Tate was a playmaker for the Buckeyes, where he started 15 games for the school’s national championship team in 2024. Tate followed up that season with another big year, and after running a 4.53 at the NFL Combine, the waiting game began for the NFL Draft. It was just a matter of when he’d be picked.<\/p>\n
Tate led the country with five receiving touchdowns with a throw depth of 40-plus yards in 2025, per Pro Football Focus. Per PFF, he also led the Big 10 with six receiving touchdowns on contested targets.<\/p>\n
During the pre-draft process, Tate made a visit to Nashville to meet with the Titans, when he had lunch with quarterback Cam Ward and offensive coordinator Brian Daboll.<\/p>\n
“I talked to Cam, a great conversation with G-Lew (receivers coach Greg Lewis), Brian Daboll, Coach (Robert) Saleh,” Tate said. “It was great.<\/p>\n
“G-Lew is my guy. \u2026 I chopped it up with Cam a little bit, too, he just wished me well. I was able to sit down with him during lunch, and also coach Daboll. He believes in his guys, and he ultimately believes in me. I am thankful for him, and he is a great OC, great play-caller.”<\/p>\n
Tate hopes to make a difference in Tennessee, alongside Ward and others.<\/p>\n
Tate is scheduled to fly to Nashville on Friday morning, and he’ll be introduced at a press conference on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n
“I know Cam is one of the elite quarterbacks in the league,” Tate said, “and he’s only continuing to get better.<\/p>\n
“I’m looking forward to (the next step). I’m looking forward to going out there and making plays and helping the organization.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tate was a playmaker for the Buckeyes, where he started 15 games for the school’s national championship team…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":748988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[10],"tags":[308389,308388,308387,57460,308308,13880,308386,62,55472,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-748987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-2026-draft-carnell-tate","tag-2026pick4","tag-all-content-2026-draft","tag-carnell-tate","tag-draft-tracker-card","tag-homepage-centerpiece","tag-news-2026-draft","tag-sports","tag-team-football-news","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116457674159778191","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/748988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}