Tennessee Titans select Kalel Mullings in 6th round of 2025 NFL Draft

The professional football dreams of Kalel Mullings have come true. The Tennessee Titans selected the former Michigan running back with the No. 188 overall pick in the sixth of the 2025 NFL Draft.

Mullings spent his entire collegiate career with the Wolverines. Over the course of that time, he accumulated 235 carries, 1,201 rushing yards and 16 touchdowns. He didn’t factor much into the receiving game.

Additionally, Mullings played high school football at Milton Academy (Boston, MA), where he was a four-star prospect. He was the No. 133 overall recruit in the 2020 cycle, according to the On3 Industry Ranking, a weighted average that utilizes all four major recruiting media companies.

Using the lessons learned from his time at Michigan, Kalel Mullings will be hoping to make a name for himself at the NFL level. We’ll see how he performs when the pressure is on moving forward.

More on Kalel Mullings, 2025 NFL Draft

Ahead of the 2025 NFL Draft, Lance Zierlein of NFL.com provided some analysis on a host of prospects. One of those included Kalel Mullings, as he compared the former Michigan running back to Roschon Johnson of the Chicago Bears.

“Mullings is a big back and inside runner who plays the game with a healthy level of disdain for the defense, using bend, balance and leg drive to move piles and break tackles,” Zierlein wrote. “He runs with average vision and feel for the blocking scheme and lacks open-field elusiveness. He has good foot agility for his size and might have more up his sleeve in a more diverse rushing scheme.

“Mullings can handle some protection duties and should be an immediate option on special teams. He offers Day 3 value as a downhill back for teams looking to add size and toughness to their room.”

Among Mullings strengths are outstanding size and musculation for a runner, the agility and bend to keep improving at his craft and rarely allowing his feet to become lethargic during the run. On the other hand, Zierlein proclaimed his weaknesses include average vision and feel for run-lane development, power but lacking creativity to elude in space and not having the acceleration to widen the defense.