There's no pastime quite like overreacting to what you see on the first day of training camp.

The Tennessee Titans took the practice field for the first time this preseason on Wednesday, continuing the offseason journey toward the first season of the Brian Callahan era. The Tennessean was on the field for every moment of practice, tracking the highs and lows of the day.

One practice does not a full offseason make. Plenty can change between now and the first preseason game on Aug. 10, let alone the season opener on Sept. 8. But that doesn't mean we can't overreact to a few early-developing trends.

Here are five overreactions from Wednesday's practice.

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Will Levis: King of the checkdowns?

It's no secret Will Levis can chuck a football awfully far. But what if maybe — just maybe — the secret to unlocking his talents as the Tennessee Titans' passer are keeping things tight to the line of scrimmage?

Levis threw virtually no passes farther than 10 yards downfield Wednesday, and this was by design. The first day of camp is about easing players back in, and that means avoiding any of the deep stuff that could cause a pulled hamstring. Things won't be like this forever, so the overreaction shouldn't be that the Titans are going to be the new kings of the dink-and-dunk.

The overreaction is . . . maybe they should be?

Levis was awesome in 7-on-7, completing seven of his eight attempts to six different targets. His one incompletion came on a dropped pass, although the throw was also low. He cooled off a little bit in 11-on-11 as the game sped up, but when he was in control of the short passing game, he seemed to really be in control.

Staying in rhythm with Tyler Boyd as a slot option and keeping tight ends Josh Whyle and Chig Okonkwo and running backs Tyjae Spears and Tony Pollard on speed dial is the jolt Levis needs to thrive as an NFL quarterback, and Wednesday he showed he has the chops to do so.

Jamal Adams will have a role, but it'll take time

Jamal Adams looked fine in his first practice with the Titans. It's hard to make too much of a judgment about his game specifically before the pads go on, but he did have one would-be sack in 11-on-11 drills, so that's nice.

It seems like the Titans are going to use Adams situationally, and maybe as more of a nickel presence than a safety. There's still time to get him going in the deep secondary, but based on one practice, it feels more likely that he's just as likely to work his way onto the field through sharing time with Roger McCreary as with Elijah Molden.

John Ojukwu is going to make this team

No one has earned a starting spot on the right side of the Titans' offensive line yet, but it's starting to feel safe to say second-year tackle John Ojukwu is well on his way to making the roster. After consistently receiving significant reps at right tackle during OTAs, he was back out with the first team Wednesday.

Sure, Nicholas Petit-Frere is still on the physically unable to perform list. But Ojukwu, the former undrafted free agent, is taking these reps ahead of more experienced players like Dillon Radunz and Jaelyn Duncan, as well as offseason additions Leroy Watson IV and Geron Christian Sr. It's time to take Ojukwu seriously in the competition and feel confident that a slot on the 53-man roster is his to lose.

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Cedric Gray needs time, and Jack Gibbens isn't relenting

Expectations are high for the Titans' fourth-round rookie linebacker, but let's temper them. Kenneth Murray II and Jack Gibbens aren't relenting as the starters in the middle of the defense, roles they held throughout OTAs and minicamp. Especially not Gibbens, who made a few nice plays Wednesday, including a pass breakup against Levis in a team period.

Don't write off Gray yet, but expecting the rookie from UNC to start by September may be a stretch.

Hey . . . wait . . . are those up-downs?

Remember up-downs? The punishment usually reserved for misbehaving Pop Warner players and high school conditioning tests? Well, Titans defensive coordinator Dennard Wilson had his whole defense do 20 of them as a warmup Wednesday.

That's cool, right? Well, not for the players doing the up-downs. From their perspective, this definitely stinks. But from the outside perspective, it's interesting to see how old-school Wilson is. It's easy to write off the Titans' transition from the Mike Vrabel era into the Callahan era as going from old-school to new-school.

But some of that classic football flair was evident from the start of practice, and it'll be no surprise if that attitude bleeds into the way the Titans show their aggression and passion on defense this fall.

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Nick Suss is the Titans beat writer for The Tennessean. Contact Nick at nsuss@gannett.com. Follow Nick on X, the platform formerly called Twitter, @nicksuss.

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