With the Tennessee Titans sitting at 2-4 and faced with possibly not having their starting quarterback Ryan Tannehill due to injury, many are rightly pegging the team as a potential seller at the trade deadline.
The Titans have several veteran players on both sides of the ball who could draw interest, with the most notable of the bunch being running back Derrick Henry, who was the subject of trade rumors this past offseason.
But in order for the Titans to trade Henry or any of their other veterans, the team would basically have to admit defeat at the halfway point of the year (the trade deadline is in Week 9 on Oct. 31), something I’m not sure head coach Mike Vrabel would be down with.
Adding to that, trading any key offensive players away would be a detriment to the development of Tennessee’s young quarterbacks, both of whom figure to get some run in the second half of the season, unless Tannehill is healthy enough to play and Tennessee remains in the hunt for a playoff spot.
Still, it’s something the Titans should consider if the price is right, and that’s especially true with Henry, who still has something left in the tank but is set to hit the dreaded age of 30 in January.
This team doesn’t look like it’s going anywhere this year and there is a major need for draft picks in 2024, with Tennessee not having selections in the third, fifth and sixth rounds.
Bleacher Report’s Alex Kay recently came up with four trade scenarios for the Titans’ star back, and to be quite frank, I’d be a fan of any of them, even though letting a franchise great like Henry go would be a tough pill to swallow.