Peter Schrager reveals insider intel: Titans' draft board shifts dramatically, moving away from a top offensive talent towards defensive needs.
The Tennessee Titans are inching closer and closer to the 2026 NFL Draft.
There's been a lot of different answers thrown around lately by General Manager Mike Borgonzi.
Jeremiyah Love, Sonny Styles, and Arvell Reese have been the topic of discussion lately when it comes to which player the Titans will take at No. 4.
Tennessee is at a crossroads.
If they take Love, they could be getting one of the best offensive prospects in the draft, who will bring a lot of versatility to the backfield. However, with Styles or Reese, you would be getting a linebacker that could transform your defense, or a Swiss-Army Knife of a player that could help fix this team's glaring need at edge rusher.
Borgonzi recently shared that as a GM, you want to find players that your coach wants, which hints at Robert Saleh's specialty on defense.
Saleh is still looking for that fast, physical presence at inside linebacker that he's had with Fred Warner at the San Francisco 49ers, and so many of his previous stops.
Still, if we're going with the best player available method, that has to mean that the Titans are realistically taking either Love or maybe Styles, right?
Not according to ESPN's Peter Schrager. He believes that the Titans are no longer taking Love at No. 4.
"Well, I spoke with someone in the organization in Tennessee, and they told me that they have seen six different players tagged to them this morning for their fourth overall pick by people in the media," Schrager said. "Six. There's the fourth overall pick, and six different players have been tagged to them. I will say this, I don't think the Titans are taking Jeremiyah Love anymore. I am moving off that. That was something I had in my mock draft and felt like that was the pick. As we are now four days before it, I do not think the Titans are taking Jeremiyah Love at four."
Instead, he thought that the Titans would select either Styles, David Bailey, Arvell Reese or Carnell Tate.
"I think the Titans are taking one of the two following players," Schrager said. "Sonny Styles, the linebacker out of Ohio State, or the [David] Bailey, [Arvell] Reese, who doesn't go there or is available. And then my third backstop would be Carnell Tate. Yeah, Carnell Tate could go as high as four."
Luckily for the Titans, they are in a position where either of those picks would fill a need for them. Even if they don't get Love, Styles gives Saleh the linebacker prospect he wants.
Reese or Bailey would give the team an edge rusher to help fix the inconsistencies in the pass rush, which ranked 14th last season. Tate would add depth to a receiver room that so desperately needs it.
Who knows? Maybe the Titans are still in the market for Love when it's all said and done. We've seen crazier things happen in previous drafts.