The Tennessee Titans may be the worst team in the NFL once again in 2025, which could lead to them selling off some of their more important pieces for any semblance of NFL Draft capital. Mike Borgonzi has officially opened the floodgates by parting ways with cornerback Roger McCreary.
The Titans traded McCreary, who is in line to be a free agent at the end of this season, to the Los Angeles Rams. The Rams will acquire McCreary and a conditional sixth-round pick in the 2026 NFL Draft, while Los Angeles will send a conditional fifth-round pick back to Tennessee.
With names like Arden Key and Chig Okonkwo on the trading block, Tennessee is open for business. However, Borgonzi needs to get more for either of those players than the relatively paltry return that he brought back from LA in the McCreary trade.
Titans underwhelm fans by trading CB Roger McCreary to Rams
The Titans have now traded two starting cornerbacks in the last month, as they only received a sixth-round pick from the New York Jets in exchange for Jarvis Brownlee Jr. With Brownlee playing some of the best ball of his career in New York, many fans might be regretting that trade.
Heading into an offseason where Borgonzi already needed to build Ward a solid offensive line and add multiple playmaking receivers to make up for a putrid 2025 unit, he now needs to build this secondary into even a below-average NFL unit. Borgonzi's offseason checklist is even longer.
While McCreary seemed like a player who was destined to leave in free agency, only getting a fifth-round pick back (which originally belonged to Tennessee by way of the Ernest Jones trade) seems like Borgonzi was in a rush to get a deal done and took the first genuine offer available.
McCreary is never going to be an All-Pro corner, but he is a rock-solid slot cornerback who could find a new home in a Rams defense that has consistently been tough to beat despite not investing a ton of capital in their secondary. Borgonzi had better nail that fifth-round pick.