Locked On Titans - Daily Podcast On The Tennessee Titans - Tennessee Titans ROSTER NEARLY FULL After Hendon Hooker, KJ Osborn & Michael Carter Signings

Episode Date: April 2, 2026

The Tennessee Titans made four signings on Wednesday all on the offensive side of the ball, Hendon Hooker, Michael Carter, KJ Osborn and Lance McCutcheon, and that brings their roster total to 78 players, give or take. Add in the expected nine draftees they will add in a few weeks and that gets you very close to the limit of 90 players. That would be fine, but typically teams will load up on 10 or more undrafted free agents each year. That means either the Titans plan on a mass exodus soon or they don't intend to be very active in the undrafted free agent pool, which would be a surprise.   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! Robinhood You’re no longer just a spectator. Play by play. You decide. Trade Every Play with Robinhood. Now available across the U.S. Download the Robinhood app now to begin. Futures and cleared swaps trading involves significant risk and is not appropriate for everyone. Event contracts are offered by Robinhood Derivatives, LLC., a registered futures commission merchant and swap firm. FanDuel Today's episode is brought to you by FanDuel. During the tournament FanDuel is offering $300 back in Bonus Bets every day for ten days. Visit https://FANDUEL.COM to get started — Play Your Game. 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.

The Tennessee Titans brought in some new players on Wednesday, and now the roster is too full. They have to make more room before they get to the NFL draft. I'll explain why 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're gonna talk about the four signings the Titans made on Wednesday.

What each of those players is going to do and what their role is going to be. We'll talk about why the Titans have too many players on the roster right now and this is exactly what competition on the roster looks like. Before we get into all of it, I do want to thank you for making 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 it in Monday through Friday. Couldn't do it without you guys. If you aren't an everydayer, you need to be one. We're smack dab in the middle of the 2026 Locked on Titans NFL draft preview.

Nobody is going to get you more prepared, more ready to go for the NFL draft than me here on the number one Tennessee Titans podcast in the world Locked on Titans. So make sure, again, that you stay locked in with Locked on Titans. But with that being said, the Titans did make some more veteran-free agent moves on Wednesday. They brought in four different players.

And of course, they add two more players immediately after I talked to you guys yesterday afternoon. But they bring in Hendon Hooker at quarterback, Michael Carter at running back, and two wide receivers, Lance McCutcheon, and K.J. Osborne. KJ. Osborne being the most productive of those players. But all four of these players are simply camp competition. And we'll talk about the fact that this is what competition looks like. like, but each of their individual roles is nothing more than a camp body at this point. You look at Hendon Hooker.

He's played three games in his career, thrown nine passes. Hendon Hooker is just a quarterback three. He's a practice squad guy. Now, does this mean that Will Levis is more likely to get traded like we talked about yesterday? I don't really think it affects that he was going to get traded before. But it kind of just confirms it. It puts a period at the end of the sentence. Like, there is our practice squad third quarterback for the season.

and most likely. Maybe they bring in somebody else to compete with Hendon Hooker, but that's the role that he's fighting for. Michael Carter, I saw some people, you know, uh-oh, Jeremiah Love, they're not taking Jeremiah Love. I saw some love stands, some Love Nuts getting down. I don't think that Michael Carter means that the Tennessee Titans are not going to take Jeremiah Love in the first round.

It doesn't really have an effect on it whatsoever, in my opinion. Michael Carter is a guy who can compete with Julius Chestnut, compete with Calell Mullings. You know what I mean? He's that type of player. 5 foot 8, 200 pounds. Played for Robert Sala before with the New York Jets. Has been with Arizona ever since. He's just a productive third running back to have in the rotation.

He'll play special teams. He's a good person, good guy in the locker room, knows the culture. What's expected of him will do the right things. Michael Carter, again, is competing with Julius Chestnut and Calell Mullings for the RB3 spot or the RB4 spot right now. He's not going to prevent the Titans from taking Jeremiah Love. if they take Jeremiah Love, they're just going to cut Tony Pollard.

So that is how the math works out on that one. And then they add two wide receivers. KJ. Osborne. KJ. Osborne is interesting. All right. He had some good seasons with the Minnesota Vikings. He had a three-year stretch where he had most of his career production. He had 650, 65, 650, 540 yards, back-to-back seasons.

He scored 15 total touchdowns. He caught 150 passes. Like the majority of his career production came in that three-year window. And since then, he's dropped off a cliff. He's been with New England for a little bit, was with Washington for a little bit, didn't even play in the NFL last year, like get in an actual game. He was practice squad surfing and everything. So maybe KJ Osworn is just out, you know,

most career NFL careers last about three and a half years. Right? So he's already beat that, but he's just another guy. And I think that he's somebody that's competing for the backup Wondale Robinson role. Like, Wondale Robinson is the starter for the Tennessee Titans. He's the starting slot. Well, who's going to back him up and be his direct backup? Yeah, Ridley could play a little in the slot. D.K. could play a little in the slot.

But they're not going to be the direct slot backup. I think K.J. Osborne is a guy fighting for that role. And he's going to compete with a guy like Xavier Restrepo. So this is Restrepo competition. They brought in Lance McCutcheon, and I don't really like the move. He was retired. Like he had told everybody that he was retired. And they came back, he hasn't played in an NFL game since 2022.

This has got to be an agent favor or something like, you know, hey, my guy wants to have a try out here. Can you let him come to camp? Sure, why not? You know what I mean? That's what that is. So I wouldn't take anything from the Lance McCutcheon move. He isn't going to be around.

He isn't going to make it. But the bigger point here is with all four of those signings, the Tennessee Titans are now up to about, 78, 79 players, 77, 78, 79. And you can only have 90. Now, if you have an international pathway player like the Titans had with Thomas O'Don Coyer for years and years and years, then you can have a 91st player or a 17th player on practice squad, but that's a conversation for another day. It's a footnote. But the Titans only have 13 spots left and they have nine rookies. Now, I don't know if you know this, but that would only leave

Uh-oh. The math is only four spots for undrafted free agents. Carry the two. There we go. That's not a lot of room. The Titans usually bring in NFL teams usually bring in on their 90-man roster. They'll have 10, 10 plus undrafted free agents. Usually you would have about, you know, 70 to 75 players on your roster. then you add your undrafted free agents.

So if the Titans actually have nine draft picks, you add that to the 78 that they're already at, that's 87, you know, three spots. No, 70, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Math, not my strong suit.

As you can tell, I'm fighting demons behind the scenes up there in the noggin. But the point is, three or four spots, no matter what they happen to have right now, is not enough for undrafted free agency. That doesn't make any sense at all. And I refuse to believe that that's what the Titans' plan is. I think we're going to see the Titans cut a wave of different people very, very soon.

Like, they're going to have to make some room in one way or another. You know, they absolutely have to. And there's a lot of guys on the roster that I just don't, you know, a Hal Presley, at wide receiver, Garrett Dellinger on the O-line, Clay Webb, Drew Moss, Trey Hill, Ryan Hayes, all, you know, camp body offensive linemen.

They're going to keep them around. Joel Wilson at tight end. You know, Blake Watson at running back. There are plenty of people that they could shave off this roster. I mean, they have a ton of edges right now, like Nate Lynn, Truman Jones, David Ed Bucca, I think, Allie Gay. There's a lot of room that they have to make.

can make right here to clear out more space on the roster. But I think it's got to happen before the NFL draft because as soon as the draft ends, the undrafted free agency gets wild. And you've got to make sure that you have roster spots that you can give to these guys because it's literally the Wild Wild West with undrafted free agency, bonuses,

guaranteed amounts, negotiations, playing time, opportunities in camp and pre-seating. Like, there's so much that you've got to negotiate with. If you don't even have a roster spot available for a guy that you're trying to sell to be an undrafted free agent. That could make things a little bit more complicated, and he could just go at easier path of resistance

and go with somebody else that he doesn't have to wait on, and it couldn't pull his deal and can't make the agreement right now because they have roster moves to make. So I think that is something that we've got to watch here in the next two weeks, three weeks before the NFL draft kicks off is do the Titans clear out a chunk of their roster to make room because right now they simply don't have the typical standard room

that you would have going into the NFL draft. So with that being said, though, again, this is what competition looks like, folks. Do you want to let you know that today's episode is brought to you by Fan Dual Sportsbook. The tournament is here. One of the best times of the year, you got brackets, buzzer beaters, upsets. It's non-stop action from tip-off to final cut down. And right now, Fandle is giving new customers a way to stay in the action all tournament long. Here's the best part.

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And so let's cap off today's bonus edition of the Locked on Titans podcast. Again, we talked about the additions the Titans made on Wednesday. Talked about why the roster is far too full right now. But this is what competition looks like, guys. When you hear Mike Borgonzi or you hear Robert Saller, you hear any coach in the history of coaching, say, we want competition all up and down the roster. This is what that looks like.

You might just think about starters. We want people competing for starting roles. We want our backups to be as good as our starters. And of course, you do want that. You do want that. That would be great. The best teams have guys who are starting level players who aren't starters. But competition applies to every spot.

So you may not be working. about RB4 or RB3, but Michael Carter getting added is competition for Julius Chestnut, for Colell Mullings. That's what competition looks like. Maybe that's not the number one thing

that you think of when you think of competition, but that's exactly what it looks like. When you bring in Hendon Hooker, Will Levis, that's what competition looks like. You know, KJ. Osborne, Xavier Restrepo, Mason Kinsey, That's what competition looks like.

You have to beat out a veteran who's been a productive player in the NFL throughout his career. If Xavier Restrepo's career went like KJ Osborne and he had a KJ Osborne role with the Vikings with the Titans, his career is a success. He did it. Wow. 500, 600 yard seasons. 15 total touchdowns in three years. 150 catches in three years. If Xavier Ostrepo put that together,

we would be singing his praises. One of the greatest undrafted free agents of team history, like Nick Westbrook-Akeenay. Who did it? He did it. He put together a great career. Most people, you know, 99.9% of people on this earth, less than that. You know, there are more nines after the decimal. We'll get to have the kind of career in the NFL

that Nick Westbrook Aquine did that KJ Osborne did. Can you beat him out? because you have to be better than a guy like that who had his peak and is on the way down. If you're not better than a guy like that, you're not going to make it. Because you need to be rising into your peak. That's what competition looks like.

Lance McCutcheon is a bigger-bodied wide receiver guy. Maybe the Titans playing on grabbing one of these big-bodied guys that we talked about yesterday, a Reggie Virgil or Jeff Caldwell, getting one of these bigger-bodied-wide receivers at the end of the draft, then you go up against him. Oliver, you go up against him. So that is what competition looks like.

We don't always think of it that way, but that is how you create, when every single person on the team knows, I am competing for my spot against this person. That is the competition that coaches talk about, that the general manager talks about, and they want to add that all over the roster. So, you know, everybody

wants to make a big statement off of every move, but individually speaking, none of these moves, I think can be traced to the big state. Hendon Hooker, you know, isn't competing to be the backup with Mitch Trubisky. It doesn't necessarily mean Will Levis is getting traded. I thought he was getting traded before that ever happened. So that can't be more motivation there.

Michael Carter means no Jeremiah Love, KJ Osborne, and, you know, Lance McCutcheon mean the Titans aren't going to look to add wide receiver in the draft. No. It's just back end of the roster competition. because everybody needs somebody to compete against. And bringing in some of these veteran guys who can go against maybe some younger players, that's what it looks like.

So, though I would tell you, out of all four, the guy who I think actually could make the roster is Michael Carter. He's a better player than Julius Chesno. So if they don't add a running back in the draft, I think Michael Carter is RB3. And if they add Jeremiah Love,

and cut Tony Pollard, I think that Michael Carter could still be RB3. He runs tougher than Tage Spears. He's not as good of an athlete. Plays special teams. I think Michael Carter has a good chance to make this roster. But with that being said, again, that's going to do it for me today, folks. I'll be back with you tonight for the full length 30-minute edition of Locked on Titans.

Thank you so much for tuning in. If you're watching on YouTube, thumbs up on the video, tighten up down in the chat. With that being said, that's going to do it for me today, folks. as always. I am your host, Tyler Rowland, and this was Locked on Titans.