst and Ole Miss’ De’Zhaun Stribling as fast-rising receivers, saying both had “a lot of heat” around the league.
Stribling, in particular, has kept climbing because he backed up the buzz at the combine. He ran a 4.36-second 40-yard dash and, in Jeremiah’s view, has paired speed with reliable hands and a sharp grasp of the game. “He catches everything,” Jeremiah said. “What also has helped him has been meeting with teams, (they) have been impressed with how football-intelligent he is.”
The Titans were the other team Jeremiah kept returning to, and the fourth pick is where his board gets interesting. Tennessee’s defense allowed the fifth-most points in the NFL last season, which would normally push a roster builder toward defense or the offensive line. Jeremiah said his natural instinct would be exactly that. But he also said he is breaking his own rule by still believing the Titans should take Notre Dame running back Jeremiyah Love, calling him a complete back who can do everything. Love weighs 212 pounds, Jeremiah said, and drew a comparison to the grades he gave Bijan Robinson in 2023 and Saquon Barkley in 2018, while saying the Love grade is higher than the one he assigned Jahmyr Gibbs.
That tension is what makes the decision so intriguing for Tennessee, which owns one of the top picks in a draft that opens Round 1 at 8 p.m. ET on April 23. Jeremiah called the Titans “a fascinating one” because the franchise could keep surrounding Ward with talent or use the pick to shore up a defense that has real holes. The answer will tell the story of whether Tennessee is trying to accelerate the rebuild with another weapon, or start with the parts that usually come first.
