Locked On Titans - Daily Podcast On The Tennessee Titans - CAM WARD SCOUTING REPORT: Generational Playmaking, Elite Confidence & Decision Making Improvements
Episode Date: April 7, 2025The Tennessee Titans are locked in on selecting Cam Ward #1 overall in the 2025 NFL Draft and he brings a lot of great things to the table, but there are also some areas to clean up as well. First, Wa...rd's generational playmaking instincts shine throughout his tape, showing off poise, confidence and a laser arm that led to elite college production at multiple stops. However, Ward does need to clean up his decision making to account for a lack of elite physical abilities which will require playing more on-time football and faster processing. Finally, Ward fits well with Brian Callahan's offense due to his proficiency with quick timing throws and crossing routes down the field, but adding more RPOs and shotgun will be key to making Ward comfortable. Subscribe to the TicTacTitans Film Channel:https://www.youtube.com/@TicTacTitans TicTacTitans Merchandise: https://dixons-dream.square.site/shop/tictactitans-gear/C3AAPNWXSXA6SBYG3USV2I7R?page=1&limit=30&sort_by=category_order&sort_order=asc Follow Tyler on Twitter @TicTacTitans Follow the show on Facebook @LockedOnTitansPod Subscribe to the Locked On Titans YouTube channel:https://www.youtube.com/c/LockedOnTitans/videos Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!ChewyChewy has everything you need to keep your pet happy and healthy. And right now you can save $20 on your first order and get free shipping by Clicking this link: https://prf.hn/click/camref:1011l3Huc8/creativeref:1011l164602GametimeDownload the Gametime app, create an account, and use code LOCKEDONNBA for $20 off your first purchase. Terms apply. Download Gametime today. What time is it? Gametime. Monarch MoneyTake control of your finances with Monarch Money. Use code LOCKEDONNFL at monarchmoney.com for 50% off your first year.FanDuelRight now, new customers can get TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS in BONUS BETS when your first FIVE DOLLAR BET WINS! Download the app or head to FANDUEL.COM to get started. Bet with FanDuel—Official Partner of the NBA. FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN)
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The Tennessee Titans will be selecting Cam Ward number one overall and it's time for a full scouting report.
I'm going to tell you what Cam Ward does best, what he needs to improve, and how he fits in Brian Callahan's offense on today's edition of Locked on Titans.
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table and what is so exciting about Cam Ward as a prospect. And I'm going to talk about
some of the things that need to be cleaned up at the next level. Also, we'll talk about
how he fits in Brian Callahan system and what things from his college tape work into what
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But with that being said, when we talk about what Cam Ward brings to the table.
So number one, Cam Ward, six foot one, five inches, 219 pounds, a great build.
Is it prototypical size for an NFL quarterback?
No, but I think we've seen throughout the last few years over and over and over again,
that you don't need to be the six foot four behemoth that previous generations of the NFL thought that you had to be to be a successful quarterback. A
ton of quarterbacks and the most successful quarterbacks don't necessarily meet that
prototypical size but Ken Ward is big enough. He's built thick as well which I think will make him
be durable at the NFL level. He can take the shots. He can take the beating. That is an NFL season. So from a physical standpoint, his size, stature.
I like what, what we have here from Cam Ward. It's, it's nothing to be concerned about in any way.
It's perfectly fine. It checks the box. But when you get to the type of player that he is,
when you turn on the tape, what are you getting from Cam Ward? Well, the number one thing that
stands out, it's truly generational playmaking. I'm not saying that cam ward is a generational
prospect. I'm saying his knack for playmaking and his second reaction
ability and his ability to throw from different arm angles and different arm
slots and different places. It's not even just different arm angles.
There's a play against cow, the game winning touchdown against Cal, where he is literally
throwing the ball, his arm is in front of the pass rusher and he's finding a window
between the edge rusher and the interior rusher and he's throwing it between them for a quick
screen that turns into a touchdown and the game winning touchdown and a massive comeback.
Like his ability not only to throw from different arm angles, but then of course to play Sandlot football and to literally
go from one side of the field to the other side of the field and
backtrack and throw across his body and keep plays alive and find guys down the field and let his wide receivers run
It really is backyard football. Okay now there's downsides to that style of play
But his ability to offer that to this team the playmaking to win in the NFL nowadays, you have to
have off schedule playmaking date. Jalen hurts Patrick, my homes, Lamar,
Jackson, Josh Allen, like the quarterbacks that were left, Jane Daniels,
the quarterbacks that make make it to the very end, how some sort of when the
play breaks down, what can you do? And Cam Ward's ability to bring it to the very end, have some sort of, when the play breaks down, what can you do?
And Cam Ward's ability to bring that to the table is generation, quite frankly. His ability to play
with different arm angles when he throws the ball, find different windows to get the ball out,
extend plays, keep plays alive. It's unbelievable. And that's why you see a lot of people compare
him to Steve McNair, because his ability to keep plays alive and the way that he does it, shrugging off defenders and moving
back and forth throughout the pocket.
It's incredible.
And the poise is what allows them to do it.
Cam ward is constantly confident, cool, and clutch.
So many comebacks this year where his team got down.
Cause the defense wasn't great.
There were mistakes made by the offense as well, but Ken Ward was able to lead
his team to a ton of comebacks.
And when you watch him in the pocket, he like makes these back foot throws and
these nonchalant plays is what I'll call it, where he just doesn't seem like
he's trying that hard.
And he just has such a great understanding.
It does remind me in some ways of Luka Doncic in basketball, where Luka isn't
the most
insane, explosive, freakish athlete.
He's not as explosive as LeBron James was, but he's just so calm, so cool.
The game is going so slow for him that he's able to see things so clearly.
And it allows him to play with that nonchalant style where it looks like
he's not playing super hard, but really he's just so many steps ahead of his competition.
So he's always, always cool, always keeps his composure, manages the pocket, makes plays in the clutch all the time.
Like he's just always going to be a steady metronome for the offense.
And when you have that sort of steady personality, not only leading your offense, but leading your franchise.
It's hard to turn that down when you have the number one pick. Right.
And then of course he has a laser arm.
Now I will say it's not, he's not going to be a top five arm in the NFL immediately.
He's not, I don't even know if he would be a top 10 arm in the NFL, but I would say he's above
average.
He's probably somewhere from eight to 16, probably 10 to 16 would be more fair.
But his ability to throw the ball to any place on the field is unquestioned.
Like you're not worried about Kim Ward having the arm to make all the throws.
And to see some of the throws that he made on tape where he's college hash marks are wider than NFL hash marks.
So some throws he's on the far hash mark and he's throwing all the way across
the field to the other sideline and it's, and it's on a rope.
It's a spiral on a rope.
You know what I mean?
Like that sort of stuff.
Yes.
Cam Ward won't have the arm that maybe Patrick Mahomes does, or Cam Ward
won't have the arm that will Levis has to drive the ball down the
field and with velocity, But it's a plus
arm in the NFL. His arm isn't going to be a concern at the next level. So when you have the ability
to make all the throws and then you add in the mobility that Cam Ward brings to the table,
and again, it's not elite mobility. We're not talking about Josh Allen or we're not talking
about Jane Daniels. We're not talking about Lamar Jackson, but I would compare it to Patrick Holmes level of mobility.
I would compare it to Dak Prescott level of mobility.
I would compare it for a throwback to Donovan McNabb level of mobility.
Tony Romo level of mobility.
A Dante Culpepper level of mobility.
He can get out of the pocket.
He can use his legs.
He can pick up yards when it's available, he's not going to
outrun a cornerback to the corner, like him and linebackers are going to be racing to the spot,
but he's smart about how he uses his running, he's smart about how he uses his legs, and again,
he's got a thick sturdy frame, so he can, you know, power through a little bit if he needs to,
and he's smart enough and the game's going slow enough where he can make a guy miss
who may be as faster than him just because he's playing smart.
So the mobility is a plus on his card
and the arm is a plus on his card even if they're not elite traits in their own.
So I'm giving him massive credit. Those are pros on his card and on his report.
The production, man. or pros on his card and on his report, the production man, like led the nation
and touchdown passes with 39 in his final year at Miami over his career,
66% completion percentage, 11,281 yards, 87 touchdowns, 23 interceptions,
400 rushing yards, 17 rushing touchdowns.
And that's Miami in the two years at Washington.
That's elite production.
If you're somebody who was like, Oh, what'd they do at the college level?
Well, all he did was lead two programs to respectability, put Miami back on the map.
Won a ton of games and put up a bunch of great stats.
So if you're somebody who's just like, Oh, what'd they do at the college level, did they produce or they, they weren't
even good.
Cam Ward was good in college.
It was excellent college finished fourth in the Heisman
voting won the Davy O'Brien won the Manning award.
Like this is an elite decorated college player.
And then you add in the mental aspect his leadership.
We talked about the story from Michael Irvin telling his wide receiver to get
down to camp, you see the clips on the sideline of him motivating his team and
getting his team ready to go.
He doesn't seem like a guy who does it for the cameras on purpose.
He seems super authentic and genuine.
And that's why his teammates love him.
He's willing to study.
He's a guy who's in the film room first, on the practice field first.
He showed up to his pro day hours early to get ready, get the script right, be ready to go, be prepared.
And he loves football. He loves football.
So, the playmaking, the confidence, the calm demeanor, the physical traits with the mobility in the arm,
the elite college production, the adaptability to go from incarnate word as a zero-star recruit
to Washington State to Miami and be loved at every place and be a leader at every place and produce at every place.
Like the journey, the production, the mental makeup, the football character, the physical traits.
What else could you want?
He's bringing all that to the table.
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Titans fans. Let's continue today's edition of the locked on Titans podcast.
A little scouting report for cam ward.
I have gone through cam ward's tape twice now.
I've watched some games three times.
I feel as prepared to have conversations about cam ward as I've ever been very
excited by what I saw, but there are certainly things that need to be cleaned up.
And again, I know that the way that this works sometimes is people say, Oh, well,
I know that cam ward's going to be a Titan.
So any criticism that anybody has for cam ward, I'm shoving it.
It's dumb.
It's stupid. He's great
No, we're not listen look with every player even a guy like Mahomes
There are things that they do. Well, there are things that they don't do as well that they need to improve upon
It's a real thing. No player is truly a perfect player. So keep that in mind when we go over this stuff and
Do want to let you guys know I am gonna be putting out a full film breakdown on Cam Ward.
I'm going to go over all of this stuff that I'm talking about on my Tic Tac Titans film channel on YouTube on Tuesday.
So that's going to be out at some point, either early in the morning or midday.
It's going to be available, but a full, it's probably going to be 45 minutes the way that I go on about cam ward
But again the tape to match up with the conversation we're having right now
And I do that tic tac Titans film channel on YouTube so get subscribed to that if you want to match this stuff up
But talking about what needs to get better
So the number one thing obviously is the decision-making
Cam war just makes some crazy decisions i mean there's a play in that
cow game the cow game in my opinion get if you want to watch one game to truly understand the
good and the bad of cam ward i think cow is the one that gives it to you because there is a play
in that game where he misses a couple of guys not playing on time. Could have gotten the ball out multiple times
twice and then starts to extend the play when he should have
already had the ball out of his hands and then throws a cross-
body throw all the way across the field up in the air and it
gets intercepted and taken back for a pick six. Like just
insanity. Like what are we doing?
Okay. Now that stuff got better at the end of the year. Like it improved throughout the season,
which is great. But that it's a double-edged sword. And I don't know about you guys,
but some of my best qualities can also sometimes be my worst qualities. Okay.
sometimes be my worst qualities. Okay. And Pam Ward's best quality is that generational playmaking knack and his sandlot ability. But sometimes he leans
on it too much. And I think in college he could get away with it because it's
college, but at the NFL level a much larger percentage of those sandlot
opportunities that he created and takes are
going to turn into bad plays because it's the NFL.
The windows are smaller.
The guys are faster.
You can't just constantly back up and run from one side of the field to the other side
of the field like it's Madden.
You're not going to be able to, he's going to be able to do that because that's his game.
That's his bag, but it's not going to work as well as it did in college.
So the decision making and when to take those chances, when to extend those
plays, when to let the play die, going from college to the NFL, that will be
the biggest challenge for Cam Ward, in my opinion, is tuning the decision-making
on those big-time opportunities and those second reaction plays, which is
something that a guy like Patrick Mahomes had to do.
You know, like that.
It's something that a lot of college quarterbacks who can put Caleb Williams is trying to do
it right now.
Figuring out how to tune that is important.
But with that, within that decision making, if Ken Ward can play on time more early in
the season, specifically, there are a lot of times where he can extend the play.
So he does when in reality, the better play in the better NFL play
will be to play on time.
Hit the check down, hit the quick in route, hit the dump off.
Like don't try so hard to extend things.
So playing on time and playing within the structure of the offense more often is something he's going to have to do at the NFL level. And that in itself will
make the decision making easier. And it'll limit the opportunities that he has to make bad decisions
if he just starts to play on time and trust the offense and just, you know, dump it off, get the
ball out of his hands a little bit more often. You don't want to, what you don't want to do is you don't want to take, you know,
uh, uh, a sprinter and make them do long distance.
Like we don't want to take away cam ward's best asset and put them in a box
and put them in a cage.
You don't want to do that, but it's about just tinkering it a little bit,
adjusting it a little bit, which is something like a Josh Allen went through
with the turnovers
and the decision making, you know, it's different for Cam Warden, the decisions that are being made,
but that's important. Also got to clean up the footwork. That's just a mechanical thing. And I
will tell you, I am not a quarterback guru. I am not out here telling, Oh, look at the mechanics
of the quarterback. But there are people smarter than me who study quarterbacks who you can go
watch. Like a guy like Kurt Warner does great work on YouTube
But Kurt Warner has talked about the footwork and making sure the foot because cam when we talk about the calm cool poised
demeanor the nonchalant style of play that he has
That can result in some bad plays as well
Because he doesn't necessarily feel like he needs to get his feet set all the time and he feels like he can throw with these different arm
angles and falling away on the back foot and sliding to the left and throwing right or
rolling out to the left and throwing back right and across body different things like
that.
He feels like he can do all of that because he's so confident in his demeanor and he's
calm and he's poised and he's ready to accomplish it.
But there are certain windows that's not going to work for in the NFL.
You're going to have to get your feet in a better place.
And there are some little inaccuracies that Cam Ward has at times on film where it's an
easy throw, like a little check down to a running back and he just throws it behind
him more.
You know, he's got a wide open crosser and it's a little behind him because he just isn't
getting his feet set because he feels like he can make it
You're just gonna have to clean that up and be a little bit better at the NFL level
but
The next thing that I want to talk about is the physical stuff because as I talked about in the first segment
He's got a laser arm. He's got good mobility
But neither of those traits are elite. He's not gonna have a top five arm
He's not gonna have a cannon and there are some throws on tape
Especially deep throws down the field when he's got a guy beat downfield
I'm not talking about a post route or a cross or underneath the deep
Field safety. I'm talking about a go route down the sideline
got a guy wide open and
go route down the sideline. Got a guy wide open and he'll throw it up a little too high. He doesn't drive it down the field quite as much as a Josh Allen or a Patrick Mahomes,
you know, the big bazookas in the league that can really fire it downfield. So really good
arm can laser it anywhere on the field, but his deep accuracy does need to get a little
bit better because he can't just out throw everybody and it's on tape.
So the arm is good.
The mobility is good, but neither of them are elite in my opinion.
Okay.
And that shows up with the deep outside throws.
Like I'm talking about, that is the worst area the worst kind of
throw that Ken Ward has is a deep throw on the sideline he you know he just isn't consistent
enough there he's good in the intermediate in the deep areas over the middle of the field but to the
outside he really starts to struggle and again that's the the arm strength is not elite. It's just really good.
It's above average.
It's not elite and that we see struggles with the accuracy on the deep outside, because I think he knows he has to put a little more into it to get it where he
wants it and that can mess with the accuracy and if the footwork is better
and he's throwing off a better platform, maybe that all cleans up at the next
level, but it is something to watch.
It is something to watch for sure.
And you know, everybody from college to NFL has to process a little faster, but
cam ward was not great under pressure.
And I don't mean the pressure of a game.
I mean, pressure in the pocket.
He was good against the blitz, but when he actually got, he would fade back so
much that he was rarely under pressure.
When he was under pressure, he definitely took a dip in his production
so
Processing faster, so he feels less pressure
That'll be good for him
Also, it's fair to say he played in the ACC. It's a weak schedule
Can he afford to be as nonchalant at the NFL? Can he rely on the playmaking
and the just good athleticism as much at the NFL level? Will he be able to clean up the
feet consistently to just play more on time and have less issues with the little accuracy
things? Those are all big questions. Those are all things that need to improve. Now,
I think the good stuff certainly outweighs those questions that we have. But ultimately it's about Cam Ward fitting within the Tennessee Titans system.
And I think there are a lot of things on tape that show that Cam Ward is a scheme fit for
what Brian Callahan wants to do and wants to be philosophically.
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Titans fans. Let's cap off today's cam Ward scouting recap edition. Recap Cam Ward scouting report edition of the
locked on Titans podcast. We've gone over what makes Cam Ward special, what Cam Ward does well.
We've gone over some of the things that need to get cleaned up that he didn't do as well in college
that could still improve. But I want to talk about his fit with what Brian Callahan does because
But I want to talk about his fit with what Brian Callahan does because
I was listening to a conversation the other day. I think it was a John Ledyard and Greg Rosenthal on the, uh,
the new NFL daily or whatever.
They were talking about quarterbacks and Ledyard was saying, he doesn't know
how Kenmore fit in Brian Callahan's offense.
What is Brian Callahan's offense was a question that was asked.
Uh, I think that's the right show.
I listened to so much NFL content.
It's, it's hard to keep it all together, but you know, what is Brian Callahan's offense? Will it fit?
And I gotta tell you, I think, I think it is a clean fit. I think Ken Ward does fit very well
in Brian Callahan's offense. Now, as a reminder, I'm going to be showing you on tape how Ken Ward
fits in Brian Callahan's offense with my cam ward scouting breakdown
that will come out on the tic tac titans film channel on Tuesday. So make sure that you get
subscribed over there, set the notifications, get ready for that. It's going to be a long one,
but I'm going to go over all this stuff. But the two man game, just the quick little routes.
There's two wide receivers on one side of the field. Think about it's cover two. The outside
receiver runs a vertical route down the sideline. The inside receiver, the slot runs a quick out route.
If it's cover two and the outside cornerback is playing flat, then they're going to come up on the
out route and that's going to leave a hole to hit the go route down the sideline. If that cornerback
is playing cover three or cover four and they drop back with the vertical route down the sideline. If that quarterback is playing cover three or cover four, and they drop back
with the vertical route down the sideline, then you're going to be able
to quickly hit the out route.
Brian Callahan runs a, what I would call a modern West coast spread.
That's what I would, that's what he did with the bangles.
That's what the bangles are doing.
It's basically a West coast offense with the quick timing accurate passing you want to use the quick passing game as an extension of the run game
because there's more upside more efficiency but also there's a spread nature to it because of the
use of shotgun so brian callahan is basically taking a spread shotgun offense, applying West Coast principles
from the West Coast offense from, uh, you know, like Bill Walsh and the 49ers in the
eighties and nineties.
And then you're adding in Bill Callahan's diverse power run game.
It's a combination of those two things together to make what
Brian Callahan's offense is. So I think Cam Ward fits very, very well in all of
that because Cam Ward consistently hit these quick little games on the outside
like what I'm describing. He quickly hit those little out routes and hey I'm
gonna read the corner back and if the corner back does this or does that, that's where my read is.
He did that a ton.
Also, the Titans do things like that against linebackers where they put the
linebacker in conflict, where your inside receiver is going to do a quick curl
route and the linebacker in theory could bite up on that curl route.
And then you're going to run an in route behind that linebacker so that if the linebacker bites up inside you can hit the
Crossing route behind it cam war consistently while not having exactly those cam ward
Consistently on tape hit inside these traffic windows with these quick little breaking
Crosser routes over the middle where there's an underneath guy pulling a guy up and then a medium guy and then a deep guy and he's
there's an underneath guy pulling a guy up and then a medium guy and then a deep guy and he's constantly looking at is the deep, is the medium, is the underneath open and
making those decisions based on reading specific players and specific coverages.
And that is exactly what Brian Callahan is going to ask him to do is just read one guy
and then make the decision on who's open and get the ball out of your hands.
And he demonstrated the ability to do that on tape consistently in my opinion. Also screens, the Titans want to use screens whether it's a little dump off to the
running back, whether it's a quick screen out to the wide receiver, the Titans want to use these
things which are elements of spread offense. Those quick little screens and Cam Ward was awesome
on those quick little screens.
Just quick, get the ball out. And that's included in the RPO game, which we'll talk about in a second.
But also, Brian Callahan loves crossers. He loves crossing routes. He wants to cross over the middle of the field.
And that's what Miami did all year long. Miami's offense was a vertical offense. It was RPO game, it was screen game, or it was vertical shots downfield.
Tons of crossing routes. Tons of post corner routes where wide receivers are crossing.
They would run these crazy like, it's like a post, but without the vertical stem and
then break in.
It's just a straight cross, you know, a deep, deep cross.
I can't call it a crossing route because it's not really called.
It's like a post route, but you go directly to it and mixing that in at different levels.
So I think those are all things that Cam Ward did in college that Brian
Callahan wants to do and he did them well. The Titans need to add more RPO
though because along with those screens, those quick screens, the RPO game,
handoff or get it out. Cam Ward does it so well and operates it so well and has
done it for so long that it would be silly to not incorporate that into the offense.
You're going to have to do more shotgun.
Cam Ward hasn't done a ton under center.
I think he can, but he's going to be more confident in gun.
And honestly, Brian Callahan wants to be in shotgun.
That that's what he thinks is best is shotgun.
So that means less play action shots down the field, less like two man
only, not the two man concepts we talked about, but where there's literally
only two guys in routes and they're crossing after a deep play action fake.
Like we saw with Will Levitz all the time.
That's not what you don't want.
Cam Ward's back to the defense because he reads the defense so well.
That means you're going to need more wide receivers and less tight ends
You're going to need more speed to take the top off the defense
And have cam ward attacking that interim. I think intermediate over the middle of the field is where cam ward's at his best
So open that area up with more speed by getting guys who could take the top off of the zone and push that deep safety back.
Push that deep half safety back.
Open up that middle of the field.
So those are just things I think the Titans are going to need to do more of.
But that's my full scouting report on Cam Ward.
Again, check out the film breakdown that I'm going to be putting out on Tuesday
at Tic Tac Titans on YouTube.
I hope you guys enjoy, but that's going to do it for me today, folks.
As always, I am your host Tyler Rowland and this was Locked on tight.