Cam Ward is the biggest winner of the Titans gaining the first overall draft pick from NFL Week 10 results

The Tennessee Titans enjoyed a merciful bye this past weekend, but they managed to come out the other side as winners without lifting a finger. If you check every sad and bad team’s favorite website this time of year, Tankathon.com, you’ll see that the Fighting Cam Ward’s are suddenly in the draft driver’s seat. If the NFL season ended today, the Titans would have the first overall pick… again.

Here are the five big wins Tennessee got from Week 10 in their quest for the best possible draft pick at the end of this nightmarish season:

The Jets are 2-7 with a win

They were calling it the first Tank Bowl of the season up in East Rutherford, New Jersey this weekend. Titans fans of course know that the real Tank Bowl of the 2025 season is scheduled for Week 17 when the Saints visit the Titans, but more on New Orleans in a moment. In Week 10, we got the one win Jets hosting the two win Browns for a massive swing in top pick probability.

The Jets won with a pair of special teams touchdowns in the return game, landing them their second victory in a row and elevating them to fifth in the current draft order. Their aggressive selling at the trade deadline may have indicated a tank could be in the cards, but it also signaled belief in GM Darren Mougey and HC Aaron Glenn. These two suddenly have their franchise producing in the wins column with scrappy performances, and each one is a boost for Tennessee’s draft standing.

The Saints are 2-8 with a win

New Orleans landed their second win of the year in a 17-7 upset at the Panthers. It was rookie second round pick Tyler Shough’s first career win, and he’s been showing some flashes since the switch was made from Spencer Rattler a few weeks ago. If he starts to put some things together down the stretch, the Saints schedule has some winnable games left on it. They play Carolina again at home, the Falcons twice, and then three big games that will determine the top of the draft order: at the Dolphins, vs the Jets, and at the Titans.

The Dolphins are 3-7 with a win

The Dolphins got their third win in one of the biggest upsets of the season so far. They were 8.5 point home underdogs to the division rival Bills, but they came away victorious in a 30-13 stomping. This is notable for Tennessee on a couple of fronts. First, another two win team gets their third, which creates breathing room for Cam Ward and company to do some winning of their own (a thing that would be really good for them!). Second, it furthers the idea that the Dolphins are committed to head coach Mike McDaniel, a popular candidate for Titans fans to float in their next coaching staff discussion. I don’t expect him to be available at this point. I think ownership has all but chosen him over the GM and the quarterback in recent weeks. We’ll see if that holds.

The Ravens are 4-5 with a win

The Baltimore Ravens got their third straight win over the Vikings in Week 10, which is important for the Titans’ trade with them last week. As GM Mike Borgonzi said at his trade deadline press conference, “Let’s hope the Ravens go to the playoffs and Dre’Mont has two more sacks and we get a fourth-round pick out of it.” Baltimore has a favorable schedule to bounce back from a 1-5 start and make the postseason, which they’re increasingly favored by Vegas to do. As long as former Titan Dre’Mont Jones gets a pair of sacks in these final two months (something he came close to starting this weekend), their fifth round pick will become a fourth.

Fernando Mendoza, Ty Simpson, and Dante Moore showed out

The fifth and final Titans win from this past weekend came from the college ranks. Having the best possible draft pick to sell for a haul matters much more if there are quarterbacks at the top of the draft worth trading for!