Tennessee Titans fans who are focused on the team's long-term health are already cheering for a loss in the season finale to the Houston Texans to secure a top-two pick in the 2025 NFL Draft.
However, don't expect the players or the coaching staff to comply with your wishes. Brian Callahan and his assistants are trying to conclude the season on a high note and they don't care if that means missing out on adding one of the few supremely talented players in April's festivities.
With one regular-season game left to play in a wasted season, these five Titans have the most achievable goals in front of them heading into Week 18.
1. Arden Key
Key has had a career year with the Titans this season, but that isn't going to get much applause when you look at how disappointing the pass rush has been as a whole. Key currently has 11 tackles for loss, which is more than double his previous career-high (five), and his 6.5 sacks tie his previous best as a pass rusher. If the former LSU standout can get to the quarterback one more time this year, it will be a nice bounce-back season for a player that fans assumed was destined to be cut after this year.
2. Chig Okonkwo
Okonkwo has transformed his game from a boom-or-bust target in the passing game to a reliable player who makes tough catches and acts as a security blanket for his quarterback. Okonkwo has averaged 61 yards per game over the last three weeks, but only needs 51 to break his previous career high for receiving yards (528).
3. Harold Landry
Landry started the season with his hair on fire, but that has leveled off over the last few months, and it is hard to imagine that he will get two sacks on Sunday to push him to double-digits. However, Landry leads the team with 13 tackles for loss and if he can get two more, he will join Jevon Kearse and Jason Babin as the only two EDGEs with 15-plus TFLs in a single season in Titans history.
4. Calvin Ridley
It was a slow start for Ridley in Nashville, but he is now just 59 yards away from a 1,000-yard season. Since Ridley started hitting his stride in Week 8, he has averaged 75.8 yards per game, so this goal shouldn't be too hard to hit if the Titans are trying to get him across the mark.
5. Jeffery Simmons
This might be the hardest goal out of the group, but Simmons is playing well enough to consider it attainable. Simmons currently has 11 TFLs, and with two more, he'd join Albert Haynesworth and Jurrell Casey as the only Titans defensive tackles with 13-plus TFLs in a season. Considering all of the dirty work that he and T'Vondre Sweat have had to do to keep the linebackers clean this season, it would be nice if the Titans just pinned their ears back this week and let him make some splash plays.