2010 Tennessee Titans Projected Defensive Depth Chart Without K. Bulluck

Training camp is just a few weeks away from going in full swing, and we're embarking on the “dead time” between the draft and longing absense of the regular season.

It's now this juncture to check in with team-by-team depth charts in the AFC South division.

It's no secret that the Titans aren’t likely to re-sign the sensational aging veteran outside linebacker Keith Bulluck, as he’s still on the free market.

With this in mind, it’s time to assess Tennessee’s defensive depth chart as it currently stands to begin the 2010 season.

DT: Tony Brown, Haye-Jones-Marks Rotation

Tony Brown was a very late bloomer, but he has become a full-blooded force in the middle of the Titans’ defensive line the last three seasons.

Adjacent Brown will be a presumable flux system.

Among these players are Jovan Haye, who has dealt with run-of-the-mill production the last two years, and second-year pros Sen’Derrick Marks and Jason Jones.

DE: Derrick Morgan, William Hayes

Lining across William Hayes will be rookie Derrick Morgan, who has superb skills set with great toughness, elusiveness, and aggression.

Morgan has a very promising future ahead, and I only suspect him to have an instant beneficial impact.

Behind Hayes and Morgan lies great depth that’s practically bursting at the seems.

While Jason Babin and Jacob Ford didn’t start a single game last season, they still piled up an amalgamated 38 tackles and eight sacks in 2009.

Tennessee’s depth along the defensive front consists of youthful situational-type players, who excel in and a rotation, and this flux system should occur throughout the the season.

OLB: Gerald McRath, Colin Allred

With the sensational Keith Bulluck likely not to return, an open competition is apt to happen on the outside.

The battle will be between third-round-pick Rennie Curran, aging veteran David Thorton, and the youthful second-year Gerald McRath and fourth-year Colin Allred.

Gerald McRath is the work-in replacement for David Thorton, and should be the starter.

This contrives Bulluck’s proxy to likely become Colin Allred, barring Rennie Curran to show the same potential as DeAndre Levy in ’09, or a free agent signing.

MLB: Will Weatherspoon

Ninth-year veteran Will Weatherspoon was flown out of Philly in the offseason and was picked up by Tennessee in an effort to salvage the linebacker corps.

The 6’1”, 239 lb versatile linebacker’s presumable best days are behind him.

But he's seen over 700 tackles with 20 sacks, 9 interceptions, and 8 forced fumbles in his NFL career.

Albeit he’s witnessed a decline in the amount of playing time in recent years, he’ll become a very advantageous asset in the middle of the Titans’ defense.

CB: Cortland Finnegan, Quintuple

Across from Cortland Finnegan, a bundle of corners received their fair share of starts in ’09.

Among these players, rookies Ryan Mouton and Jason McCourty, who mounted 53 tackles and one forced fumble in five starts.

Also receiving five integrated starts, Roderick Hood and Vincent Fuller both made a valid impact, collecting 50 tackles with six interceptions and one sack.

This was due in part to three games that Cortland Finnegan missed, but despite the fact of these great additional corners, along with the newly acquired Tye Hill, Finnegan is expected to start every game this upcoming season.

Aligning across Finnegan, who has accumulated over 60 tackles and five interceptions for the past two consecutive seasons, will likely be a random continuing rotation that seems to outrival.

SS: Chris Hope

At age 29, the latter portion of Chris Hope’s career could be shortly on the horizon.

This will cause Hope to become a valuable instructor to rookie and rode scholar Myron Rolle, who was also a former Seminole.

However, Hope is still a hard-hitter, quick thinker, and indispensable starter, as he totaled 81 tackles with three interceptions last season.

FS: Michael Griffin, VOTP

Michael Griffin is a versatile, hard-hitting truck with superb instincts.

He’s amassed over 200 tackles, four forced fumbles and 11 interceptions in his three-year NFL career, and he’s hungry for more.

Verse of this Piece

“Happy is the person who finds wisdom, the one who gets understanding. Wisdom is worth more than silver; it brings more profit than gold. Wisdom is more precious than rubies; nothing you could want is equal to it. With her right hand wisdom offers you a long life, and with her left hand she gives you riches and honor.” —Proverbs 3:13-16