Titans executive Chad Brinker refuted a recent report that the team was engaging in talks to trade quarterback Will Levis
“That’s a false report,” said Brinker, the team’s president of football operations (via senior team reporter Jim Wyatt). “We have not contacted anybody, and nobody has contacted us, about Will Levis.”
Levis was the Titans’ second-round pick in 2023 and took over as the team’s starting quarterback midway through his rookie year. In 2024, he made 12 starts, missing three games in the middle of the season due to injury and splitting time with Mason Rudolph to end the season. The Titans were interested in re-signing Rudolph, according to Wyatt, but he opted to return to Pittsburgh instead.
Rather than dealing Levis, the Titans see him as a potential starter in 2025, even if they were to use one of their top draft picks on a quarterback.
“The plan with Will Levis is he has a chance to compete for a starting job next year,” said Brinker. Even if he doesn’t win the job, his youth, athleticism, and familiarity with the Titans offense will likely keep him in place as a backup.
Brinker added that the team would prefer to have four quarterbacks heading into training camp. Currently, they have three: Levis, Brandon Allen, and Tim Boyle, the latter two of whom were signed to one-year deals in free agency. Brinker came up in a Packers organization that frequently had four quarterbacks in training camp, per Main Street Media’s Terry McCormick.
Brinker’s comments further indicate that the Titans will draft Miami quarterback Cam Ward with the No. 1 pick, giving the team their fourth quarterback who can enter training camp competing with Levis for the starting job.
lolz
GM never mentioned anything about what happens with #1 pick, who ever submitted this article needs to get their facts straight.
No question the Meme-able Mayo boy will be battling Lance in the CFL next year.
I would absolutely take that bet if for no other reason than the likelihood of Levis sitting on someone’s practice squad rather than heading to Canada this early in his career.
Why even refute this story? Are they afraid to look bad by making it look like they think he actually has value?
To keep up the appearance that the first pick is still attainable if someone overpays. Even if it’s not.
Unless someone is offering them a 4th round pick I don’t see the point of trading him. Cheap QB backups with two years worth of starts are very valuable. Even if they draft a QB in the first round, I would rather have Levis than Brandon Allen or Tim Boyle
Completely agree. Levis is a bad starter but quality backup.
Who looked at this guy’s tape and thought to themselves ” him! – we need him!”
They don’t want to move him just in case of the unlikely scenario that someone trades up for the first overall pick, and then they’re left with Brandon Allen & Tim Boyle as their top two quarterbacks.