After being mostly quiet on Tuesday, Tennessee Titans general manager Mike Borgonzi pulled the trigger on another big trade and once again came away with a tremendous haul.
The Titans traded veteran safety Amani Hooker and a fifth-round pick to the Buffalo Bills in exchange for a 2027 second-round pick. This was an outstanding return for the 29-year-old safety and gives Tennessee much-needed draft capital for 2027.
The move was somewhat of a surprise, but Ben Solak of ESPN sees Tennessee as one of the big winners at the 2026 trade deadline
Deadline winner: Titans
The Titans are filling the coffers, and rightfully so. After sending Simmons to the Bears for two first-round picks, general manager Mike Borgonzi kept the train rolling by sending Amani
Hooker to the Bills for a second-round pick. The Titans now have four top-64 picks in the 2027 draft.
That flexibility will be huge as they decide what to do at quarterback. Second-year passer Cam Ward played the best ball of his NFL career when we last saw him—a Week 8 late-game loss to the Bengals—but he'll need to stack several of those days to prove he's turned a corner and deserves to enter Year 3 unchallenged as the Titans' starting quarterback.
Trading Hooker was also the last remnant of Jon Robinson’s drafts, and the haul was far more than the fifth- and sixth-round picks Ran Carthon scored for Kevin Byard at the deadline in 2023, giving Tennessee five of the top 66 picks in the 2027 draft.
While the move was a bit of a surprise, it was also good business and should help Tennessee speed up their rebuild.
This article originally appeared on Titans Wire: Tennessee Titans named one of the big trade deadline winners
