Tennessee Titans: Need more edge pressure
Tennessee truly could become a juggernaut this season and beyond. On offense and defense, this team is loaded with top talent. However, there is one glaring issue, and it revolves around pass rushers not named Derrick Morgan and Brian Orakpo.
Morgan and Orakpo combined to accumulate 19.5 sacks. That’s half of Tennessee’s production from 2016. And the nine Morgan registered was his career high. Previously, he’d never gotten more than 6.5 sacks in a season. So was the boost last year a sign of things to come or simply an aberration? If he regresses back to the mean, then Tennessee’s pass defense will struggle.
Aside from Morgan and Orakpo, the next-best pass rusher for the Titans (Jurrell Casey) last year had five sacks. The next-best after him tallied just three.
So if Tennessee really is going to challenge the best in the AFC, it will need to figure out a way to get more pass-rushing production off the edge.