NFL Power Ranking: Breaking down the Tennessee Titans offense
By Will Lomas
With the 2015 NFL Draft coming up, teams are hard at working putting the finishing touches on areas of need on their teams. The Tennessee Titans are no different and they have a lot of work to do. With NFL free agency mostly over, it is time to take a look at what the Tennessee Titans have on their roster.
Today, I am taking a look at every offensive player on the roster and ranking them from top to bottom. This should help identify where the Tennessee Titans need help and where they have plenty of talent.
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Here is my power ranking of the Tennessee Titans offense as it stands today.
1. Delanie Walker TE
2. Kendall Wright WR
3. Taylor Lewan LT
4. Chance Warmack RG
5. Harry Douglas WR
6. Dexter McCluster WR/RB/PR
7. Andy Levitre LG
8. Bishop Sankey RB
9. Zach Mettenberger QB
10. Justin Hunter WR
11. Taylor Thompson TE
12. Byron Stingily OT
13. Craig Stevens TE
14. Brian Schwenke C
15. Lache Seastrunk RB
16. Charlie Whitehurst QB
17. Anthony Fasano TE
18. Clyde Gates WR
19. Antonio Andrews RB/FB
20. Shonn Greene RB
21. Gabe Ikard C
22. Rico Richardson WR
23. Dorin Dickerson FB
24. Josh Stewart WR
25. Justin McCray OL
26. Will Poehls OL
27. Alex Tanney QB
28. Jacoby Ford WR
29. Brett Brackett TE
30. Terren Jones OL
31. Jamon Meredith OL
Before we start:
Obviously once I got past 14, there was a lot of guess work going on by me in these power rankings. I had to factor in grades from Pro Football Focus as well potential to play in the future, and even their performances in preseason games or games at the college level.
This is not a science, and in about one month there will be some heavy shuffling as the Tennessee Titans draft some offensive players and potentially bring in good offensive linemen like Joe Barksdale and Stefen Wisniewski.
Having said all that, these rankings reflect the order in which you can objectively rank the Tennessee Titans offensive roster from top to bottom. If there is any player I missed let me know, but I used the fine folks at Ourlads who usually have the most up to date depth charts of anyone.
Glaring issues:
The biggest issue for the Tennessee Titans on paper is how devoid of blue-chip players this team is at the top. Obviously we knew that going in, but only about four of these players are guaranteed starters on every other team around the league.
Another issue is how far down the list the Tennessee Titans starting quarterback, Zach Mettenberger is. Having your starting quarterback fall out of your top five offensive player is never a good thing even if you have Pro-Bowlers ahead of him (see Dalton, Andy).
Biggest benefits:
Before doing this I really didn’t see how strong the Tennessee Titans were at tight end and running back. Obviously they are stronger at tight end, but at running back they have three budding young players that could all make a push to be the starter in camp.
Also, the Tennessee Titans offensive line is better on paper than I thought. While Andy Levitre is not worth his contract, he really jumped out to me as an average/above average player when I went back and watched some games to prep for this. With a new center and right tackle this team could be very stout up front.