Whether it was ever a possibility or not remains to be figured out, but the national football media was adamant that a battle for the top quarterback spot in the 2025 NFL Draft did exist. Cam Ward and Shedeur Sanders began the pre-draft process neck-and-neck in that battle, but it was all exposed on draft night. Ward went first overall to the Tennessee Titans, while Sanders suffered from a shocking slide that didn’t end until the fifth round.
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Since then, the media coverage has squarely surrounded Sanders and the Cleveland Browns. The Browns are in the midst of a four-quarterback competition, and many want Sanders to win it; whether that’s possible or not remains to be seen. Meanwhile, Ward hasn’t been talked about much by the national media. It’s a trend that began even when he was selected No. 1 overall. Given that he was drafted to a smaller market and he doesn’t have the name recognition of Sanders, he has to ball out on the field in order to get everyone to pay attention. But he’s already made strides in his development that has the NFL opening its eyes.
Cam Ward is doing everything right while developing with the Tennessee Titans
Albert Breer of Sports Illustrated published a lengthy “Takeaways” report on Monday that delved into several topics, with Ward being the headliner. Breer points out that there’s been “little fanfare” around Ward, from the moment he was drafted to even now. But while doing digging to get some information about Ward’s development, Breer found something very interesting.
Why the Lack of Hype for Cam Ward?
“… coaches started filtering into the building during the 5 a.m. hour and noticed an occupied meeting room. In there, Ward had gathered the rookie skill-position players. As the coaches popped by, they asked what the guys were doing so early. It turned out, they were going over the script for the day and watching tape, with Ward himself running the show. It wasn’t a one-off situation, either.“
Ward has taken it upon himself to lead the rookies, as a quarterback naturally should. The fact that he was doing it without the coaches’ knowledge shows it came about through his own means. He felt it’s what he needed to do, without guidance.
Ward’s leadership was never really in question. What was a doubt was his ability to “talk the game”. As Breer points out, he couldn’t particularly explain certain things about football. He could do it all on the field, but he couldn’t necessarily “speak” it off the field. That has changed, as he’s “learning to talk football“.
“So the Titans knew before they drafted him that they’d be able to build a language for him to relay to his teammates what he was seeing. He could decode what a defense was doing to him in his head, but it was just a matter of going through the process of doing that. In a way, those meetings, where Ward leads the room, were his own way of working to put that new language to work and get his own practice at using it.“
While Ward is technically in a quarterback competition with Will Levis, everything is pointing to Ward being under center as the team’s starting quarterback in Week 1.
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