The Facts: Titans GM Jon Robinson told reporters on Friday night that the team did not consult with Tannehill, their current starting quarterback, before trading up to select quarterback Malik Willis in round three of the 2022 NFL draft. Willis, regarded by many as a first-round prospect, slid through the first two rounds and into round three.

Diehards Line: Tannehill didn’t show up for the start of the voluntary offseason program as he enters the penultimate season of a four-year contract with the Titans. While the cap consequences protected him against the team moving on in 2022, it gets much easier to move in a different direction for 2023. A top-10 pick of the Dolphins in 2012, Tannehill arrived in Tennessee three years ago, when Marcus Mariota was the entrenched starter. The Titans eventually benched Mariota for Tannehill, who became the comeback player of the year. After three interceptions in a playoff loss by the top-seeded Titans to the Bengals, Tannehill became a magnet for criticism. The Titans circled the wagons, but questions have lingered regarding his future with the team. With Willis now on the roster, those questions won’t go away. Meanwhile, Tannhill will have to show that he can generate the kind of performance that prompts the Titans to keep Willis on the back burner, indefinitely. Tannehill will have to do it with a new-look receiving corps, headlined by Robert Woods (acquired from the Rams) and Treylon Burks, a first-rounder who will be expected to step right in and replace A.J. Brown.