Titans can get first definitive answer on massive Cam Ward question this week at NFL Combine

Combine is the first pre-draft event that Ward will be in attendance for. 

Tennessee, holding this year's No. 1 overall pick in the NFL Draft, took a sizable contingent to both the East-West Shrine Bowl and the Senior Bowl last month. At Shrine Bowl, Colorado quarterback Shedeur Sanders was in attendance and was able to have both a formal and informal meeting with the Titans. Coach Brian Callahan, general manager Mike Borgonzi and their respective staffs will get in a room with Ward, and other prospects in attendance, for the league-allowed 18 minutes per player this week. 

“You just don't go in there blind and just start free-forming questions," said former NFL head coach Dave McGinnis. "So, all of that is decided, you know, who's going to be in the room, what you're going to ask, how you're going to present, depending on who you've got in there. But it's 18 minutes at the combine, but what that helps with, and Jim Nagy has helped this a lot because he has set up individual interviews now at the Senior Bowl, which you didn't used to have.

"So, you got this set up there, but then you can start narrowing that down to the people that you want to visit at a school workout where you get longer with them. You get as long as you want at those schools that the workout has happened. And then you constrict that group down to the 60 that you're going to be able to invite in to your visit here in Nashville."

Ward's competitiveness and spirit is held in incredibly high regard. 

Before Tennessee makes any kind of decision at quarterback, they must first find out as much as they can about the intangibles that Ward, or anyone else, can bring to a football team that is in desperate need of direction. The 2024 campaign that saw the Titans finish 3-14 exposed many flaws, including a general lack of team identity.

Interviews with Ward this week will be critical in determining whether he can be a part of the solution in Tennessee.