The Tennessee Titans secured the No. 1 overall pick in the 2025 NFL Draft after a loss in Week 18. However, general manager Ran Carthon will not make that selection.
The team announced Tuesday that, after two seasons, it has parted ways with Carthon.
The Titans were 3-14 this season and 9-25 the last two years with Carthon at the helm.
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Tennessee Titans general manager Ran Carthon arrives for their game against the Bears at Soldier Field in Chicago on Sept. 8, 2024. (IMAGE)
Titans team owner Amy Adams Strunk informed Carthon that the team would make a change Tuesday morning.
“I loved the time I spent with Ran. He is a talented football mind, a great man and a friend to everyone who comes his way. It is impossible to ignore that our football team has not improved in the last two years. “I am “deeply disappointed by our poor win-loss record during this period, of course, but my decision also speaks to my concern about our long-term future if we stay the course,” Strunk said in a statement.
“I love this team more than you can imagine. To our fans: We know this level of performance is not acceptable. We are honored by your support as we continue to work to build the team you expect and deserve.”
Despite Carthon’s firing, head coach Brian Callahan will return next season.
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Tennessee Titans general manager Ran Carthon and head coach Brian Callahan introduce first-round pick JC Latham in Nashville on April 26, 2024. (IMAGE)
President of football operations Chad Brinker will lead the search for their new general manager.
In the Titans’ statement, Brinker listed what he will be looking for.
“I think the general manager position is unique to their respective organizations. In this particular job, what we will be looking for is someone who has spent their career as a scout, who is a top-level evaluator who has passed the majority of career in projecting college players to the National Football League, they have played a major role in establishing the draft board into a preferably consistent, winning organization, and you can see their fingerprints all over the roster,” Brinker said.
“He’s someone who wakes up every day and the only thing he thinks about is building a roster, evaluating players, watching tape, working with the coaching staff. And not just someone who knows how to put together talent, but someone who really understands how building a team and how all the pieces fit together that I can work with not just in the short term, winning today, but also building for the future, long term, and understanding how all those pieces fit together here, how it affects one. decision on the future path, and really understand the puzzle complete.
Tennessee Titans general manager Ran Carthon speaks to the media at the team’s Ascension Saint Thomas Sports Park in Nashville on April 26, 2024. (IMAGE)
“At the end of the day, this person will be engaged all day. They will focus on the roster and the coaching staff, and I will continue in my role of managing all the other areas that surround the team. The center of our program, scouts and coaches. “So, I’ll support that person, but we’re looking for a general manager who wakes up every day and is focused on building the team.”
Whoever the new general manager is, he has the first pick in the draft and a little more than $61 million in cap space, according to Over The Cap.
The big question for their new general manager is what they want to do at the quarterback position after second-year quarterback Will Levis struggled this season.
