Tennessee Titans quarterback Will Levis is preparing for what will be a crucial season for his career, as the 2023 second-round pick is looking to prove he’s “the guy” for the Titans.
Levis definitely showed flashes during his rookie campaign, but there were also negatives. However, it was hard to fully gauge where he stands thanks to a dreadful supporting cast that has since been improved.
Pro Football Focus’ Sam Monson recently gave his projections for Levis’ floor and ceiling, along with other second-year quarterbacks.
For the ceiling, Monson believes Levis can be a Pro Bowl-caliber quarterback. As far as his floor is concerned, it’s former Tennessee backup, Blaine Gabbert.
Here’s what Monson wrote:
Levis made an obvious immediate impact when he came in for the Titans last season, but that impact didn’t last. He threw four touchdown passes in his debut, and then four total over the remaining eight games.
Where things get complicated is in factoring in the supporting cast. Tennessee had the league’s worst offensive line for the second straight season, negating the strength of the team’s best player on offense (Derrick Henry) as well as putting Levis under an unreasonable amount of pressure. DeAndre Hopkins showed he can still make plays, but the receiving corps featured little else.
Tennessee has done a great job of upgrading the key areas around Levis this offseason, and the flashes we saw from him as a rookie suggest his ceiling is very high. His arm talent is truly elite, and he’s a powerful and effective, if a little reckless, scrambler.
His floor, however, remains low. His struggles could be explained away by the supporting cast, but the risk is that is just a better indication of his baseline, and the worst-case scenario is he has all the athletic tools for the position but can never put it together consistently.
The only higher ceiling available in Monson’s projections was All-Pro, which he gave to Indianapolis Colts quarterback Anthony Richardson and Houston Texans signal-caller C.J. Stroud.
That said, Levis becoming a Pro Bowl-caliber quarterback wouldn’t be bad by any means and should be enough for the Titans to compete for a Super Bowl down the road, assuming general manager Ran Carthon is successful in building the rest of the roster.
