The Titans Have a Superstar in Carnell Tate

The Titans Have a Superstar in Carnell Tate

Carnell Tate looks like a number one receiver in the making, and Week 4 showed it. The Titans rookie led the team with nine catches for 145 yards, the most by any Titan since A.J. Brown in 2021. He was targeted 12 times and caught nine of them, averaging about 16 yards per catch, with a pair of 33-yard grabs and a 22-yarder, the three longest of his rookie year. He also gave Tennessee a second-half spark, including a 33-yard catch that converted a fourth-and-11 during a fourth-quarter scoring drive. His production was balanced, too: 74 yards on five catches in the first half and 71 yards on four in the second. That’s a receiver who wins early, late, and in tight windows, in an offense that wasn’t helping him much.

That’s also why he belongs in the Offensive Rookie of the Year conversation. The numbers already put him in rare company: his 145 yards are the most by a Titans rookie since A.J. Brown in 2019, and he’s the first Titans rookie with nine or more catches in a game since Kendall Wright in 2012. He now has 22 catches for 268 yards through four games, and his Week 4 yardage more than doubled what he’d produced in his first three combined, so he’s trending up fast. Tennessee is 0-4, which means he’ll keep getting heavy volume as the focal point of the passing game, and a rookie who commands that many targets from a high-profile quarterback has a real path to a big second half and a touchdown total that catches up to his yardage.