Chris Johnson: Superstar Running Back Reaches Well-Deserved Deal with Titans

This summer's biggest holdout is officially over.

The Tennessee Titans and superstar running back Chris Johnson have finally agreed to terms 10 days before the season kicks off.

According to Jim Wyatt of The Tennessean:

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BREAKING: TItans agreed to 4-yr 53.5 million deal with Chris Johnson. 30 guaranteed

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The deal gives Johnson approximately $13 million this year and $31 million over the remaining three years.

The 25, soon-to-be 26-year-old running back has missed all of training camp in an effort to get a new deal.

Johnson has averaged a whopping 354 touches per season in the first three years of his career. No other running back in the league tops that.

The goal of his holdout wasn't just to earn top running back money, but top playmaker money overall. Looking at his numbers and the Titans' offense without him, it is terribly hard to argue against him.

Both sides made out extremely well in this deal.

Johnson has the majority of the money he wants and the Titans, wisely, worked their way down to a four-year deal.

The running back knows that his team isn't the Green Bay Packers, New England Patriots or Pittsburgh Steelers. The talent level on the Titans simply isn't playoff caliber without superhero-like performances from Johnson. If the Titans want to win, it has to be with him. He, like the Titans, knows his career isn't guaranteed for 13 years in the NFL.

In four years' time, Johnson will be 30-years old. The evil age for running backs in the NFL just happens to be ... 30-years old.

Add in the fact that Johnson is on pace to be one of heaviest-used backs in all of football again this year (and next year and the year after that) , one can't argue that Titans also made out extremely well.

There is no telling when Johnson's speed will deteriorate or if his body can handle the load for the long haul.

The last running back to be so productive over a seven-to-ten year span was LaDainian Tomlinson, one of the best running backs to ever play football.

Both Johnson and Minnesota Vikings running back, Adrian Peterson, are the two best possibilities of putting up numbers anything close to that of the former San Diego Charger and future Hall of Famer.

With a rookie quarterback set to take over some point in the next two seasons, Johnson, and the Titans, knew a deal had to be made to get things going in the right direction immediately.

Finally, we can stop talking about money and get back to football.