NASHVILLE – The Titans added nine players as part of the team’s 2025 draft class – six on offense, three on defense.
Titans President of Football Operations Chad Brinker said they all have a few things in common.
“Yeah, (they’re) big, fast, tough football players who love winning more than anything else,” Brinker said on Monday. “I mean, that’s a Titan. I really want — I think over time as you see how this unfolds, you might be able to draft them for us ahead of time because you’re going to see, ‘Oh, that looks like a Titan.’ There’s definitely a DNA we’re looking for in our players and I think everybody wants that, but it’s hard to find. You’ve got to do a lot of work and hopefully, those guys that we’re bringing in here will prove us right.”
Brinker and Borgonzi held the team’s post-draft press conference on Monday at Ascension Saint Thomas Sports Park, after making these picks over the weekend:
Round 1 (No. 1): QB Cam Ward, Miami
Round 2 (No. 52): Edge Oluwafemi Oladejo, UCLA
Round 3 (No. 82): S Kevin Winston Jr., Penn State
Round 4 (No. 103): WR Chimere Dike, Florida
Round 4 (No. 120): TE Gunnar Helm, Texas
Round 4 (No. 136): WR Elic Ayomanor, Stanford
Round 5 (No. 167): OG Jackson Slater, Sacramento State
Round 6 (No. 183): CB Marcus Harris, California
Round 6 (No. 188): RB Kalel Mullings, Michigan
During the press conference, Brinker and Borgonzi discussed the characteristics of the players, and the process of reshaping the team’s roster.
Borgonzi, in his first year as GM, said the expectation is the players will come in and compete right away, no matter the position.
Like Brinker, Borgonzi said the team was looking for high character players, and people, in the draft.
“I think it’s important they come in here with the right mindset, which they will,” Borgonzi said. “I think that was a big part of the traits and characteristics that we were looking for. Smart, tough, competitive guys, and usually that will help in the developmental part. Because like I said, all these players need to get better, they need to develop. But if you have those traits, usually that takes you over the edge to really compete and get better. So that’s a big part of it. All these guys are going to have to develop though. But when you have these high-end character traits, the work ethic that they put in, the time, weight room, film study, time in the film room, I think that helps them develop.
“Those are the type of people we’re trying to bring in here, high-character people. Some of them were captains on teams, but that helps elevate the culture in here. When those people come in here and they work, there’s a standard that we want to set here in this organization in terms of work ethic, accountability, being a good teammate. And all those guys check the box there. Look back to some of the free agents we brought in too. Like I said, if you keep on stacking those type of players in the locker room, that’s going to change the culture.”
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