The Tennessee Titans unraveled in small, telling ways last season, making everything harder for Cam Ward than it needed to be. The numbers looked respectable on the surface, but the rhythm underneath was off.
Drives stalled. Protection broke down too quickly. And more often than not, Ward found himself improvising not by design, but out of necessity.
Why Jeremiyah Love Is the Perfect Safety Valve for Cam Ward
There is a difference between a quarterback who creates magic and one who’s forced to chase it. Right now, Ward has been living somewhere in between. This is where Daniel Jeremiah comes in with a pitch.
Giving his draft projection on Jeremiyah Love, he said on “The Pat McAfee Show”:
“I have him right behind Fernando. … Man, I look at Tennessee, and don’t you have to do something for your quarterback? Do something to help him out here. … You get a chance to give him a player like this … that’s an easy sales pitch. Now, we’re a fun, exciting team with a young quarterback and a dynamic running back thrown into the mix. We can throw him the ball a ton. I love the fit there in Tennessee.”
“I have Jeremiyah Love right behind Fernando in my rankings and he’s not getting out of the top ten..
I love the fit for him with Tennessee and Cam Ward..
If he starts to get towards seven I think some teams are gonna make some phone calls”@MoveTheSticks #PMSLive pic.twitter.com/1aVFnS7Acn
— Pat McAfee (@PatMcAfeeShow) March 27, 2026
There is something almost novel-like about the way Love moves, and it earned him a PFSN draft grade of 90.37. His 4.36 speed isn’t only fast; it’s disorienting. Defenders take angles that should work until suddenly they don’t.
What looks contained becomes an open field, and an open field becomes points. At Notre Dame, that wasn’t occasional. It was a pattern, the kind that forces defenses to account for him on every snap, whether they want to or not.
For Ward, that kind of presence feels like oxygen.
Last season often felt like holding his breath. The offense lacked an easy answer, a player he could turn to when the structure cracked. Love becomes that answer almost immediately.
He is not just a runner but a receiver who understands how to exist in the gray areas of a play. Ward thrives outside of structure; Love complements that instinct. He can drift into space, reset his route, and give his quarterback something clean in the middle of chaos.
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Then there’s the topic of protection. Ward absorbed hit after hit behind a line that had a hard time keeping the pocket intact, and those hits add up in ways that stats don’t always capture.
Love brings a kind of physicality here. He doesn’t shy away from contact. He meets it. He buys a second longer. And sometimes, a second is the difference between a sack and a completion.
