NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Elic Ayomanor looks like he can be a nice combination of size and speed as a fourth-round wide receiver.
What he is not, so far, is a master of the ladder that the Titans' wideouts routinely weave through in footwork drills when they work by themselves early in practice.
He is typically the slowest to get through the ladder and the most likely to get tangled up in it.
“Yeah, the ladder is definitely not the strongest part of my game,” he said, laughing. “It’s something that I don’t really do that often. I kind of just run routes. I think routes are the string suit of my game. The vets always give me shit about it, but I tell them, ‘Hey, you know I can run route, you’ve seen me out there.’
Brian Callahan kind of laughed along with Ayomanor regarding his ladder deficiency.
Elic Ayomanor doesn’t fare well at ladder drills. He explains at https://t.co/WpzhO2e9uH. #Titans pic.twitter.com/O40fLZNW8w
— Paul Kuharsky (@PaulKuharskyNFL) July 29, 2025
“Some guys have got really great feet in the ladder, it’s a drill and it’s something you can get better at,” he said. “You can improve your ladder ability. But it doesn’t show up. He can still get out of the top of his routes. He can still make a cut at the top of the break. It doesn’t show up. Some guys, bigger guys sometimes have a tougher time with the ladder, 
the longer legs. But I don’t see it translating to his route running.
How much better has he gotten at it since he joined the Titans in the spring?
“Marginally,” Ayomanor admitted. “I don’t think it’s something that necessarily dictates whether or not you’re a good football player. To me, the thing that I’ve got to get better at is being a good football player. I’ll go back and watch the tape and see what I did at practice, and know I need to get better in those areas.
As for straightening and reshaping the ladder after he gets his feet caught, he said that’s for the guys behind him.