Locked On Titans - Daily Podcast On The Tennessee Titans - Rueben Bain DRAFT CRASH Hurts Tennessee Titans Options & Misplaced Second Round Steal Optimism

Episode Date: April 13, 2026

The Tennessee Titans were reportedly already out on Rueben Bain at the top of the NFL Draft and most figured it was for football reasons, but after recent reports surfaced about a fatal car accident in Bain's past, it is fair to wonder if this information was known by the Titans and already impact his viability. Regardless, the timing of this coming to light is suspicious, if most in the NFL already were aware. It makes you wonder who might have wanted this out...NOW. With that in mind, the damage is likely already done, to whatever amount and Bain will likely go lower than expected just a few months ago, which can only hurt the Titans chances of a trade back. However, Bain won't fall far enough for the Titans to snag him in Round 2, so Titans fans shouldn't be overly optimistic in that regard.   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. Rugiet Get 15% off your treatment → https://rugiet.com/lockedonnhl Rugiet. Performance medicine for men. Rocket MoneyLet Rocket Money help you reach your financial goals faster. Join athttp://RocketMoney.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.

Bombshell reports about Rubin Bain being involved in a serious car accident are hurting his draft stock and most likely hurting the Tennessee Titans at the same time. I'll explain how 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 Rowling. Titans fans. Today's edition of the Locked on Titans podcast is brought to you by Fandall. Right now new customers can bet just $5 and get $250 in bonus bets if your first bet wins. Head to fandle.com to get started on today's bonus episode. We're going to talk about these new reports about Ruben Bain being involved in a fatal car crash, talk about how they're affecting his draft stock and then how they're affecting the Tennessee

Titans as well. Now, before we get into all of it, do want to thank you for making a lot of Locked on Titans, your first listen each and every day. Remember Monday through Friday, Tennessee Titans content all year round, always for free. 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, now is the time to be one. The draft is less than two weeks away. We're in the middle of Titans Trio mock draft week, and there's a winner from last night's mock draft faceoff. We'll go over that. end of the show. We're doing edge rusher paths tonight and one of those edge rushers is not going to be Rubin Bain. But make sure you stay locked in with the number one Tennessee Titans podcast in the world locked on Titans. With that being said though again, new reports about Ruben Bain

certainly are going to hurt his draft stop. There's reporting from Ali Connerly of the Guardian, Trey Wallace from Outkick that in 2024 Ruben Bain was involved in a serious car accident in which One of the passengers in the other car, the driver of the other car, someone involved in the other vehicle, went into a coma for a few months and ultimately died. It's a very tragic story, very sad situation, but Reuben Bain was cited for careless driving. In that incident, it was ultimately dismissed a few weeks before the death of the other person. No criminal wrongdoing was proven or no charges in that realm were filed. The parents of the young woman who died put out of a crime.

statement saying that, you know, they don't want attention from this, that they, you know, wished Ruben Bain good luck going forward in his career and his life. It's just a tragic incident at the end of the day. But there are some who are saying that maybe Ruben Bain didn't disclose this information to NFL teams. Maybe there were NFL teams that when they did learn about this were caught off guard and that could be considered a character red flag that you would not inform NFL teams about this serious situation in your past, especially considering, no, there was no criminal wrongdoing, the case was dismissed, all that different. There's no reason to kind of lie about this kind of thing.

So there are some teams that may have been caught off guard, but at the end of the day, NFL teams weren't caught off guard like we were all caught off guard. There were whispers about a potential issue, but nothing had been reported publicly, but make no mistake about it. NFL teams knew about this months ago, and that's been stated by multiple people within the industry over the last few hours since the story has come out. I personally didn't hear about this whatsoever until this weekend when I heard a whisper about it, ask some questions, got some answers

and had somebody tell me about what was going on. And that makes you wonder why this is coming out right now. If everybody in the NFL knew about this, all the NFL teams had become aware of it in the last few months, why is it coming out now? Well, is there someone who is hoping that this does affect Ruben's Bain's stock? Because at the end of the day, at least, if NFL teams knew about this, their boards probably don't change.

But if NFL owners are now hearing about this, NFL fan bases now hearing about this, it certainly is fair to say that this could impact Ruben Bain's stock from a public perception standpoint, which could force general managers and scouting staffs to then move him down the board or maybe pass on him in a scenario. So it's hard to argue that this doesn't hurt Rubin Bain in some way, even if NFL teams knew about this months ago with it just coming out now. I think it does make you wonder,

is someone trying to intentionally hurt Rubin Bain by having this come out right now? Either way, I think it also does hurt the Tennessee Titans because there's a couple of different paths that this can go. We heard from Daniel Jeremiah a couple of weeks ago or a week ago that the Titans were reportedly not a Rubin Bain team. You can not believe that if you want to. I do believe that and I understand the logic of why they wouldn't be. But it makes you wonder,

were the Titans out on Rubin Bain for football reasons? Or were they in on Rubin Bain and they knew about this months ago and that's what has them out on Rubin Bain? That hurts the Titans. Good football player that they would have taken. Now they don't feel comfortable taking him and they have to pass on them. And if it goes R. Val Rees, David Bailey, R. Val Rees,

and they really wanted an edge rusher. Well, now an edge rushing option is off the board because you don't feel you can take that player. That hurts the Titans. If they liked Ruben Bain. It hurts the Titans. Now, if they didn't like Ruben Bain, and it's all just football reasons,

the arm length and things like that, the fit, the scheme, and they're like, okay, well, this doesn't really change our minds because we already didn't like him, then it doesn't hurt the Titans. But there's another way that I think that this hurts the Titans that's outside of whether they like Bain or not. And it's a trait. If it goes David Bailey, R.V.L. Reese 2, 3.

If it goes Reese Bailey, whatever. And there's a team like the Chiefs or the Cowboys that's desperate for an edge rusher. And these guys are clearly the top three. I think there's a big jump down to the next tier of Keldrick Falk and T.J. Parker, Malachi, Lawrence, Zion Young. I think those guys are a significant step off from Cassius Howl in that group, from the top three guys. So if a team wanted to come up and get an edge rusher like Ruben Bain at 4, it's definitely less likely to happen now that a team would not only take Rubin Bain that high,

but also trade, draft capital to come up and get him. That's probably not going to happen. Now, you could make the argument and it would be fair to say that we've heard that Ruben Bain's stock had been dropping in recent weeks unrelated to these new reports. The arm length is a historic factor. That is a real thing that a lot of teams are going to be scared off from. It's a historic unicorn outlier is what you're expecting from Ruben Bain.

So from that perspective, his stock probably already dropping a little bit. just with the teams that would be willing to take him. But now you add in this, and here's the thing, again, I think teams probably already knew about this months ago, and a lot of people have said that so far. So when we hear in recent weeks, people aren't as high on Rubin Bain as you think. It's probably because teams already had the concerns about the arm length

and already knew about this. Now, I will continue. I will continue to say, I believe in Ruben Bain. I think Ruben Bain is going to be a good player and it's going to be one of those stupid things where he drops to the Chiefs or the Ravens at 14 and he turns into an awesome player

and it's like, oh, how do we all overlook that? Ruben Bain is awesome. I would take him at number 4. So I just want to put that out there. But with that being said, again, this hurts the Titans in a couple of different ways. There is a path where it doesn't hurt. them. But regardless, I'm still a believer in Ruben Bain, but what I can't do is,

I can't have him as one of the edges in tonight's Titans Trio Mock Draft Showdown. So we'll talk about why that is, go over again, why I think the Titans are out on Rubin Bain outside of this. And we have a winner from last night's Mock Draft Trio Showdown with Jeremiah Love as the number one pick. I'll tell you who won that battle as we continue. mock trio week here on the Lock On Titans podcast. Do want to let you know that today's episode is brought to you by TurboTax. It's tax time, but for a lot of us, the old way of doing taxes is a lot. Trying to book an appointment that's not the most convenient,

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But make sure you head to fandle.com to get started. Once again, that's fandle.com, Fandle. Play your game. And let's cap off today's bonus edition of the Locked-on Titans podcast. Again, we talked about the Ruben Bain story, how it impacts his draft stock, but also how it impacts the Tennessee Titans. And again, it's like throwing the football.

Two out of the three outcomes can be bad. That's what I was always taught in a run-heavy offense growing up. In completion, interception, completion. You know, and you could even add sack in there. Three out of four, throwing the football, dangerous. Pound the Rock. Is that a Jeremiah Love reference? With that being said, again, on last night's episode,

we did three different mock drafts, three round mock drafts with Jeremiah Love is the first player in each of all of them. On tonight's episode, we are going to do the edge rusher, lead mock drafts. Whether it's David Bailey or Val Rees, doesn't matter, they get an edge rusher at four.

what's the best thing to do after that? What's the best mock draft out of the three different ones I'm going to do it. Remember last night we had mock draft one which was Jeremiah Love Malachi Lawrence and Jeremy Bernard

that was my personal favorite that was mock draft one. Then we had Jeremiah Love Chris Bell and Keeran Crawford that was number two and then we had Jeremiah love Keelon Rutledge the guard out of Georgia Tech

and then Ted Hurst and wide receiver. That was number three. That was my second favorite one. Well, you have spoken in the comments on social media a resounding victory for mock draft number three.

Love triangle number three. So Jeremiah Love kicked things off, explosive offensive playmaker. Keelon Rutledge, the big-bodied physical, nasty, out of Georgia Tech who's getting some first round buzz right now amongst NFL insiders.

Keelan Rutledge at number 35. And then getting Ted Hurst at 66, I think is kind of the cherry on top for most people. Hurst has real wide receiver 1 potential. He has elite talent potential. If he can raise his level of competition, if he can be more honed in on the details, he can be a game changer for the Titans. He fits perfectly with what they need.

He's got a lot more pop to him than Jeremy Bernard. So I get why everybody went that route. It's all offense as well, which you want to support Cam Ward. Go all offense. We'll get an edge rusher at 101. You know, that's what a lot of people are saying. We'll get edge rusher in the fifth round. We'll get linebacker.

We'll double down and get center again. You know what I mean? There's a lot of options, cornerback, that the Titans could go with after those first three picks. But it was pretty clear. You guys were pretty unanimous. I would say that just my approximate value of seeing the comment section, I would say it was about 66.

mock draft 3, Love Triangle 3, and then probably, you know, 25% mock draft 1, which was my favorite, and then whatever, do the math. I'm not an athlete, not an athlete, but I don't know what the percentage is for number 2, but it wasn't very much. There was like five people who said they liked number 2 the best. It was mostly people who just really love Chris Bell and believe in him, which I don't blame you. Chris Bell could be an absolute stud if it comes back healthy from the ACL. But again, what we're going to do is

that mock draft, Love Triangle number 3, is now going to advance to a final competition later in the week. So we'll do edge rusher lead drafts tonight. Tomorrow we'll do Cornell Tate led mock drafts

and then Thursday we'll do Sunny Stiles led mock drafts. The number one mock draft voted on by all of you guys that advances through each of the different rounds will all face off on the last show of the week. And then next week is draft week.

We'll probably get a lot of rumors in intel and I'll be covering those on the bonus shows. There's a reason this is the number one Tennessee Titans podcast and world. Thank you for tuning in each and every day. Speaking of every day, you guys need to check out the Locked on Titans every day or club. Get ad free version of the podcast in your podcast app.

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