Titans in Running For Number One Pick in NFL Draft

December 22, 2014

Rick Nyman,

You can win for losing in the NFL. The Tennessee Titans are proving it.

Thanks to a nine-game slide, the Titans (2-13) are in line for the top overall pick in next spring’s draft. They hold the edge on equally inept Tampa Bay because of strength – uh, make that weakness – of schedule.

Under first-year coach Ken Whisenhunt, the Titans have compiled their awful record against opponents with a 108-115-1 mark. That gives their schedule a .484 rating, barely easier than Tampa Bay’s .489 under its first-year coach, Lovie Smith.

Unless they both win home games Sunday – the Titans against AFC South winner Indianapolis, the Bucs vs. New Orleans – one of them will own the top selection.

But which one remains uncertain, because every game must be played across the league to fully determine strength (weakness) of schedule.