Tennessee Titans DeAndre Hopkins INJURED, Treylon Burks MUST Step Up & Nicholas Petit-Frere is Back

Tennessee Titans wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins is injured I'll tell you how long he's expected to be out and why Titans fans should not panic on this bonus edition of the locked on Titans [Music] podcast you are locked on Titans your daily Tennessee Titans podcast part of the lockon podcast Network your team everyday welcome to the locked on Titans podcast I am your host Tyler Roland Titans fans got a bonus edition for you guys today we got DeAndre Hopkins injury news also the return of what should be a starting offensive lineman for the Tennessee Titans before I get into all of this bonus content for you guys do want to thank you for making locked on Titans your first listen each and every day remember Monday through Friday Tennessee Titans content all year round always for free make sure that you get subs subscribed stay subscribed it's your team every day here on the locked on Titans podcast once again I am your host Tyler Roland nearly 25 years as a Tennessee Titans fanatic a certified film junkie breaking down the x's and o's with you guys all year long I've covered the team for Sports Illustrated USA Today and I've been hosting the number one Tennessee Titans podcast in the world for five years running with all that being said let's dive into this DeAndre Hopkins injury news the report came from Paul PA karski that DeAndre Hopkins had a knee injury it looks like it's a knee sprain and he will be out 4- six weeks first and foremost it is not time to panic Titans fans I saw a lot of people freaking out online in my comment section all that everyone just collectively relax let me just say this we have been excited about this wide receiver group for quite some time during this off season because of the depth of the receiver group all right last year you had NWI DeAndre Hopkins and tayin Burks as your top three well this year you have DeAndre Hopkins Calvin Ridley and Tyler Boyd so now NWI and Trin Burks are backups or now they slide into a third wide receiver role look we were all excited about the depth and now the depth has to play out the odds of all three of the Titans starting wide receivers staying healthy for 177 games was low anyways the odds of that were very low so you had to know in the back of your mind eventually there would be some sort of injury at wide receiver now I understand that a lot of you are going to say well I was hoping it it would at least be during the season but this is even better this this is a positive outcome this is an optimistic outcome for the Titans to sustain an injury number one like I said the depth is there so the Titans have talent at wide receiver to deal with this absence and let's just get down to the timeline four to six weeks is the timeline well if you do the math four weeks from now it's still one week before the season starts DeAndre Hopkins could be out for four weeks and not miss a single regular season game even if it's the six weeks he's probably only going to miss one game maybe two games at maximum so this isn't some season altering devastating sky is falling Chicken Little situation do you want DeAndre Hopkins to be hurt of course not but again it is not time to panic there should be some level of optimism from the fan base right now because the Titans have the depth at wide receiver finally to withstand some of this and the injury should not keep DeAndre Hopkins out too far into the season it's not like he's gonna miss four games eight games 10 games we're talking about two games maybe three games at Max I mean at that would be past the timeline so the timeline isn't all that bad anyways like he's going to miss a bunch of time the Titans have the depth and let me go to this next Point DeAndre Hopkins out of all the wide receivers probably has the best chemistry with Will Levis already so even though Hopkins is Gonna Miss This preseason time and people are saying oh supposed to develop the chemistry I saw uh Dan orloski from ESN complaining about them not getting chemistry the chemistry was built last year did you see how good Deandre Hopkins and will Levis were together last year everybody seems to forget somebody called DeAndre Hopkins a bounce bounceback candidate do people seem to forget that he went for a thousand yards last year like what are we doing like so the timeline isn't that bad anyways the Titans have depth at wide receiver Hopkins and Levis already have chemistry and understand what they need to do together so I I just forgive me but I don't understand the outright Panic that I'm seeing from some folks I I obviously it's not a good thing but it's not a season killer or something like that it's far from that so I'm just here to preach patience preach optimism and the next thing that I'm going to preach is it's time for tayin Burks to step up this if you saw my short video I made while I was out on the golf course when the news broke on Thursday night can't even enjoy a nice peaceful round of golf okay uh but the big news outside of the DeAndre Hopkins info here is that it's time for tayin burs to step up okay I'll said it in the short video and I'm gonna say it again here we have a wide receiver who is a former first round pick in his athletic Prime who is healthy headed into season three who everyone has been hyping up all off season long all training camp along through the first 10 days all it's been is Trin bur's hype best shape of his life fully committed making plays that's all we're hearing so let's see it let's see it if this is actually different for tayin Burks then let's see it Burks is a big physical wide receiver who should be able to play the X position and fill in for DeAndre Hopkins so like again timeline isn't that bad Hopkins and Levis have chemistry and the Titans have depth and when I say depth I mean literally a first round wide receiver on the team as a backup they could slide into the lineup it'll be fine everything is going to be fine now that doesn't mean the Titans are going to 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got on Friday according to Terron Davenport from ESPN shout out TD my guy uh Nicholas p forer is back activated off the pup so Brian Callahan said earlier in the week that or I think it was Bill Callahan that said earlier in the week that the Titans expected to get mpf back on Friday and that's exactly what happened so that did go according to plan Remember Nicholas ptif for rare had the gambling suspension at the beginning of his second year after starting every game as a rookie or 16 out of 17 games as a rookie I do believe it is off the top of my head uh comes back plays a couple of games injures his shoulder upper body injury could have been like you know Peck shoulder bicep area specifics lose me sometimes on all the injuries that the Titans have had over the last three years crazy but anyway but we found out at the beginning of training camp that the reason Nicholas P forer missed most of the offseason workouts wasn't due to the upper body injury it was actually a knee scope that he had a little bit of a knee cleanup so good to hear the mpf is back and in my opinion he needs to immediately be the starting right tackle so I know that there are people out there who believe in Jon auku I think it's absurd look he may be an okay practice squad backup level player but Jon auku is not a starter in the NFL like this goes back to the conversation that I had earlier this week my everyday out there will remember talking about Robert Javier how he's the worst cornerback on the team he's not making the roster and the reaction to that from some people is man you're so negative why do you BL and I make the point of do you want nice lies or honest truth mean truth is what I called it I believe what do you want and the mean truth about Juku is he is not an NFL starter like we as a collective fan base just go way overboard with our optimism for these players like I I get that people are hopeful and that people are optimistic and that people what like but expecting undrafted free agents to blossom into quality starters is just asinine like it's insane to have your expectations there in my opinion look an undrafted free agent this is my thought process an undrafted free agent let's hope they could contribute at all if they contribute at all and anyway that's a win some of you guys buy into some of this stuff that you see online about Juku or you know like people believed in Chris Jackson and people believed that de Fitzpatrick would work it out and people thought Jaylen Duncan was the left tackle of the future after one game last year and like we just get way too guys the odds are in the NFL that the best players are high draft picks and now it doesn't always work like that but those are exceptions not the standard rule so I say all that to say this get that Juku stuff out of my face he's not starting for this team and if he does it's an outright disaster npf may very well be a disaster in his own right but we need to put mpf right back into that starting lineup immediately back as the starter okay so at least we have a guy who was a mid- round pick who started for a full season as a rookie in the NFL who can now go back to right tackle where he played that whole season rather than left tackle where he spent a few games last year like this is what the best version of the Titans offensive line will look like leam scaroni cushenberry Raiden npf that's the best version now they could play around with sadique Charles they can uh you know get some Giggles out of putting Jonna Juku and Leroy Watson out there but those those are the five offensive linemen that need to play so I'm very happy to get mpf back out there in training camp hopefully he literally can play with the first team offensive line on Saturday I'm sure we'll get a little bit of news about that and I'll be back on Sunday night to break it all down with you guys so don't panic about DeAndre Hopkins put npf back in the starting lineup right away a little bit of bad news balanced with a little bit of good news Titans practice on Saturday morning I'll be back on Sunday like normal to break it all down with you guys but next weekend Titans preseason game so gonna have a lot of fun this week getting ready for that make sure that you tune in every single day but with that being said that is going to do it for this bonus edition of the locked on Titans podcast as always I am your host Tyler Roland and this was locked on Titans a