One Tennessee Titans Rookie Who Could Win a Starting Job Out of Camp
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0 Share Newsweek is a Trust Project member See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. With teams on their month-long break from mid-June to mid-July in between minicamp and training camp, we’ve reached the deadest point of the NFL offseason.
But fortunately for football fans, there’s just three weeks left before training camp kicks off, followed by the preseason and regular season, which starts the week of Sept. 7.
Until then, we’ve done training camp previews and analyzed the top position battle to watch for all 32 teams. Next up in our offseason series is looking at one rookie from every team who could win a starting job in training camp this season, and today we’re looking at the Tennessee Titans .
The Titans didn’t spend the fourth overall pick on Carnell Tate to keep him on the bench. With Wan’dale Robinson, Calvin Ridley, and Elic Ayomanor also in the fold, the WR competition will be fierce in camp.
However, Keldric Faulk is the player to keep an eye on.
Tennessee’s pass-rush wasn’t anything to boast about last year. If not for defensive tackle Jeffery Simmons’ 11 sacks, the Titans would’ve went from the 12th-most sacks in the league to the sixth-fewest.
The Titans’ second-leading sacker Jihad Ward is a free agent, plus Dre’Mont Jones, Arden Key, and T’Vondre Sweat, who ranked third, fifth, and sixth, respectively, in sacks last year, are all on new teams.
Former New York Jets first-round defensive end Jermaine Johnson will help bolster the pass-rush, but Faulk is the wild card.
Though he had a down year last season (30 pressures, 27 hurries, five tackles for loss, two sacks), Faulk’s impressive sophomore season is what landed him on the radar of NFL scouts (45 pressures, 31 hurries, 11 tackles for loss, seven sacks, one forced fumble, one fumble recovery).
Though he’s a little green, and young (he won’t turn 21 until September), Faulk has massive upside and could do some serious damage coming off the edge with Simmons coming up the middle.
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