Every once in a while, the NFL schedule gives you a late-season game where the fan bases of both teams are cheering for their own team to lose because of what it might mean for draft position. The Tennessee Titans vs. Jacksonville Jaguars game on Sunday is one of those games. The Jaguars are a very slim home favorite and looking to complete a season sweep of a Titans team that enters on a four-game losing streak.
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The stakes for this game could not be clearer.
With matching 3-12 records they are both currently positioned to have a top-four pick in the 2025 NFL Draft (Jacksonville at No. 3 overall and Tennessee at No. 4 overall). The loser will pretty much all but guarantee itself a top-five pick and potentially even a top-three pick. The winner could take itself out of the top five.
It is important to keep in mind in discussions like this that the players and coaches could not care less about draft position. They are playing for jobs and pride, and they do not get to the highest level of the sport by not trying to win every game. They are playing to win.
That includes Titans quarterback Mason Rudolph, who has taken over the starting job and is looking to show teams that he might be worth taking another chance on this offseason in free agency. He has four touchdown passes and 461 yards over the past two games but has struggled to protect the football since taking over for second-year quarterback Will Levis. Players like Rudolph aren’t thinking about a draft draft pick that will get made after they find a new team.
But the fans? Viewers? The outside world? People with money on the line? That is a different story, and the 2025 NFL Draft implications are the only thing that is going to make this game interesting to anybody not playing in it, including the fans of the Titans and Jaguars.
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