Corey Davis will keep having success once A.J. Brown returns for Titans
By Will Lomas
So what?
This offense is all about misdirection and taking advantage of the weakest parts of a defense, so if the Titans don’t like a matchup that A.J. Brown has (vs A.J. Bouye for example) and they like the physicality of Corey Davis vs the other team’s worst CB then he is going to get more targets regardless of whether or not they think he should be the WR1.
The core belief of this offense is that you:
1. Run the ball until the defense forces you to stop.
2. Attack the defense horizontally in the middle of the field which puts extra stress on the linebackers.
3. When the defense counters by bringing more bodies in the box to stop this, then you take shots deep to punish them.
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So far this year, the Titans have actually targetted Jonnu Smith and Adam Humphries more than anyone else with both players at 20 targets. Again, that points to #2 on that list of core beliefs, attacking the defense in the middle of the field.
The “so what” of all of this for Corey Davis, is that all of this is pointing to his workload staying steady or actually improving once A.J. Brown (and even Adam Humphries) are ready to play.
Running the ball will come in time, the middle of the field is being stressed (which includes Davis) and the deep targets should be coming sooner rather than later for Davis. All of these targets that travel 15 yards in the air should turn into shot plays 30+ yards down the field as teams struggle to stop the YAC threats (Brown/Jonnu Smith) and chain movers (Humphries/Anthony Firkser).
Corey Davis is on pace for an 80 catch, 1,100-yard season, and based on all of this, I think that could be underselling what he might do for this offense by the end of the year which is very exciting.