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Tennessee Titans offensive predictions: Who are the starters?

By Will Lomas

NASHVILLE, TN - AUGUST 17: Marcus Mariota #8 of the Tennessee Titans warms up before a week two preseason game against the New England Patriots at Nissan Stadium on August 17, 2019 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Wesley Hitt/Getty Images)
NASHVILLE, TN - AUGUST 17: Marcus Mariota #8 of the Tennessee Titans warms up before a week two preseason game against the New England Patriots at Nissan Stadium on August 17, 2019 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Wesley Hitt/Getty Images) /
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Tennessee Titans wide receiver, Corey Davis.
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Wide Receiver (3)

WR1: Corey Davis

-The 5th pick in the 2017 NFL Draft was judged too quickly when so many were ready to move on after an injury in year one. Since then, Davis has been a model of consistency and has looked like the best (boundary) receiver on the team by a wide margin.

His power and effortless ability to win in the intermediate area will lead to a lot of 15-25 yard gains through the air this year, and hopefully he can break a few longer ones thanks to his toughness and the spacing of the new offense.

WR2: A.J. Brown

-I was ready to pencil Tajae Sharpe here two weeks ago. However, the player having a great camp quietly faded and has zero catches or targets in two preseason games.

At the same time, Brown has gotten healthy and was almost immediately plugged into the offense on the boundary. While he didn’t have a catch in the game vs the Patriots, he showed the veteran savvy to run downfield on a scramble and then force DPI to set up the opening TD to Delanie Walker.

Slot WR: Adam Humphries

-It is so exciting that the Titans could have good offensive performances four weeks in a row and never have the same leading receiver.

Sometimes the gameplan will call for play action chunk plays, in which case Corey Davis will be the guy. Other times, defenses will bracket cover Davis to force the Titans to throw it to the other boundary, which means A.J. Brown just has to make one guy miss and he is off to the races. There will surely be times where Marcus Mariota takes what the defense gives him and targets Delanie Walker heavily.

However, the truly new wrinkle in this offense is that when all those options are taken away and the defense decides that their best coverage safety or linebacker will have to deal with Walker, then Adam Humphries will go wild.

Truly fun to watch in the slot, Humphries seems to get open at will with his quickness and even when he isn’t open he adjusts well to passes and wins contested catches much better than someone his size should.

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