​The Tennessee Titans have a roster full of necessary building blocks but precious few homegrown players trending toward elite trade value.The Tennessee Titans have won just 12 of their last 59 games dating back to the 2022 season. They enter 2026 on their third head coach and third general manager in that span.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementZERO picks from the 2020, 2021, or 2022 draft classes remains on this roster. That brutal stretch of futility has left Tennessee in a strange place, and ESPN’s Bill Barnwell just provided the perfect lens to see exactly how strange it is.Barnwell publishes an annual column identifying every NFL player worth at least one first-round pick in a hypothetical trade, broken down by team. Most of these trades will never happen. The Chiefs aren’t moving Patrick Mahomes, and the Bills aren’t shipping Josh Allen. Barnwell lists both quarterbacks at a value of seven first-round picks, a number that isn’t even legal under the current CBA’s three-draft trading window.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementBut these exercises do reflect real market dynamics. Micah Parsons got traded. Sauce Gardner and Quinnen Williams left the Jets. The Giants moved Dexter Lawrence for the 10th overall pick. Max Crosby was briefly dealt for two first-round picks before the Ravens backed out. The Rams have made this a lifestyle, trading three first-round picks across separate deals involving Myles Garrett and Trent McDuffie.Barnwell landed on just four Titans worth at least a first-round pick via trade: quarterback Cam Ward (two first-round picks), defensive tackle Jeffrey Simmons (one first-round pick and more), guard Peter Skowroński (one first-round pick), and wide receiver Carnell Tate (one first-round pick), who has yet to play an NFL game.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementRookie defensive end Keldric Faulk landed in Barnwell’s “missing out” category as a player who is close but not quite there.That’s where this roster exercise gets genuinely weird.When you start asking who on this Titans roster could develop into first-round-pick trade value over the next few years, the answers are thin and require very specific things to play out.Faulk has position value working in his favor because edge rushers command premium trade compensation. But he’s not a prototypical sack artist in the mold of Parsons or Garrett. He’s the “big end” in Robert Saleh’s defense, similar to John Franklin-Myers, and that archetype doesn’t typically generate first-round-pick trade interest.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementI think Faulk will be a very good NFL player because of how perfectly he fits Saleh’s scheme. I just don’t know if his style of play will ever warrant that level of value.JC Latham should be on this list. A top-10 draft pick who plays tackle, left or right, should carry first-round-pick trade value. But he hasn’t lived up to that yet. The encouraging part is that Latham is only 23 years old, an