The Tennessee Titans entered the 2025 NFL Draft hoping Miami quarterback Cam Ward could become their franchise answer. One year later, he is still being measured against a roster that gave him very little help and a team that remains stuck near the bottom of the quarterback conversation.
Brian Gagnon of Bleacher Report ranked Tennessee No. 10 on a list of the worst quarterback situations going into the 2026 NFL Draft, pointing directly at Ward’s uneven first season. Gagnon wrote that, as the No. 1 overall pick in 2025, Ward averaged a league-worst 5.9 yards per attempt, was the lowest-rated passer among quarterbacks with more than 10 starts and took an NFL-high 55 sacks. He also threw for over 3,000 yards with 15 touchdowns and seven interceptions despite extremely limited help.
That production came in Ward’s first year as a pro, and much of it unfolded in a turbulent setting. Brian Callahan worked with him for a short time during the season before Tennessee moved on from the coach early, leaving Ward to navigate a new voice and a thin offense in the same year he was supposed to settle in.
The larger picture helps explain why the number feels harsh, but not out of nowhere. The Titans had a ton of roster holes last year, and the lack of help around Ward showed up in the stats Gagnon used to frame the evaluation. Tennessee’s biggest move for him was bringing in Brian Daboll as offensive coordinator, but the team had to wait to get him because he was in the running to become the head coach of the Buffalo Bills before Buffalo promoted Joe Brady instead.
That leaves Tennessee in a familiar spot: relying on Ward to prove he can be more than a promising draft pick while still rebuilding the structure around him. For now, the league is treating the Titans as a team with one of the NFL’s weakest quarterback setups, and Ward’s second season will go a long way toward deciding whether that label starts to fade or hardens into something more permanent.