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Tennessee Titans

This is a committee. Carnell Tate holds 27.6% of the targets, and the 14 tracked pass-catchers project for 20 receptions and 232 receiving yards in week 7.

Full Tennessee Titans depth chart — every player who took a snap, ranked by how many.

Also on the Tennessee Titans: Cam Ward (quarterback), Joey Slye (kicker), Tennessee Titans D/ST (defense).

What this staff chooses

The Tennessee Titans run more than the situation calls for: pass rate over expectation -7.4%, 28th of 32, on 51 plays a game (31st). Raw pass rate is 58.1%, but that follows the scoreboard — a trailing team throws. PROE subtracts the league rate for the same down, distance and score, so what is left is the CHOICE.

Pass rate over expectation is the most repeatable offensive trait we measure: split the season into odd and even weeks and a team agrees with itself at 0.84. Most things a defense does sit near 0.32.

This seasonLeague rank
Pass rate over expectation-7.4%28th
Plays per game51.231st
Points per game14.031st

The line, and the front it faces

The offensive line has allowed pressure on 25.5% of dropbacks (24th) and opened 2.45 yards before contact a carry (15th). The defense pressures the quarterback on 24.6% of opposing dropbacks (20th).

This seasonLeague rank
Pressure allowed, per dropback25.5%24th
Yards before contact, per carry2.4515th
Pressure generated, per dropback24.6%20th

What this defense concedes

Of the passes thrown at the Tennessee Titans, 63% go to receivers, 22% to tight ends and 15% to backs. Opponents average 7.77 yards a target (23rd).

Read this half with more caution than the half above. How a defense DISTRIBUTES the targets it faces repeats moderately — 0.34 for backs, 0.23 for receivers, 0.09 for tight ends. How many YARDS it allows a tight end per target repeats at 0.02, which is indistinguishable from chance. "Weak against tight ends" is the least reproducible claim in this dataset and one of the most repeated.

63%22%15%ReceiversTight endsBacks

Team figures from 6 games this season. Ranks are among the 32 teams on the same measure.

Season by season

This staff is calling it much as it has: pass rate over expectation -7.4% this season against -5.4% across the previous 10 seasons.

Tennessee Titans: pass rate over expectation by season-7.5-5.0-2.50.020162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Over expectationseasonpercentage points over expected
Pass rate over expectation subtracts the league rate for the same down, distance and score, so it is what the STAFF chose rather than what the scoreboard forced. It repeats at 0.84 (Spearman-Brown), the most reliable offensive trait measured in this project.
Tennessee Titans: points scored and allowed by season01020304020162017201820192020202120222023202420252026ScoredAllowedseasonpoints per game
Regular-season averages. Points scored carries further year to year than points allowed, which is the same asymmetry that runs through everything here: offense reproduces, defense mostly does not.

Pass rate over expectation from 2016; points from the same seasons. Each season is that season's regular-season average.

Who owns the targets

Trailing target share, largest first. Target share reproduces at 0.92 between halves of a season, so this is a stable picture of the pecking order rather than a snapshot of one good game.

28%21%10%9%8%28%Carnell TateWan'Dale RobinsonTyjae SpearsElic AyomanorGunnar HelmEveryone else

Receivers

PlayerSnap shareTarget shareProj. catchesProj. rec yardsIf he sits
Carnell Tate WR181%27.6%4.560who benefits
Wan'Dale Robinson WR266%21.4%3.847who benefits
Elic Ayomanor WR360%9.2%1.825—
Calvin Ridley WR depth54%6.6%1.421—
Chimere Dike WR depth11%3.6%1.210—

Tight ends

PlayerSnap shareTarget shareProj. catchesProj. rec yardsIf he sits
Gunnar Helm TE277%7.9%1.721who benefits
Daniel Bellinger TE143%5.6%1.013who benefits
Kylen Granson TE35%2.9%0.18—
David Martin-Robinson TE depth7%1.3%0.10—

Backs

PlayerSnap shareTarget shareProj. catchesProj. rec yardsIf he sits
Tyjae Spears RB341%10.0%2.614—
Tony Pollard RB156%7.7%1.813who benefits
Julius Chestnut RB depth7%0.4%0.10—
Kalel Mullings RB depth2%0.0%0.40—
Nicholas Singleton RB212%0.0%0.30—

The ground game

Projected for 18 carries and 79 rushing yards, with Tony Pollard taking 85% of the work. Carries per game is the second most repeatable thing a player has — 0.97 between halves of a season — so a backfield split holds up far better than a touchdown rate does.

PlayerCarriesRush ydsYds/carryAnytime TD
Tony Pollard RB15.4644.1634%
Nicholas Singleton RB2.8155.375%
153Tony PollardNicholas Singleton

Whose role has changed since last season

Snap share this season against last, for anyone who has moved at least six points. This is the input the model leans on hardest early in a year, because snap share is already reliable at 0.84 after two games while receptions manage 0.66.

Tennessee Titans snap share changeGunnar Helm+24.153→77%Tony Pollard-6.362→56%Julius Chestnut-6.67→0%Daniel Bellinger-7.150→43%David Martin-Robinson-7.714→7%Kylen Granson-17.522→5%Elic Ayomanor-20.681→60%Wan'Dale Robinson-24.391→66%Chimere Dike-48.059→11%points of snap share

Ranked by trailing target share, tie-broken on snap share · concentration measured as a Herfindahl index over the tracked room · projections as-of-week with no lookahead