{"id":37966,"date":"2025-12-18T04:11:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T04:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=37966"},"modified":"2025-12-18T04:11:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T04:11:50","slug":"cam-ward-wants-titans-to-involve-him-in-hc-search-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=37966","title":{"rendered":"Cam Ward wants Titans to involve him in HC search process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<ul class=\"authors\">\n<li class=\"mugshot-shown\">\n<p>Turron Davenport<span class=\"timestamp \">Dec 17, 2025, 04:01 PM ET<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Close<\/p>\n<ul>Turron Davenport covers the Tennessee Titans for ESPN since 2018. Turron is a former collegiate football player at Cheyney University and is a native of Philadelphia, and he has authored\/co-authored four books. You can catch Turron on ESPN Radio on his show &#8220;Talking with TD.&#8221;<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>NASHVILLE, Tenn. &#8212; As the Tennessee Titans wrap up their unsuccessful 2025 season, their attention is beginning to turn to the search for their next coach &#8212; and quarterback Cam Ward wants to be a part of the process.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to meet all of them,&#8221; Ward said of the next candidates. &#8220;Every coach who gets the opportunity to come here, I want to have conversations throughout the process with them. I&#8217;m going to be here for that whole time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ward said president of football operations Chad Brinker and general manager Mike Borgonzi had spoken with him about his involvement in the search. The rookie quarterback said he&#8217;ll be all-in on the next head coach regardless of whether it&#8217;s a defensive- or offensive-minded hire.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"editorial-title\">Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>1 Related<\/p>\n<p>Tennessee fired coach Brian Callahan in October after a 1-5 start to the season, citing a lack of team growth and individual progress from Ward, despite the coach&#8217;s offensive background.<\/p>\n<p>Ward was very outspoken about his support for Callahan during training camp saying he wanted to play well enough to make Callahan one of the top coaches in the league.<\/p>\n<p>Now the Titans are searching for Callahan&#8217;s replacement. Interim coach Mike McCoy hasn&#8217;t been able to get better results, posting a 1-8 record since taking over.<\/p>\n<p>According to a team source, the Titans are looking for a candidate with strong leadership skills who will help establish an identity, something the team has lacked over the past two seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turron DavenportDec 17, 2025, 04:01 PM ET Close Turron Davenport covers the Tennessee Titans for ESPN since 2018. Turron is a former collegiate football player at Cheyney University and is a native of Philadelphia, and he has authored\/co-authored four books. You can catch Turron on ESPN Radio on his show &#8220;Talking with TD.&#8221; NASHVILLE, Tenn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[6440,12569,3136,2018,6844,5889],"class_list":{"0":"post-37966","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-cam","9":"tag-involve","10":"tag-process","11":"tag-search","12":"tag-titans","13":"tag-ward"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}