PLAYERS:
Kendall Wright,
Kenny Britt,
Donnie Avery,
Daniel Graham,
Marc Mariani,
Quinn Johnson,
Michael Preston,
Jamie Harper,
Darius Reynaud,
Chris Johnson,
Javon Ringer,
Lavelle Hawkins,
Craig Stevens,
Nate Washington,
Damian Williams,
Jared Cook
TEAMS: Tennessee Titans, New York Jets
TEAMS: Tennessee Titans, New York Jets
Selecting Kendall Wright in the first round of last April's NFL draft gave the Tennessee Titans a problem. It was probably a good problem to have, but it was still a problem. Between the acquisition of Wright and Kenny Britt's return from injury, the Titans were adding two potential very big pieces to the passing game at the same time they were returning almost every player who'd been thrown the ball in 2011. How would the Titans distribute playing time and targets in 2012, when they weren't suddenly going to throw the ball a lot more?
The rest of the time until the 2012 season began would see the competition for targets lessen a little bit, but only a little bit. Added to the pre-draft departure of Donnie Avery to the Colts were Daniel Graham's release and Marc Mariani going on injured reserve. Still, those were fundamentally irrelevant, as they represented all of 31 of the Titans' 606 total targets in 2011.
I took a stab at answering the problem no...
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