The Tennessee Titans are one of the most interesting teams in the NFL this year.
Cam Ward finished his rookie year with a very strong month of football, and now his team has a leader at head coach, a proven ball-knower at OC, and new impact players all across the roster. On top of all of that, there has been a complete rebrand, and this is also the last year in the current Nissan Stadium before moving into their lavish new indoor stadium.
With all of that swirling around, it is very easy to miss out on some interesting developments that need to be tracked. One of those is when or if the Titans will be able to trade Will Levis.
Titans to enter training camp with urgency surrounding Will Levis' future
After a year of recovery, Levis is perfectly healthy and participating with the Titans as they head into training camp. While fans look at Levis and see a guy whose self-inflicted wounds have led him to his current position, that might not be what the whole league sees.
While he has plenty of flaws, Levis is still a former second-round pick with a big frame and some athleticism who has started 21 games (on bad teams), but who still managed to amass over 4,000 yards, 22 total touchdowns.
Again, the film doesn't show a player that teams should be desperate to trade for, but when you look at backup quarterbacks around the NFL, it is rough out there. Trading for Levis would get some team a bigger, stronger backup with real experience and untapped upside on a cheap one-year deal.
The question is, how long will the Titans wait to pull the trigger? Will they try to ship him off before training camp for a team that wants to have a legitimate competition between their backup quarterbacks? They could attempt to be opportunistic and wait for a quarterback to get injured before pushing him hard on the trade market. Then again, they didn't trade Malik Willis until August 26th, so maybe the team sits back and waits until the last minute to make sure they don't need him.
Levis' progress and his trade market are very interesting for the Titans because there have been some wild overpays for quarterbacks in the past at this time of year. Just a few years ago, the Arizona Cardinals traded a fifth-round pick for Joshua Dobbs, so things like this do happen if GMs happen to catch a team in a tight spot.
By all means, pay attention to the major storylines at training camp, but don't sleep on the one surrounding Levis' future, because GM Mike Borgonzi is definitely going to be doing his best to maximize assets.
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