Coaching Staff
Head Coach: Robert Saleh
Offensive Coordinator: Brian Daboll
Defensive Coordinator: Gus Bradley
Special Teams Coordinator: John Fassel
2025 Summary (W-L Record: 3-14)
2025 could not have gone worse for the Titans. Instead of providing their rookie QB with a stable situation he could properly develop in, they gave him the exact opposite.
The Titans fired head coach Brian Callahan just 6 games into the season. Mike McCoy took over as interim head coach to finish out the year, and then Robert Saleh was hired in January.
Which means Cam Ward has now had as many head coaches in 1 year in the NFL as Tom Brady did in 23 seasons.
It’s not what you want for your franchise QB.
Check out Tennessee’s 2025 numbers to get a feel for how ugly it was:
Along the way, the Titans didn’t surround Ward with much support. The protection ranked 30th in pressure % allowed. The run game ranked 30th as well.
Titans receivers didn’t provide much help either.
They couldn’t stretch the field (The Titans ranked 27th in air yards per completion and 25th in completions of 20 yards or more).
They couldn’t do much when they had the ball in their hands (24th in yards after catch per completion).
They also weren’t very reliable (11th in drop %).
It’s tough to gauge exactly how Ward performed given what he had around him.
Defensively, Tennessee had an equally rough season, finishing in the bottom-5 in points and yards per play allowed. They did a decent job of stopping the run, but by and large, they were just as disastrous as the other side of the ball.
As a result, the Titans overhauled damn near the entire roster heading into 2026, as you can see below.
Key Additions
RB Nicholas Singleton (5th Rd, 165th Overall)
RB Michael Carter
WR Carnell Tate (1st Rd, 4th Overall)
WR Wan’Dale Robinson
TE Daniel Bellinger
TE Kylen Granson
C Austin Schlottmann
RG Cordell Volson
OT Austin Deculus
OG Fernando Carmona (5th Rd, 142nd Overall)
DL John Franklin-Myers
DL Jordan Elliott
DL Solomon Thomas
DL Jalyn Holmes
DL Khalen Saunders
EDGE Jermaine Johnson II
EDGE Jacob Martin
EDGE Keldric Faulk (1st Rd, 31st Overall)
LB Anthony Hill (2nd Rd, 60th Overall)
LB Mohamoud Diabate
CB Alontae Taylor
CB Cordale Flott
CB Joshua Williams
S Tony Adams
Key Losses
WR Van Jefferson
WR James Proche
TE Chigoziem Okonkwo
C Lloyd Cushenberry III
RG Kevin Zeitler
OT Oli Udoh
C Corey Levin
DL Sebastian Joseph-Day
DL T’Vondre Sweat
DL James Lynch
EDGE Jihad Ward
EDGE Arden Key
CB Darrell Baker
CB Jalyn Armour-Davis
CB L’Jarius Sneed
S Xavier Woods
S Quandre Diggs
Biggest Questions Entering 2026
What can we expect from Cam Ward in his second season?
Ward was too imprecise throughout his rookie season. He completed less than 60% of his passes for an astonishingly low 5.9 yards per attempt, which ranked 33rd in the NFL.
He also threw just 15 touchdown passes. And while it was encouraging that he finished the year with only 7 interceptions, he did turn the ball over 14 times (Tied for 7th-most in the NFL).
You can blame the lack of help around him for much of his poor performance, but not all of it. In particular, his ball placement was sporadic at times:
The undisciplined nature to his game and his desire to make big plays got him in trouble often:
It was a messy season overall.
The good news for Tennessee is that Ward showed improvement and seemed to settle in as the season progressed.
Through his first 9 games, Ward completed just 57.6% of his passes, threw 5 touchdowns, 6 interceptions, and had a 72.1 passer rating.
But through his final 8 games, he completed 62.4% of his passes, had a 10-1 TD-INT ratio, a 90.0 passer rating, and cut his sack rate nearly in half.
And as we all saw last season, the Titans have a ton to work with since Ward is a very physically gifted quarterback:
It’s all in there. But the situation he was in last year was not ideal for drawing it out. We’ll see if that changes this season.
Check out my full Cam Ward 2025 breakdown below:
Breaking Down Cam Ward's Rookie Season
“He’s going to be a great quarterback in this league. He’s kind of, I ain’t gonna lie, [he’s] got a Mahomes feel to him when [he’s] out there. Being able to extend plays while still having his eyes down the field. [He’s] a phenomenal young quarterback, and he went #1 for a reason.”
Do the Titans have enough around Cam Ward to help him flourish?
A year ago, no wide receiver on the Titans’ roster had more than 48 receptions. GM Mike Borgonzi made sure to rectify that this offseason.