With training camp around the corner, Bleacher Report tried to call their shot with an article predicting every NFL team’s biggest bust of the 2024 NFL season.

“Among the many players with high expectations, several will inevitably fall short—and sometimes straight-up bust,” wrote David Kenyon in the introduction.

The premise is simple: Everyone is optimistic about their favorite team this time of year. But reality tells us that there will be many teams and players who never live up to the hype. It’s a bold angle to single out 32 different players as busts before the 2024 season even begins, but some players are inevitably going to be deserving of the label.

That said, I don’t believe Tennessee Titans quarterback Will Levis is one of those players. And yet, Levis was the “bust” picked out for the Titans in the article. In my eyes, that’s not a fair label to put on him given the situation he walked into as a rookie.

“I greatly respect the team’s effort to put a better supporting cast around Will Levis, who’s approaching his first year as the full-time starter. I’m simply not sold on him,” wrote Kenyon. “Inefficiency and general inconsistency plagued Levis both in college and during his debut season with the Titans, and bringing in Ridley and Tyler Boyd—while admirable—doesn’t solve Levis’ week-to-week differences.”

I can’t blame anyone who is not all the way sold on Levis at this point in time. For as many flashes of brilliance he had as a rookie, there were reasons for concern. While Levis only threw four interceptions in nine games started, but had many more “turnover worthy plays” that could have gone the other way.

Is that worthy of the bust label, though? Is that enough to say he has week-to-week differences that will continue to plague him? I don’t believe it is.

If you watched Will Levis play football in 2023 and followed along with the storylines inside the Titans’ locker room, you’d see all the qualities of a franchise quarterback that didn’t show up in a box score. Levis commands a lot of respect from his teammates. He’s an exceptional leader and brings an infections obsession with greatness into the locker room.

On the field, Levis is tough as nails. He was thrown into a horrible situation as a rookie with one of the league’s worst offensive lines, only one reliable weapon, and a one-dimensional running game.

Kenyon points to inefficiency as a reason Levis is due to bust in 2024, and while Levis’ completion percentage is very uninspiring, concerns about his accuracy can be debunked by advanced metrics.

According to SharpFootballAnalysis.com, 21 percent of Levis’ incompletions in 2023 were due to receiver error. That was tied for the second highest total in the league. Furthermore, Sharp’s data also calculated the quarterbacks who threw the most incompletions due to “inaccurate passes.” Levis came in at an impressively low 27.4 percent, which was the 9th best among 41 qualified QBs.

The guy wasn’t inaccurate or inefficient, he was just trying to make plays without a lot of help around him. Hence why Tennessee acquired players like Calvin Ridley and Tyler Boyd this offseason while overhauling the offensive line. Kenyon wrote that “bringing in Ridley and Tyler Boyd—while admirable—doesn’t solve Levis’ week-to-week differences.” But the data suggests that it actually should.

I very simply don’t think people watched enough Will Levis in 2023 if they’re writing him off before 2024. This is a prime example of that. But I’d put my money on Levis proving this article to be wrong.