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Monday 16 March 2020
Titans agree to four-year extension

with QB Ryan Tannehill

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — bargaining agreement. a career-best 117.5 passer
The Tennessee Titans are "Tennessee let's run it back," rating, the fourth highest in
keeping the quarterback Tannehill wrote on Twitter. NFL history and a franchise
that led them within a vic- After being traded by best.
tory of the Super Bowl, Miami to Tennessee last Tannehill threw for 2,742
agreeing to a four-year, March, Tannehill went 9-4 yards with 22 touchdowns
$118 million extension with overall as a starter, 7-3 over and six interceptions dur-
Ryan Tannehill. the final 10 games of the ing the regular season. His
The Titans announced the regular season after the 9.6 yards per attempt also
deal Sunday, hours after Titans benched Marcus led the league as another
the NFL Players Association Mariota in mid-October. team record. He also set a
approved a new collective Tannehill led the NFL with team mark for completion
Associated Press percentage, completing
70.3% of his passes for third
overall in the NFL. He also
ran for 185 yards with four
TDs on 43 carries.
He helped lead the Titans
to their first AFC champi-
onship appearance in 17
years as the No. 6 seed with
road wins at New England
and Baltimore. They lost 35-
24 at Kansas City one win
short of the Super Bowl.
Tannehill earned his first Pro
Bowl nod and was The As-
sociated Press NFL Come-
back Player of the Year.
This extension now allows
the Titans to either fran-
chise tag NFL rushing lead-
er Derrick Henry or sign him
to an extension.
Henry led the league with
1,540 yards on 303 carries
and became the first in
the NFL to run for at least
180 yards in three straight
games over the regu-
lar season or postseason.
Henry had seven 100-yard
games over his final nine
games, and he ranks third
in NFL history averaging 126
yards rushing for his career
in the playoffs.
The Titans cleared up more
salary cap space by waiv-
ing linebacker Cameron
Wake and running back
Dion Lewis on Thursday
before waiving three-time
Pro Bowl tight end Delanie
Walker and kicker Ryan
Succop on Friday. Spotrac.
com projected the Titans
with having more than $63
million in salary cap space
after those moves.
Keeping Tannehill certainly
helps their prospects. But
the Titans still have right
tackle Jack Conklin and
cornerback Logan Ryan
among the handful of
players hitting free agency
when the new league year
begins, currently sched-
uled for Wednesday. q