Titans wave off Cam Ward's minicamp accuracy issues: the staff isn't worried
Some scattered misses over the past few weeks drew attention, but Tennessee's coaches still see Cam Ward as the long-term answer. The quarterback says the inconsistency comes with learning a new offense and new receivers.
Cam Ward has missed some throws over the past couple of weeks of Titans practice, and the misses were noticeable enough to become a minicamp talking point. Tennessee's coaching staff has heard the chatter and waved it off. Brian Daboll and his staff have downplayed the concern, framing the scattered inaccuracy as the normal cost of a second-year quarterback learning a new system with a new group of receivers.
How worried is the staff about the accuracy?
Not very. Brian Daboll and the Titans coaches have publicly backed Ward and made clear they still see him as the right quarterback to build around. The staff's point is that every quarterback misses throws over the course of an offseason, including some of the most accurate passers in the league, and that a few errant reps in June are not a referendum on a player. The message out of Nashville has been steady: the misses are real, but they are not a problem worth panicking over. Daboll has said he is pleased with where Ward is and that the quarterback understands the offense well.
What does Cam Ward say is going on?
Ward has pointed to the newness of everything around him. He is in a different offense from the one he ran as a rookie, throwing to a reshaped receiving corps, and experimenting with technique as he goes. When asked which reads he is still working through, Ward kept it broad. "Every play," he said. "It just depends what coverage our defense presents." The framing fits a quarterback still mapping a new system rather than one fighting a mechanical flaw, and it lines up with how the staff has described his offseason.
Did minicamp change the picture?
It helped. Ward had a sharper day to open the team's mandatory minicamp on Tuesday after the rougher stretch through OTAs, which took some of the heat off the accuracy storyline. The improvement matters less for what it proved in a single session and more for the direction it suggested. Tennessee wants to see the inconsistency fade as Ward gets more comfortable, and a cleaner showing at minicamp is the kind of progress the staff has been pointing to. There is still a long runway to training camp, but the trend the coaches want is the one they got.
Why does any of this matter for the Titans?
Because the whole rebuild runs through Ward. Tennessee took him first overall in 2025 and is trying to climb out of the bottom of the AFC South, and the offseason plan was built around making life easier on him. The Titans gave him new pass-catchers, including downfield rookie Carnell Tate, and kept Tony Pollard as the lead back to lean on the run. Ward also reported lighter and has thrown himself into learning the offense. A few offseason misses do not threaten that plan, which is exactly why the staff has been comfortable shrugging them off rather than treating them as a warning sign.
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- ESPN: Titans confident in Cam Ward despite QB's accuracy issues
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