Three Reasons Mariota Will Save the Tennessee Titans

Jordan Ingram FishWrap, FishWrap Archive

There’s a new sheriff or two in Nashville. Along with Tennessee Titans’ second-year head coach Ken Whisenhunt, former Oregon Ducks quarterback Marcus Mariota has joined a freshly assembled Titans’ posse, and is already regarded as THE guy in Tennessee. The NFL franchise that once boasted the careers of Earl Campbell, Warren Moon and Steve McNair, capitalized big time by swooping up the Heisman Trophy-winner at No. 2 in the first …

3 Teams primed to land Mariota on Draft Day

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Tennessee Titans The first team on this list is most likely place that Mariota will go on draft day. With their starting quarterback from a year ago retiring from the NFL and with an unproven guy like Zach Mettenberger as the only quarterback on the roster the team is in need of an improvement at the position and Mariota would be …

Ken Whisenhunt Says Mariota Would Start for the Titans

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Ken Whisenhunt, the coach of the Tennessee Titans, believes Marcus Mariota would unquestionably be the Day 1 starter for his team. In an article by Jim Corbett of USA TODAY, Whisenhunt said, ”If we pick him at No. 2, you definitely think he can be the Day 1 starter.” Whisenhunt went on to say that, “In watching him at his workout with …