The Tennessee Titans are five practices and one week into training camp, two of those sessions in pads, and the picture is starting to take shape. Before the team heads to San Francisco for a joint practice and the first preseason game against the 49ers, and with the newly created blue-and-white scrimmage set for Friday night in Nissan Stadium, it’s time for a solid week 1 stock report.

This exercise isn’t about the marquee names. Cam Ward hasn’t done anything to change his stock. He’s still somebody you should invest in. This is about the players whose arrows are pointing up before it’s too late, the ones trending down, and a handful of notable neutrals who find themselves in a weird spot where they need to generate some buzz but haven’t yet.

Stock up

Elic Ayomanor, WR

Elic Ayomanor has the highest increasing stock price of anybody on the Titans roster. The second-year Stanford product has gone from a fourth-round pick on Day 3 a year ago who was shoved into duty early and struggled to play as big as he is, to a completely transformed player. Easton Freeze has been driving the Ayomanor hype train since before he was drafted, and the receiver is rewarding that belief.

Ayomanor looks physically different. He’s completely transformed his body, changed his entire stance to allow less wasted movement, better leverage, better body control, and better body language. His route-running is quicker and more explosive. He struggled with drops as a rookie, and that hasn’t been an issue. He’s shown the ability to go up and get the football in contested-catch situations, and the pads came on and he just kept getting stronger. Obvious stock up.

Tyjae Spears, RB (with an honorable mention for Nick Singleton)

I’ve been in on Tyjae Spears ever since I first saw him in an OTA and how Brian Daboll was going to use the Titans’ contract-year running back. Spears is an ultimate weapon. He looks healthy, and he’s looked healthy every training camp, though that hasn’t been the case once we’ve gotten to the regular season.

If you’ve been a Titans fan at any of these open practices, you’ve seen all the different places Spears lines up in this offense. Think of it like a basketball shot chart for a player who takes shots from every area of the court. Spears can get the ball anywhere. Stock up.

Nick Singleton gets an honorable mention alongside Spears. The rookie running back is somebody the Titans like internally. He started to emerge more with his physicality and speed when the pads came on Tuesday morning, ripping off a nice breakaway run. For a college running back, he’s a pretty solid pass protector. We’ll see how he continues carving out a role behind Tony Pollard and Spears.

James Williams Sr., LB

I had James Williams cut in my first 53-man roster projection this spring because I didn’t know how he’d make this team. The Titans have a lot of linebackers they like. Cody Barton is valuable. Cedric Gray is potentially a budding star going into his third year. Rookie Anthony Hill Jr., the 60th overall pick, had two interceptions on Tuesday and isn’t going anywhere. Then the team brought in veteran linebackers like Mohamoud Diabate and Dorian Mausi to bring competition.

Williams has risen to it. Three interceptions in the first week, plus multiple run stops where he’s shown up behind the line of scrimmage. He’s filled holes well. For a guy who was a college safety, I personally overlooked how he fits the Robert Saleh defense. Williams reportedly dropped 20 pounds to play in this scheme, and it makes sense. He’s gotta be in this defense’s plans now? Stock up.

Josh Williams, CB

Josh Williams is the most physical corner the Titans have. At 6-foot-3, 200 pounds, he’s long, and I’ve started to see him flash more and more in coverage. He missed the tail end of the spring with a minor injury, but he’s come in and stood out. In Kansas City last year he only played about a dozen snaps on defense with nearly all of his work coming on special teams. As the Titans look for cornerback depth behind Alontae Taylor and Cordell Flott, Josh Williams is a solid stock-up option one week into camp.

Stock down

Mitch Trubisky, QB

Mitch Trubisky isn’t in jeopardy of getting cut. He’s this team’s backup quarterback. But he’s gone from really shiny and solid in June OTAs and minicamp to throwing a bunch of interceptions. The shine has worn off. He was operating smoothly in the spring, clearly comfortable in Daboll’s offense after coming back from the birth of his child, and then he threw three interceptions on Tuesday’s practice alone. James Williams got him. Anthony Hill got him twice.

I still feel confident Trubisky is a quality backup behind Cam Ward, and I don’t think there’s any competition from Will Levis for that No. 2 job. Trubisky has just had a shakier start to training camp than I expected based on how solid he looked in the spring.

Michael Carter, RB

I don’t see any way Michael Carter makes this team. There are six running backs, and Carter is running back No. 6 right now. Pollard is the bell cow. Spears and Singleton are stock-up players. Julius Chestnut has been effective with his opportunities, and second-year back Khalil Mullings out of Michigan has been solid enough that he could have been a stock-up candidate if he wasn’t already the third stock-up running back behind Spears and Singleton.

Carter played for Saleh with the Jets, and this isn’t meant to be rude, but I think Carter’s job here is to help the other third-teamers get good work in by being a great teammate, a good practice player, and a good preseason game player for the guys around him who are fighting for a roster spot.

Austin Deculus, OT

I thought Deculus was cemented as the swing tackle, but Brandon Crenshaw-Dickson could really beat him out. Crenshaw-Dickson has been better without pads and, through two days, has been better with pads too. I don’t know what that means for Deculus’s roster security, but it’s a real battle, and right now Crenshaw-Dickson is winning it.

Micah Robinson, CB

Robinson’s stock grew a lot over OTAs and minicamp in the spring. On Monday’s A to Z show, I listed him as one of my players on shrink watch when it came to guys who might disappear when the pads came on. Unfortunately, I think I’m right. Robinson is at best the fourth outside corner, maybe battling for a fifth spot. To his benefit, Keidrean Callaghan isn’t doing much either, but the Titans signed Nazeeh Johnson from the Chiefs, a former teammate of Josh Williams, adding more competition. Robinson has cooled off. He’s still a betting favorite to make the roster, but his odds of getting cut have gotten a lot closer to his odds of making the team.

Notable stock neutrals

Femi Oladejo, EDGE

Femi Oladejo looks like he’s got it all together from a physical and athletic standpoint. He’s changed positions basically three seasons in a row, going from an off-ball linebacker to a 3-4 edge rusher standing up to a 4-3 defensive end with his hand in the dirt. He hasn’t had a lot of experience doing that because of the broken leg last year. I like the physical profile and the athletic upside a lot. I just haven’t noticed him yet. Two days of pads, maybe the scrimmage Friday night or joint practices in San Francisco is when Oladejo can start to make some plays. But a notable neutral for Femi Oladejo isn’t great. You want him to take a step, not just be right there.

Cody Barton, LB

This is probably just because the other guys, James Williams and Anthony Hill Jr., have been flashing. Barton hasn’t done much, and that could be the plan. The Titans have a lot of young guys in the linebacker room. Barton is vocal, he’s not going anywhere, and I think he starts the season as one of the inside linebackers next to Cedric Gray with Hill breathing down his neck as the year goes on. Maybe he’s on a veteran chill track, pacing himself for the regular season. But I remember last year at Cam Ward’s rookie training camp, Barton got Ward a couple times in zone coverage with interceptions, and that stood out to me. Haven’t seen that yet. It’s early, but some of the other guys in his position group are making plays, and he’s not.

Wan’Dale Robinson, WR

Wan’Dale Robinson is going to get, in my opinion, the most targets of anybody in this offense through the passing game this season. But I’ve noticed drops. I’ve noticed him put the ball on the ground. There was a fumble at the end of a play Monday, the first day in pads. He had a tip off his fingers that became Cam Ward’s first interception of training camp. This is a guy the Titans are paying a lot of money to, and I believe he’s a great fit for the offense. He’s caught some really nice passes from Ward over the middle and projects as a great security blanket. He just needs to up the ante on ball security, both with drops and after the catch. Robinson falls here because he’s been a little up and down in a volatile way.

Will Levis, QB

Levis is a notable neutral, which I actually think is an improvement from where I was with him for most of the spring. He was having too many crazy roller-coaster practices in OTAs and minicamp, and he’s kind of settled in. He hasn’t been too terribly bad after the first couple practices. But a notable neutral for Will Levis is not going to be good enough for him to get to his next opportunity. He needs to be a stock up so the Titans can find a trade partner for him, so he’s not third on the depth chart, buried in a place where he’s never going to be the starter, never the future, never part of the plans. Levis has three preseason games where he’s going to play a lot of football. He’s got plenty of chances to change the narrative.