Titans GM Reveals Team's Biggest Needs

The Tennessee Titans head into this offseason with several needs to address on both sides of the ball. After suffering from a brutal 3-14 regular season with a bottom-six-ranked offense and defense, this group has some changes to make across the coming months.
The Titans need some fresh talent in the building. After enduring three straight losing seasons in the past three years, it's clear this roster sits a few steps away from contention.
Tennessee will need to make a few bold moves on their personnel in both free agency and this year's draft to add contributors in all phases to get where they'd like to be. Luckily, new Titans general manager Mike Borgonzi is ironing out a plan to do just that.
During the Senior Bowl, Borgonzi was asked what he feels may be the biggest areas of need to address on the roster this offseason, where he didn't hold back on his ambitions to strengthen the trenches and create competition before anything.
"We have some holes to fill on the offensive line – that would be number one," Borgonzi said. "And then, just depth level across the whole team right now. Creating competition is going to be the biggest thing. Whether it's through free agency, through the draft, there might be a guy that we sign off the street as a workout guy. But really, we want to build the fronts first– offensive, defensive lines, then build depth around the perimeter."
Correcting the offensive and defensive lines clearly stands at the top of Borgonzi's to-do list. But his comments here could ultimately lead to some interesting conversations on how the Titans approach their top pick in this year's draft.
Tons of the talk surrounding the Titans' number-one pick in this year's draft centers around the expectation they take a quarterback at the top of the board. Yet, more indications are starting to show that Tennessee isn't quite locked into attacking that position, and could shift focus into other areas.
Titans president Chad Brinker recently voiced the team won't pass on a "generational talent" with their number one pick. If getting the trenches right is a top priority for this regime, perhaps more traction can get picked up on the Abdul Carter hype train, a player who's gained considerable attention as one of the draft's best talents. Maybe even a trade-down for more picks down the board to help add depth and security in the trenches could be in play, too.
At this point in the scouting and evaluation process, it's hard to predict exactly how the Titans will tackle their draft, or even the entire offseason, for that matter. Yet, sprinkling in some extra talent and depth on both lines seems to be how Borgonzi sees his approach kicking off.