2012 Tennessee Titans offseason positional analysis: OLB

Next up on our tour around the Titans position by position as we head into the 2012 offseason is the outside linebacker spot.For several years, this was a spot to build around on the Titans defense, as Keith Bulluck was an anchor and a star, and David Thornton arrived in free agency to give the Titans perhaps the best pair of cover linebackers in the league. Then, alas, Bulluck and Thornton aged and got hurt, and it was time for the next wave at the position. 2010 ended up as sort of a transition year. There were new starters, but one clearly was going to be a short-term fill-in, and the other, well, the jury was out at the start of the year and was still out, but looked to be trending downward at the end of the year.In 2011, Jerry Gray arrived, and a new day dawned. The concept of what an outside linebacker was changed. No longer would the Titans look for two pursuit outside linebackers, space players like converted collegiate safety Bulluck. The Titans would still have one of tho...