2025 NFL Draft: Adam Schefter updates Titans plan with potentially trading pick or taking Cam Ward

Inching closer to the 2025 NFL Draft, one thing is becoming apparent. The Tennessee Titans will be selecting Cam Ward with the No. 1 overall pick. Ward has long been presumed to go in that spot but the question has been, who will take him?

ESPN’s Adam Schefter explained the process as to how the Titans are working toward landing on Ward as their guy. Multiple workouts have taken place over the past few weeks. Multiple members of the organization, even ownership, have been a part of the process.

“With each day that goes by, it feels like the chances of the Titans selecting Cam Ward rise and the chances of them trading that pick fall,” Schefter said Tuesday on ESPN2. “They seem to have fallen more and more in love with Cam Ward after private workouts, public workout, visits at the Combine, visits at Tennessee. They even had the Titans owner at the private workout last Friday at Miami to meet and talk with Cam Ward. Everything the organization has gotten back from Cam Ward has been favorable.”

Tennessee started by saying they were not going to pass on a generational talent. This led to Abdul Carter or Travis Hunter being mocked to the Titans. If Ward was going to be taken No. 1 overall, somebody was going to trade up. The Cleveland Browns and New York Giants were (and still are) rumored to be interested in making a deal.

Unless something historic comes through, Schefter says the Titans will keep their pick. Ward appears set to be the franchise quarterback moving forward. Nobody ever hopes to have the No. 1 overall selection but when given the opportunity, it must be taken advantage of.

“Right now, he is tracking to be the No. 1 overall pick and we’ve been saying that for weeks now but it feels like it’s been reinforced,” Schefter said. “Unless the Giants or Browns can make some kind of unforeseen, gargantuan offer that the Titans can’t turn down, Cam Ward is going to No. 1 to Tennessee.”

Ward would be the third consecutive quarterback to be taken with the first pick, and ninth in the last 11 years. While he has not been Tennessee’s guy throughout the entire process, Schefter is heavily pointing toward him being it at the most important time — when Roger Goodell is at the podium on April 25 in Green Bay.