Tennessee Titans: 5 players to watch at the NFL Combine
By Brady Akins
The NFL Scouting Combine will give the Titans a chance to look at the future faces of the league, and possibly the franchise. Here are five players that could end up in the two-toned blue by next season.
With the Super Bowl in the rear view mirror marking the end of Tennessee Titans football for seven long months, it’s time to turn our attention to the offseason, and more specifically, the draft process.
The yearly NFL Scouting Combine gives coaches and general managers a chance to measure the skills, strength, and athleticism of the incoming class of college athletes to help them decide on a player’s schematic fit with their team. For fans, it gives us the chance to make sweeping overreactions to a player’s bench press reps or 40-yard dash time.
Sarcasm aside, the Combine can be an exciting yearly event for those invested in the sport enough to follow it. A good performance from a player at the combine can create believers out of teams and fans that hadn’t noticed them before, cast doubt over highly-touted college athletes that underperform, or reaffirm the belief that a player has star potential at the NFL level.
The Titans franchise has been no stranger in their history to drafting players with strong combine performances.
Arguably one of the best running backs in Titans history, Chris Johnson, found his way into the two-toned blue after a record-breaking 40-yard dash time of 4.24 seconds. Marcus Mariota had one of the best combines for a quarterback in recent history, and despite no longer being “the guy” in Nashville, he helped turn the franchise into a playoff contender.
Tennessee has had success through the years in drafting strong combine performers, and they’ll be looking once again towards players to fall in love with. Despite a deep playoff run, there are still a few holes to fill on the roster that the Titans will look to address this offseason, starting with the Scouting Combine.