Looking at Titans inactives for indications
Looking at Titans inactives for indications
Total | Player | 17 | 16 | 15 | 14 | Bye | 12 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
5 | Wright | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||
2 | McCourty | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||
10 | Riley | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
3 | Bass | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
14 | Tretola | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
13 | Amaro | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
3 | Blackson | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
2 | Kline | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||
3 | Sims | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
1 | Tanney | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
6 | Wallace | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
1 | Morgan | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
6 | A. Johnson | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
1 | Walker | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
2 | Searcy | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||
5 | Riggs | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||
2 | Palmer | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||
5 | Douglas | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||
3 | Al Woods | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
7 | McBride | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
4 | Fluellen | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||
3 | Dodd | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
1 | Cox | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
2 | R. Johnson | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||
2 | Spain | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||
1 | D Smith | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
1 | Stafford | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
1 | Supernaw | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
1 | Staples | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
1 | Casey | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
1 | Spence | 1 |
Some of these players were injured and out temporarily. Jurrell Casey, Daimion Stafford, Quinton Spain, Phillip Supernaw, DaNorris Searcy, Sean Spence, Rashad Johnson, Derrick Morgan, and Delanie Walker.
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Kendall Wright was injured to start and close the season. He has said his goodbyes, so he won’t be returning.
Jason McCourty was injured late in the season, but also wasn’t playing well. He is due to make $7 million dollars in 2017. If the Titans release him, there is no cap hit. Many have stated the likelihood of this happening.
It is not uncommon for a third quarterback, Alex Tanney, to be inactive.
Let’s remove all of these players and display a new chart.
10 | Riley | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
3 | Bass | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
14 | Tretola | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
13 | Amaro | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
3 | Blackson | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
2 | Kline | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||
3 | Sims | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
6 | Wallace | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
6 | A. Johnson | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
5 | Riggs | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||
2 | Palmer | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||
5 | Douglas | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||
3 | Al Woods | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
7 | McBride | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
4 | Fluellen | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||
3 | Dodd | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
1 | Cox | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
1 | D Smith | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
1 | Staples | 1 |
(Note headers are gone, one week is a bye)
Sebastian Tretola was the Titans backup reserve guard. Brian Schwenke was the reserve guard. He was only active twice. He was depth not needed. Since he was a rookie, it’s possible he was on the roster to develop.
Jace Amaro was only active for three games. Once he was active to replace Delanie Walker as the team’s primary pass-catching tight end. Reportedly, Amaro is not a good blocker. The inactives bear this out some. It doesn’t seem (despite his athleticism) that Coach Mike Mularkey felt that Amaro being on the field was what’s best for the Titans.
Curtis Riley was “the last safety” on the Titans depth chart. He is a converted cornerback. He was kept on the roster with the notion that he could be useful as depth. A fine theory, but in reality, he wasn’t. He was inactive 10 times.
Tre McBride finished his second year with the Titans. He still has no catches. Last summer, reports were favorable during training camp, but he was inactive seven weeks and…had no catches. He did make a couple plays on special teams late in the season.
Aaron Wallace was inactive early in the season and active late in the season. The rookie seemed to improve and was a key player late in the year. He filled in nicely for an injured Sean Spence.
Austin Johnson was inactive for six of the first nine weeks. He was beaten out (depth chart) by undrafted free agent Antwaun Woods during the summer. Johnson was a second round pick though. Johnson was kept while Woods would wind up on the practice squad. Woods was activated and played very well in week 17. Faith in Johnson developing seemed to work out. As the season wore on, he was active for the second half of the season.
Cody Riggs was released. His five inactives showed a low-level on the “pecking order” at cornerback and ultimately led to his release.
Harry Douglas was inactive five games in the first half of the season. He was active for every game during the second half of the season. A confidence in the veteran seemed to develop.
David Fluellen is widely known as a high-motor, high-effort guy. The running back was promoted to the active roster late in the season. There were no indications that he would play. The Titans fourth running back could have been promoted to protect him from other teams grabbing him off the Titans practice squad. He could have been promoted because Mularkey wanted to see how he’d do with the first team in practice. Derrick Henry and DeMarco Murray were “banged up” late in the year. He could have been promoted to fill a practice role, while those two rested. The coaching staff seems to have displayed some (small) confidence in him.
Kevin Dodd began his only year with the Titans injured. His foot injury would linger all season long. At one point, Coach Mularkey questioned his practice habits. Next, he was inactive. A few weeks later, he was placed on injured reserve. This is not a favorable indication. Dodd was a college defensive end that converted to outside linebacker. Much of his time in 2016, however, was spent with his hand in the dirt. There are issues here that could possibly work themselves out by the player returning to the team healthy. While his evaluation would probably be poor, its difficult to evaluate an injured player.
Al Woods was inactive while young players played. This is not a good sign for a veteran.
LeShaun Sims was inactive early. He finished the season as a starter and played fairly well. It seems he just needed “some seasoning” on the sideline before “making a splash” in the NFL.
Angelo Blackson was inactive for three of the last five games. That’s not a good sign for a second-year player.
David Bass sitting the final three weeks, while Dodd was on injured reserve, is not a good sign.
Josh Kline spent two weeks inactive as he learned the Titans offense. The waiver wire pickup from the Patriots replaced Chance Warmack as the Titans starter.
Nate Palmer was a special teams linebacker and backup linebacker. His two inactives appear to just be a depth issue where the coach felt a numbers crunch.
Justin Staples was a special teams linebacker previously with the Titans. He returned to the team late in 2016. He is “in a similar boat” to Palmer. Without pushing the starters, his role can leave him out of the games due to a numbers crunch.
Perrish Cox was inactive just before his release.
D’Journ Smith never played a game for the Titans and was a curious late season ‘add.’
A few of these players just needed to “get their feet wet” and played well late in the season.
The rest of the players
Some of them are not under contract. All of the rest of the players could be released in 2017. Yes, every single one. Something to “swallow” is when we witness a coach’s inactive list. He decided that a player being on the inactive ist was better for the team than the player being on the field. That’s brutal reality right there.
This does not mean that they will be cut. It simply means they are “on the fence” for 2017. Players need to earn their reps in the NFL. If the inactives are motivated to “get after it” this coming offseason, then that’s great.
The free agents on this list are not likely to be asked back to the team. They could, but,…again, the coach felt the team was better off with them being inactive.
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