The Titans are consistently awful from a CF perspective going back to the Mike Vrabel reign. Just 3 White starters last year and 13 total. 4 and 14 in ’23, 4 and 15 in ’22, and on and on it goes. This year is the worst group yet with 3 White starters and just 12 total on the roster.
What makes this team even more unlikeable is that there’s literally no Whites to root for, other than starting ILB Cody Barton, and though he’s a much maligned tackling machine who DWFs want to see out of the league, he’s pretty much unknown except to fantasy football aficianados.
On offense the two White starters are LG Peter Skoronski and RG Kevin Zeitler. Skoronski was a first round pick in 2023 but is a classic example of an All-American tackle being moved to guard in the NFL because his arms supposedly are too short to play tackle. The “short arms” lunacy being applied more and more in recent years and only to capable White tackles qualifies as one of the most absurd Caste System shibboleths yet to justify the unjustifiable.
Jackson Slater backs up Skoronski and Blake Hance backs up Zeitler. Corey Levin is the backup center.
Rookie tight end Gunnar Helm out of Texas is the second tight end and has a lot of promise but for now is stuck behind a WGA at the position.
Backup QB Brandon Allen completes the Titan’s small contingent of White offensive players. Will Levis is on year-long IR and it looks like he won’t get any more chances to start as first overall pick Cam Ward will get the obligatory super-long leash given to all black QBs taken early.
Barton bounces from team to team despite being one of the best tackling machines in the league. Sometimes very productive White linebackers gain some respect over time while others never do no matter how well they perform. Barton falls in the latter category.
Besides Barton starting at RILB, end James Lynch is the only other White player on defense. Lynch was beastly when he played for Baylor but has been unable to duplicate that success in the NFL.
Tennessee does have two White WRs on the practice squad in Mason Kinsey and undrafted rookie Xavier Restrepo. Kinsey has returned a few kicks in his four years with the organization and has a whopping four career catches, being another one of the many White receivers who will most likely never advance beyond the furthest fringes of the league. Restrepo certainly was draftable but wasn’t. He has the potential to be a fine starting slot receiver for a team, but being a UFA and playing for a bottom feeding organization like this doesn’t make his odds look very good at the present time. The fact that any other team can sign him away from Tennessee’s practice squad but hasn’t enforces that belief.
The Titans have but 12 White players but it seems like the number is even less, a crap team that had a few good years under Vrabel but then went sharply downhill and are now firmly encamped among the dredges of the league.
LG: Peter Skoronski Jackson Slater
C: Corey Levin
RG: Kevin Zeitler Blake Hance
TE: Gunnar Helm
QB: Brandon Allen
DE: James Lynch
RILB: Cody Barton
P: Johnny Hekker
PK: Joey Slye
LS: Morgan Cox
Practice Squad: G Andrew Rupcich, QB Trevor Siemian (the well traveled veteran is now 33 years old), G Clay Webb, WR Mason Kinsey, WR Xavier Restrepo
IR: QB Will Levis
Number of White Starters: 3
Number of Whites on the 53: 12
Grade: F-
What makes this team even more unlikeable is that there’s literally no Whites to root for, other than starting ILB Cody Barton, and though he’s a much maligned tackling machine who DWFs want to see out of the league, he’s pretty much unknown except to fantasy football aficianados.
On offense the two White starters are LG Peter Skoronski and RG Kevin Zeitler. Skoronski was a first round pick in 2023 but is a classic example of an All-American tackle being moved to guard in the NFL because his arms supposedly are too short to play tackle. The “short arms” lunacy being applied more and more in recent years and only to capable White tackles qualifies as one of the most absurd Caste System shibboleths yet to justify the unjustifiable.
Jackson Slater backs up Skoronski and Blake Hance backs up Zeitler. Corey Levin is the backup center.
Rookie tight end Gunnar Helm out of Texas is the second tight end and has a lot of promise but for now is stuck behind a WGA at the position.
Backup QB Brandon Allen completes the Titan’s small contingent of White offensive players. Will Levis is on year-long IR and it looks like he won’t get any more chances to start as first overall pick Cam Ward will get the obligatory super-long leash given to all black QBs taken early.
Barton bounces from team to team despite being one of the best tackling machines in the league. Sometimes very productive White linebackers gain some respect over time while others never do no matter how well they perform. Barton falls in the latter category.
Besides Barton starting at RILB, end James Lynch is the only other White player on defense. Lynch was beastly when he played for Baylor but has been unable to duplicate that success in the NFL.
Tennessee does have two White WRs on the practice squad in Mason Kinsey and undrafted rookie Xavier Restrepo. Kinsey has returned a few kicks in his four years with the organization and has a whopping four career catches, being another one of the many White receivers who will most likely never advance beyond the furthest fringes of the league. Restrepo certainly was draftable but wasn’t. He has the potential to be a fine starting slot receiver for a team, but being a UFA and playing for a bottom feeding organization like this doesn’t make his odds look very good at the present time. The fact that any other team can sign him away from Tennessee’s practice squad but hasn’t enforces that belief.
The Titans have but 12 White players but it seems like the number is even less, a crap team that had a few good years under Vrabel but then went sharply downhill and are now firmly encamped among the dredges of the league.
LG: Peter Skoronski Jackson Slater
C: Corey Levin
RG: Kevin Zeitler Blake Hance
TE: Gunnar Helm
QB: Brandon Allen
DE: James Lynch
RILB: Cody Barton
P: Johnny Hekker
PK: Joey Slye
LS: Morgan Cox
Practice Squad: G Andrew Rupcich, QB Trevor Siemian (the well traveled veteran is now 33 years old), G Clay Webb, WR Mason Kinsey, WR Xavier Restrepo
IR: QB Will Levis
Number of White Starters: 3
Number of Whites on the 53: 12
Grade: F-
