If there is any lingering doubt about where University of Miami quarterback Cam Ward expects to go in next week’s NFL Draft, the future pro dropped a pretty big hint during a video game livestream.
Asked for his top NFL running backs, the 22-year-old casually responded with a pair of Tennessee Titans stars: ‘Tony Pollard, [Tyjae] Spears.’
Then, when asked for his favorite receivers, Ward conspicuously named Titans teammates Treylon Burks and Calvin Ridley.
Of course, Ward has been widely projected to be going first overall on April 24 in Green Bay, where the Titans are scheduled to make the first pick. And, since Ward has already met with the team brass, many took his answers as confirmation he expects to play in Nashville next season.
The reasoning does make some sense.
While they are major contributors for the Titans, Ridley, Burks, Pollard and Spears are not considered among the best players at their respective positions, so Ward appeared to be talking up his new teammates.
Miami quarterback Cam Ward throws during the school’s pro day last month in Coral Gables
‘Cam isn’t even trying to hide it anymore,’ NFL content aggregator Dov Kleiman wrote on X.
‘Cam Ward is a Titan, and is not hiding it at all lol,’ read a similar post from a Titans fan account.
Barstool Sports also got in on the action: ‘I wonder where he’s being drafted.’
Ward will be on hand in Green Bay next week when the NFL Draft does get under way.
Other quarterbacks who will be in attendance are Ole Miss’s Jaxson Dart and Alabama’s Jalen Milroe, while Colorado’s Shedeur Sanders appears to be skipping the event.
Ward was once thought to be in competition with Sanders for the top spot, but has apparently impressed Titans scouts with his pro day workout and his interviews.
A transfer from Incarnate Word and Washington State, Ward went 10-3 in his only season with Miami, while completing 67.2 percent of his passes for 4,313 yards and leading the nation with 39 touchdown passes.
Sanders, meanwhile, finished second in the country with 37 touchdowns while completing an NCAA-best 74 percent of his passes.
