Locked On Titans - Daily Podcast On The Tennessee Titans - David Bailey OFFICIAL VISIT with Tennessee Titans HAPPENING TODAY & Arvell Reese ELITE Boom or Bust

Episode Date: April 8, 2026

The Tennessee Titans could be selecting an edge at the top of the first round and it comes down to three names: David Bailey, Arvell Reese and Rueben Bain. Bailey will be having his official visit wit...h the Titans on Wednesday and most likely is the top player on the Titans' board. However, there are some concerns with Bailey the Titans would need to iron, including whether Bailey will be available to draft at all. Arvell Reese is the next consensus rusher, but he also comes with his concerns. Chief among them, what position he would be maximized at. Edge or Linebacker, or nothing at all? There is the chance though you get a hybrid game-wrecker and who better to make it happen than Robert Saleh. Finally, Rueben Bain, who may be the best of the three, reportedly isn't high on the Titans' wish list, but we can only hope that isn't true because Bain is a force who can still help the Titans even if the fit isn't as clean.   LOCKED ON TITANS EVERYDAY CLUB: https://lockedontitans.supercast.com/   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   Everydayer ClubIf you never miss an episode, it’s time to make it official. Join the Locked On Everydayer Club and get ad-free audio, access to our members-only Discord, and more — all built for our most loyal fans. Click here to learn more and join your team’s community: https://lockedonpodcasts.com/everydayerclub Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! TurboTax This year you’re getting a major upgrade — Intuit TurboTax now has in-person locations nationwide. Visit http://TurboTax.com/local to book your appointment today. FanDuel Today's episode is brought to you by FanDuel. Right now new customers can bet just five dollars and get two-hundred and fifty dollars in bonus bets if your first bet wins.Visit https://FANDUEL.COM to get started — Play Your Game. Indeed Listeners of this show get a $75 Sponsored Job Credit to help give your job the premium placement it deserves at http://Indeed.com/podcast. Betterhelp This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Sign up and get 10% off at http://BetterHelp.com/LOCKEDON. 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) Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 I think that David Bailey is the number one player on the Tennessee Titans draft board, and he's visiting with the team right now. I'll rank the top three edge rushers on today's edition of Locked on Titans. You are Locked on Titans, your daily Tennessee Titans podcast, part of the Locked On Podcast network, your team every day. Welcome to the Locked on Titans podcast. I am your host, Tyler Rowland Titans fans, On today's show, we are going to have a full conversation about the top three edge rushers in the NFL draft.
Starting point is 00:00:41 We'll start with David Bailey, who I think is the top player on the Tennessee Titans board, and he happens to be visiting with the Tennessee Titans right now as I record on Wednesday also. We'll talk about the boom or bust nature of R. Val Reese, who might have a better chance to make it to the Titans at 4 than even Bailey does. And we'll talk about Rubin Bain, who, again, the Tennessee Titans may be out on Rubel Rees, But I sure as heck am not. Before we dive into all of it, do want to thank you for making a locked on Titans. Your first listen each and every day. Remember, Monday through Friday, Tennessee Titans content all year round, always for free.
Starting point is 00:01:19 Make sure that you get subscribed, stay subscribed. It's your team every day. Speaking of Every Day, shout out to my Everydayers out there. Tune in Monday through Friday. Couldn't do it without you guys. If you aren't an everydayer, you need to be one. The draft is just a couple of weeks away. We're in the middle of the Locked-on Titans NFL draft preview series,
Starting point is 00:01:36 getting you as ready as you could possibly be for the NFL draft. Make sure, again, that you stay locked in with the number one Tennessee Titans podcast in the world. Locked on Titans. With that being said, though, again, I have said this since January. I think that David Bailey would be the pick for the Tennessee Titans. I think the Tennessee Titans, like David Bailey the most,
Starting point is 00:01:59 out of the edge rushers. I think he's the number one player on their board. if the Tennessee Titans had the second pick in the draft, David Bailey would be the pick with no question. That's how I feel. Now, my personal rankings, I have David Bailey as the third best player out of the three guys that we're going to talk about today,
Starting point is 00:02:17 David Bailey, Arvel Reese, and Rubin Bain. But I am not the one making the pick. It's the Titans. And I can also see the reality of why the Tennessee Titans would have David Bailey at the top of their board. And yes, that means I think that if the Titans, Titans had the choice between Jeremiah Love or David, or David Bailey, they would take David Bailey with no question. He fits so perfectly with what the Titans need.
Starting point is 00:02:43 I've talked about the edge rusher spot. You have power rushers in Femio LaDajio and Jermaine Johnson. Germain Johnson on a one-year deal. Hopefully Femioleadayo is the long-term power rusher in Robert Salas defensive line. Let's hope. Then you have John Franklin Myers, who can also be a bit of a power rusher. Jeffrey Simmons could be a power edge if they needed him to be. Now, John Franklin Myers and Jeffrey Simmons are better rushing from the interior,
Starting point is 00:03:10 so they shouldn't be on the edge full time. But nonetheless, those guys could double as power edges if they needed to. What the Titans don't really have is a speed rusher. They don't have the guy who wins in two seconds, who forces the quarterback into everybody else. They don't have that guy. And Robert Salah's defense, has always had that speed guy.
Starting point is 00:03:34 He's had a Bryce Huff, he's had a Will MacDonald to fill that role. He's always looked to have when Nick Bosa could fill that role because he has a speed and a power, edge rusher. But even then, he always liked to have that guy. The Titans don't have that, and David Bailey is that. 6 foot 3, 251 pounds,
Starting point is 00:03:54 33 and 3 4th inch arms, 4.5 40-yard dashes, he's 22.7 years old. elite speed. Just his get-off, I'm not saying he's an elite prospect. He's got his downfalls and we'll get there. But
Starting point is 00:04:09 explosive off the line of scrimmage, like a sprinter out of his stance. He's on offensive tackles so fast. It's unbelievable how quick he can get there. And he combines that explosiveness, that speed, that burst off the line of scrimmage with great length.
Starting point is 00:04:28 Good long arms can get to the quarter, can reach in and get to him. Doesn't have to be as close to the quarterback to be able to get mits on him and get him down to the ground. He's really good at breaking up passes too, like he'll mirror the quarterback if he can't get there and use his long arms to knock down passes.
Starting point is 00:04:44 I was pleasantly surprised with how often in my notes I would put batted pass. Really good at that. He uses that length well. Speed to power move where he gets off the line of scrimmage real fast, uses his long arms, gets him into the chest of the offensive lineman, knocks them off balance, then he can go to a swipe to a hook.
Starting point is 00:05:05 He has a little bit of a ghost hand move where he shoots his hands and pretends like he's coming to your chest, gets the offensive lineman to shoot their hands, and then swipes him away and gets past him. Has some pretty refined moves. And of course, while we're talking about moves, his inside spin move. Because he's so fast, off the line of scrimmage,
Starting point is 00:05:25 shooting off the line of scrimmage, what do offensive tackles do? They try to shoot out as fast as they can. But they aren't the athlete that David Bailey is. And they get going outside and then he, boom, spins inside to counter his speed. Fantastic. And with the long arms, he can boom, you know, slam his arm backwards in the middle of his spin
Starting point is 00:05:46 to wall off the offensive lineman even more so that he can't recover. It is a lethal, lethal inside spin move. So with the speed to power, the long arm, The inside spin, the hook. He has a chop down inside rip move, a chop rip that I really like. And listen, everybody has different terminology for different pass rush moves. I see them all called different things. But that's how I would explain it simply so you know what they mean.
Starting point is 00:06:18 Chop down on the arm and then rip up through the armpit and I'm past you. And he just wins. 14 and a half sacks last year in college football led the NCAA. that's production, that is talent. You know, he's just good. He's a really good player. And I think realistically, David Bailey is going to go number two to the New York Jets.
Starting point is 00:06:44 I think that's what's going to happen. That's what's in the air right now. I think that David Bailey, and I think the Titans are going to be sad to see it. I think the Titans would take David Bailey. And if the Titans, I don't think that they will, but if the Titans traded up two spots to the Jets, It would be to take David Bailey, in my opinion.
Starting point is 00:07:03 Not Jeremiah Love, not Arvel Rees. It would be David Bailey. That's their number one player in this draft class. I truly believe that. And I've believed it since January. Now, here's the problem. He's not good in run defense. And listen, he can chase guys down with his speed from behind.
Starting point is 00:07:19 Like, if he's a backside guy and they run away from him, he can chase down a guy. Like, he gives effort. He's not like lazy out there, not trying to play against the run. but if they run at him, it's over. He cannot anchor down and hold a gap against a double team. He just gets moved like a child. He has no power in his pass rush really.
Starting point is 00:07:42 Like speed to power is a speed move in my opinion. You're going at such a fast pace. And if you have long arms, you can get your hands, you just as fast as you can and then hands into the chest and you're going to be. But a true bull rush where you're just straight into the chest and you just walk a guy back into the quarterback. The hump move like Ruben Bain has,
Starting point is 00:08:03 he doesn't have the power that Bain and R.Val Reese do, even though he's heavier than R.Vel Rees. Rvel Reese will just hit you in the chest and knock you over. He doesn't quite have that power. He doesn't shed blocks as well as a guy should with his kind of length and his speed. I saw Bob McGinn, I think it was. in the Go Long newsletter
Starting point is 00:08:28 say that there are people who want to see more, it was probably in The Beast with Dame Bruegler, which came out on Wednesday, that he needs to play with more consistency because his talent should make him a better run player than he is. He doesn't ID runs very quickly. His IQ on when to shoot,
Starting point is 00:08:49 when to stay home, following the ball carrier, things like that can be questionable. And then we get to the final thing, character. he like, I don't want to say assaulted, but he got physical with like a camera man after a college football game. It was like Arizona State. They had to be separated.
Starting point is 00:09:08 There's a video of the incident, you know, grainy video. Like, it's not a good sign. I think there was an incident. He stepped on a guy. Some people say stomped on a guy. Hey, I'm not going to be the judge jury and executioner here. But I'm just saying there are character concerns, anger concerns, with David Bailey.
Starting point is 00:09:26 There's, again, I think it was in the beast. Sorry if it's a miscredit. But there are people who say that, you know, he's not very consistent with his effort at practice. He could be more consistent with his all-field habits. So, what does that mean? And there's Robert Sala, I think it was at the owner's meeting, said some quote about like,
Starting point is 00:09:47 he's been burned in the past by character guys who don't actually love the game and won't work hard even though they're more talented. He's made those mistakes. He said, I wasn't going to name the point. player, you know, but could he be thinking of a guy like David Bailey when he says, yeah, a guy with great talent, but just don't match what we want from a culture standpoint. Is that a guy like David Bailey?
Starting point is 00:10:09 You're fair to wonder. But, you know, we all could have our opinions. We all could have our rankings. I have David Bailey as the third guy amongst this group of top three edge rushers. I think the Titans have him number one. Let me know what you think the Tennessee Titans ranking is down below in the comments or hit me up on social media. Now it's time to talk about R.
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Starting point is 00:11:35 Let's continue today's edition of the Locked-on Titans podcast. Again, we are having a final discussion on the top three edge rushers later on tonight when I drop my full length 30-minute extra episode. Well, this is going to be 30 minutes too. So you're getting double the pleasure today. You get two 30-minute full episodes. Top three edge rushers today. Tonight we'll talk about the rest of the edge rush class.
Starting point is 00:12:13 21 other names that I want to talk about with you guys. It could be options on day two or day three. So make sure that you don't miss out on that. But again, we talked about David Bailey, had his visit with the Tennessee Titans on Wednesday. I think he's the top player on their board, but I don't know that he's going to be available. And similarly,
Starting point is 00:12:30 I think that Arvel Reese would be their next pick. If they couldn't get David Bailey, I think that they would take Arvel Reese. But I don't think that Arvel Reese is going to be available for the Titans either. I think he's going to go either two or three. and Bailey will go either two or three. Wherever the other one goes, the other one will go to the other spot.
Starting point is 00:12:48 Like whether that's a trade-up, someone to the Cardinals, which I don't think the Titans are going to be a part of, or whether or not, it might just be the Cardinals. I think the Cardinals would take a David Bailey or an Arvel Reese at this point. You just can't take one of the offensive linemen there.
Starting point is 00:13:01 I don't think the value is there. So with that in mind, I think these would be the top two guys for the Titans. I don't know that they're going to be there, but for me, Rvel Reese is my number one player in the drive. I think the violence that he plays with, the hybrid nature of his game, and what really sets it off for me is Robert Sala.
Starting point is 00:13:23 So Rvel Reese, 6 foot 4, 241 pounds. 32 and a half inch arms, not as much length as you would like, but it's not terrible. 4-4-6 in the 40, great straight line speed and he's only 20.7 years old. He's not even 21 years old yet. He doesn't have a ton of experience. only played about 900 snaps in the two years that he was actually playing college football. So you could look at that as a good thing or a bad thing. His best football is probably ahead of him.
Starting point is 00:13:55 He's not even 21. By the time he's 24, 25 years old, he might be absolutely ridiculous. You know what I mean? He's going to add mass to his frame at only 241 pounds. Get that to 250, 255. He's going to get stronger. He might even grow an inch, inch and a half. his arms might get a little bit longer,
Starting point is 00:14:14 all of that is still possible at only 20.7 years old. He's going to be able to develop mentally as well, but just right now, right now, the player that R. Val Reese is. Violence. The way that he comes downhill and hammers people, the way that he puts hands on offensive tackles and tight ends,
Starting point is 00:14:39 he is violent in every sense of the word. explosive, straightforward as well. The way he blitzes downhill, when there's a play, I forget who it was against. I watched like six or seven games in my tape study of R. Val Rees. There's a specific game where he gets past his man, but the quarterback has rolled out away from him.
Starting point is 00:15:05 Watching him hit the jets to get to that quarterback, it's absurd. It is absurd. The level of speed that he is running at to go get the quarterback. Just so much quicker and faster than everybody else. Faster is the word that I would use.
Starting point is 00:15:27 Just the burst to get there. And again, long enough arms, strong enough punch. He just sheds tacklers. Whether it be a linebacker, whether it be an edge, he just gets his hands on you, and he can discard you whenever he pleases. Also, with the arms, the hands, he is such a sound tackler. Just not a guy who's going to miss a lot of tackles when he gets to you.
Starting point is 00:15:51 He's going to be going out of speed with a ferocity with the arms and the strong hands you're going on the ground. And again, a lot of that stuff can be applied as a linebacker or as an edge rusher. I was pleasantly surprised with how often he played on the edge. and how good he was at it. This is not like Femiola-Dasia. He's played enough edge
Starting point is 00:16:19 where you're not literally taking a linebacker and putting him an edge in the middle of a season, changing his position, and he's got like, Arvel Reese was trained as an edge as well and used as an edge very frequently. He is not some stranger to be in an edge rusher who, hey, we just needed to get our best players on the field
Starting point is 00:16:39 so we put him down at Edge, like Femmy did halfway through his last year in college. It's not quite the same. He's had more teaching and more experience at Edge than Femmy did. And let's be honest. A lot of people see the edge linebacker hybrid nature of R. Velries and see it as a bad thing. What position is he going to play? What are you going to do with him?
Starting point is 00:17:03 I think it's a great thing. Imagine if he could solve the Mike Linebacker spot on early downs next to Cedric Gray and also be the Titans' primary speed rusher off the wide 9 edge. Imagine if he could mug the A-gap and line up over the center and the guard
Starting point is 00:17:22 and be used with Jeffrey Simmons on twists and stunts. Imagine if he could line up an edge and drop into coverage to catch a quarterback and get an interception. I think his hybrid nature, and I'll be honest with you, I've always loved hybrid linebackers. Back to, you know, Anthony,
Starting point is 00:17:41 I loved Anthony Barr. I loved Anthony Barr. I loved Harold Landry. Harold Landry wasn't as much of a hybrid, but Harold Landry could drop in coverage, could play stackbacker in a four or three alignment, could, having a guy who does that tilts the way that an offense can't trap you, whether it be your front, whether it be your style, whether it be the angles you want to take when you come after guys. You can do all these different things with a player like that because they can do all those different things. And again, 20.7 years old,
Starting point is 00:18:14 whatever you want him to be, you can mold him to be. Now, I'll be honest. Great straight line burst, explosiveness, but I wouldn't say that he has elite change a direction. Wiggle. And that might be a difference maker between a guy like Michael Parsons
Starting point is 00:18:33 and a guy like R. Val R. Val Rees. I think Michael Parsons has better wiggle than R. Val R. Valrease to win on those Euro step-type pass rush moves. He is an unpolished rusher. A lot of his pass rush production came as a quarterback spy, not as a pure rusher. I've seen some two-handed swipes.
Starting point is 00:18:53 I've seen a dip. He's done some speed to power. He's used some moves, but he is not refined in that way. And he's kind of just like shooting the way that he was taught to shoot and you can tell he doesn't have experience actually hitting on things. and I'll be honest. People say, you know, there's a lot of big voices out there
Starting point is 00:19:14 in the draft community who want to say that Rvel Reese is better as a linebacker like he should just be a stand-up linebacker not convert to edge. I don't know about that. I don't think he's very good dropping into zone coverage. He doesn't look super comfortable to me like Sonny Stiles, who is a former safety,
Starting point is 00:19:32 his teammate at Ohio State. He is way more comfortable dropping back into zone coverage and reading routes and knowing where to be and when R. Val R. Val Rees drops into coverage, he looks like an edge dropping into coverage, not a linebacker dropping into coverage, in my opinion. Which even more cements that I think he's an edge rusher
Starting point is 00:19:52 with linebacker versatility. I would train him as a wide-nine edge rusher, first and foremost before anything else, and then allow him to have positional versatility as we move forward. So get him to be the speed edge that the Titans need train him there first, and then as he gets that down, we'll get more versatile as we grow into his career as it becomes 22, 23, 24 years old.
Starting point is 00:20:18 And when we talk about age, like Akeem Messador, who we'll talk about later tonight, I'm totally out on Akeem Messador. He's 25 years old. By the time he gets done with his rookie contract, he's going to be 29. You really want to re-sign a 30-year-old edge rusher? But Arval Reese, by the time he gets done with his
Starting point is 00:20:39 first contract. He's going to be 25. The age that Akeem Messador is right now. You might have R. Val Rees for two, three contracts. Well, you'll probably only have Akeem Messador for one. So that is just a good side conversation about why age matters in the NFL draft. It's about return on investment and how long you can count on that. But with that being said, again, Arval Reese, my number one player, don't think he gets to the Titans. But at Bailey or Reese are there at number four, I believe the Titans will pick one of them or they'll trade back.
Starting point is 00:21:16 It wouldn't be Jeremiah Love or Carnell Tate. Now, let's talk about the third guy, my guy, who apparently the Titans are out on, Ruben Bain. Do want to let you know that today's episode is brought to you by TurboTax. It's tax time,
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Starting point is 00:22:20 Head to turbotax.com slash local. Again, that's turbotax.com slash local to find a store near you and book your appointment. Let's cap off today's edition of the Locked on Titans podcast. Again, breaking down the top three edge rushers in the NFL draft. David Bailey, R. Val Rees, Ruben Bain, again, David Bailey had his visit with the Tennessee Titans today, Wednesday. I think he's the top guy on their board.
Starting point is 00:23:04 I think Arvel Reese would be number two. And again, as we talked about earlier this week, it appears that the Titans might just be out on Rubin Bain, which makes me sad to hear. Before we discuss that, though, do want to thank you again for making Locked on Titans your first listen each and every day. Do want to remind you to join the Locked on Titans every day or club.
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Starting point is 00:24:00 Every Day or Club. Hit the link down below in the description to get joined up for that. But again, talked about the Daniel Jeremiah report earlier this week that the Tennessee Titans were out on Ruben Bain.
Starting point is 00:24:13 They're not a Rubin Bain team. You could choose whether to believe that or not, it's up to you. I'll be honest with you. I believe it. I do believe it. I think that whether it's a scheme fit, whether it's the arm length, Robert Sala historically what he looks for at edge rusher.
Starting point is 00:24:31 I do see how you could reasonably say that the Titans are probably not as high on Ruben Bain as they are the other edge rushers. I can absolutely see that. In my opinion, it's 100% believable. I do believe it. But it makes me sad. I love Ruben Bain. I think Ruben Bain is going to be an awesome player. I think that Ruben Bain, I don't care about the arm length. He is a football player.
Starting point is 00:24:55 just a physical force who dominates people. Like, I can't, I can't quit on Ruben Bain. I really like Ruben Bain. Again, my second edge rusher, I have R.Vel Reese is my number one player. Ruben Bain is my number two option and then David Bailey after them. But, like, hearing that the Titans are probably out on Ruben Bain just makes me sad. It just makes me sad. But again, it makes me so sad because it's so believable.
Starting point is 00:25:24 Now, look, again, I'm. I'll make the argument. 6 foot 2, 263, 30.88 inch arms. And that's really the problem. We talked about it earlier this week. That's the problem. There hasn't been a guy drafted in the first round with arms as short as Ruben Baines since 1999. There hasn't been an edge rusher in the last 20 years in the NFL to have 12 sacks in a season with arms as short. as Ruben Baines.
Starting point is 00:26:00 And whether I agree or you agree with that mattering, it matters to a lot of NFL teams. It just matters. They're scared of historical trends. You can't take outliers. You can't look for unicorns. You can't take risks. That's how you lose your job.
Starting point is 00:26:19 So unfortunately, you know, the Titans, if you look at Mike Borgonzi coming from Kansas City, they're a team that really does add here to a lot of these statistical metrics, these landmarks. We're not going to draft an edge rusher with arms this short. Whether it's Ruben Bain, whether it's a guy in the fourth round, a guy in the sixth round, we just don't do that.
Starting point is 00:26:44 We're not going to draft an offensive lineman with a 10-yard split in their 40-yard dash that's slower than this. We're not going to do it. We're not going to take a cornerback with a three-comb, of less that we're not going to take an offensive tackle with a broad jump of less than, you know,
Starting point is 00:27:02 whether you like it or not, there are teams all over the NFL, pretty much all of them, that have certain landmarks and thresholds, they're simply not going to draft guys if they don't meet them. Steadfast, hard rules that they will not make exceptions to.
Starting point is 00:27:17 And I think the Titans are probably an arm-length team. They're probably an arm-length guy. Germaine Johnson has really long arms, Femiola-Dazio has. long arms. Jeffrey Simmons has long arms. John Franklin Myers has long arms. Jacob Martin has decently long arms even though he's a speed rusher and it's not as important but nonetheless again I think that's a real thing for the Titans. If we are to believe that Bain is not their guy but again
Starting point is 00:27:43 just because he doesn't have the length, the pure speed, the elite bend, he has such great power, such strong hands, plays with such violence, dominated at the biggest level of college football. He had five sacks and seven and a half tackles for loss in his four games in the college football playoff. He was dominant, elite. And he may not have elite bend, like Vaughn Miller bend.
Starting point is 00:28:13 But for a guy who's 263, 270 pounds, he can dip underneath an offensive tackle. He has good pass rush moves with his chop and his swipe, the hump move that he has, like the Reggie White old move. He'll give you a little bit of power. He'll drop his shoulder and dip around you. Like, got a little bit of a ghost move where he shoots his hands early.
Starting point is 00:28:36 He does so many different things well. Such good technique. His frame is dense and thick and solid. And he's got elite football character. He literally, everybody, you know, has made jokes about his haircut and everything like that. He has said, I don't care about any of that. I just want to play football. I just want to play football.
Starting point is 00:28:56 That is a leader. And Cam Ward has been saying, we're coming to get you. Cam Ward wants him. Jeffrey Simmons said that he liked Ruben Bain on a podcast. I think it'd be great for the culture. So the fact that a physical, violent guy is not an option because, you know, he may need to play a little bit inside and you don't need a power rusher as bad.
Starting point is 00:29:23 I get it, but still makes me sad. Let me know how you would rank these three players. How do you think the Titans rank these three players? That's going to do it for me today though, folks. As always, I am your host, Tyler Ruland, and this was Locked on Titans.

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