As we turn the calendar from February to March, we are now less than two weeks away from the start of free agency, where the Tennessee Titans will have ample cap space to improve their roster.
Free agents can begin negotiating with teams on March 11, the start of the legal tampering period, and players available on the open market can begin signing on the dotted line on March 13.
According to Over the Cap, the Titans have a whopping $75.6 million in cap space entering free agency, the fourth-most in the NFL.
While many would assume a lot of cap space means the Titans will go on a spending spree, general manager Ran Carthon has made it clear the team won’t spend big just because it has the money and instead will exercise patience and be smart with its money.
“It’s a lot of cap space,” Carthon said, per Jim Wyatt. “But we have to spend wisely. We don’t want to just load up and spend money.
“Again, we are trying to build a long-term, consistent thing, and you can’t do that spending all $90 million out front. We have to be patient, and we have to position ourselves, (knowing) there are going to be guys that come free in June and July, like when we got D-Hop, that we have to have the space for and be able to afford it.”
“We plan to be active,” Carthon added, “but we are going to be patient and let everything come to us.”
The Titans have a slew of needs up and down their roster and have multiple avenues to address them.
One of them is, of course, free agency, which will come before the 2024 NFL draft. And, what the Titans do in free agency may alter their plans in the draft, so things could change drastically between now and then.
With free agency less than two weeks away, here’s a look at the Titans’ biggest needs at each position group on offense.