B-
Tennessee Titans
The steal of the weekend belongs to the Titans and Slaughter: B-.
by dagray08 ·
2026 NFL Draft
· 12 picks
· 10 steals
· 0 reaches
Thirty-one other rooms let Jake Slaughter slide, and the Titans were the ones holding the card at pick No. 101. Highway robbery.
They will regret leaving interior defensive lineman for another day if the season turns on it. They gave back a little on the phones for the right to move.
A tidy weekend of work that should hold up just fine.
Pick-by-Pick
In the 18th overall pick they get a downhill thumper at linebacker, outstanding value to boot. A real need, handled.
They barely believed it either: Avieon Terrell still on the board at the 35th pick. Not urgent, but hardly pointless.
They let Dillon Thieneman come to them and pounced at the Round 2 slot. A quiet depth add at a thin-ish spot.
They read the board right and Eli Stowers was the payoff at slot 66. It plugs a real leak on the depth chart.
Jake Slaughter at pick No. 101 is daylight robbery; nobody expected him to last. This was priority one on the needs board, and now it is handled.
They stopped a slide they were happy to see, landing Jaishawn Barham in No. 142. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.
Will Lee III in pick 144 should not have been possible, and that is the whole point. Pure best-available; the position was not exactly begging.
Kevin Coleman Jr. at Round 5, Pick 23 is right where the board had him, plain and simple. The roster fit checks out.
Seth McGowan at pick No. 184 is a sensible buy, a touch better than market for the running back. A glaring weakness, addressed head on.
A quiet steal in slot 194: Keagen Trost for less than the market said. They walked in needing this and walked out with it.
Cyrus Allen in the 196th overall pick is the kind of fall that makes a whole class. Another box on the needs board, quietly ticked.
A tidy bit of business in the 225th pick, where TJ Hall graded well above the range. A want dressed up as a pick, at a spot they had covered.