Titans trade Correa to Jaguars.
The Tennessee Titans announced that Kamalei Correa asked for a trade and then traded him to the Jacksonville Jaguars all in a five-hour span.
This isn’t a surprise move for the Titans other than the fact that this is Jon Robinson’s first trade inside the division and that it seems strange for the Jaguars to be trading away picks or players given their current trajectory.
Correa was upset that he wasn’t getting playing time in Tennessee after the team signed Jadeveon Clowney and Vic Beasley in the offseason, and his time was only going to get reduced more and more as the season went on.
That really isn’t any fault of Correa’s, but the Titans have Derick Roberson coming back this week and he is probably the EDGE on the Titans roster who is the fastest off of the line of scrimmage.
Behind the top four, they felt good enough about Wyatt Ray (Harold Landry’s former bookend at Boston College) to move on from D’Andre Walker despite using a 5th round pick in the 2019 NFL Draft on him.
Like I said, this is a solid move that makes Jacksonville better, even if I don’t understand why a team like the Jaguars made the move right now.
What are the Jaguars getting in Correa?
Like someone who lied confidently on their resume, K’Lavon Chaisson is not good against the run no matter what he said when he came out in the draft.
The Jaguars looked like they were going to try to let him figure it out while supplementing him with some bigger bodies, however, it isn’t working like they hoped. Throw in some injuries at linebacker and EDGE and you can see why they made a move like this.
Luckily, Correa is a do-it-all type of defender who has experience lining up as a true EDGE in a three-man or four-man front, and he also played some off the ball linebacker in a classic 4-3 look at times in Baltimore.
Correa is coming off of his best year in 2019, and while the Titans let him test free agency, they were quick to bring him back once they didn’t instantly get Clowney.
For a team like the Jaguars who lack any sort of leadership or experience winning in their front seven, you can see why they might want someone like Correa in their locker room beyond what he can bring to the field.
I think his role in Jacksonville will be as an EDGE on 1st and 2nd down who moves out of the lineup to make room for Josh Allen and Chaisson on 3rd downs. That was his role last year with Roberson coming in to clean up pass rush situations while Correa did the dirty work.
What is next for the Titans?
Like I said earlier, it didn’t make sense for the Titans to come into the season with as many EDGEs as they brought to camp.
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I thought roster spots were going to come down to Harold Landry, Jadeveon Clowney, Vic Beasley, Derick Roberson, D’Andre Walker, Kamalei Correa, and Wyatt Ray basically in that order.
It never made sense to me that Tennessee gave up on Walker so early and I wasn’t sure that Correa was going to make the roster if Clowney was signed in May. However, the late addition of Clowney made everything murky.
Fast forward a month later and it makes sense that Correa would be ready to move on once Roberson was healthy because that likely pushes him to the “Sharif Finch” zone. That is a place where you are good enough to at least be a solid role player on most teams, but you aren’t getting playing time. (I’m not bitter, you are bitter).
After Correa asked for a trade, I assumed that he was just going to get released because the Titans lost all leverage they had. However, there must have been enough of a risk of Correa going somewhere else that the Jaguars felt like they needed to give up something for him in return.
The question now is, did the Titans get more from the Jaguars than they got from the Broncos after trading Jurrell Casey?