![]() Levis made it all secondary - and maybe won over some Vols lovers - with an impressive, encouraging performance. Fans of the Titans and Vols were in some cases vocally displeased when the Titans drafted him instead of the UT quarterback who had a much better 2022 season amid much better conditions, Hendon Hooker. If you want to extend the negativity to Levis’ world, he lined up just hours after his Kentucky Wildcats lost at home Saturday night to the Tennessee Volunteers. NFL Week 8 takeaways: CeeDee Lamb delivers for Cowboys, Eagles find a way again (Don’t have a final exhale on that until Tuesday afternoon, by the way.) On the negative side, let’s see: The Titans came in with a 2-4 record they traded star safety and primary team leader Kevin Byard last week, though Vrabel refused to acknowledge the 2-4 start had anything to do with it former Titans star AJ Brown, who is on one of the all-time tears for a receiver in this league, told Byard he’s “a winner now” when he got to Philly Vrabel dunked on an NFL Network report that Levis would start and spent much of the week selling a “two-quarterback approach” in this game with Levis and Malik Willis both stepping in for injured starter Ryan Tannehill, which sounded like a bad middle school football idea conflicting reports on the QB situation and trade rumors made it look like the Titans had different people telling different reporters different things, which is never a good sign and the talk around Henry had Titans fans especially concerned that his incredible run in Nashville might be coming to an abrupt end. Titans fans can only hope Levis is much more like the latter than the former. Levis joins Mariota and Fran Tarkenton as the only quarterbacks in NFL history to debut with four touchdown passes. 8 - Marcus Mariota - threw four touchdown passes and finished with a perfect passer rating of 158.3 in his rookie debut at Tampa Bay. Perspective should be ample in Nashville, considering it was eight years ago that another No. Also, this is a good time to remind everyone that the entire menu of possibilities remains in play for Levis’ NFL future, that plenty of careers at this position have started auspiciously on their way to a loud thud. Vrabel typically downplays individual performance, good and bad, especially if that’s the primary topic after a game. “You can only learn it out there,” said Titans coach Mike Vrabel, who called Levis’ performance “not a bad debut” and “good” in terms of poise and decision-making. College film, combine testing, interviews, practice reps, meetings, film study, locker room relationships, it all matters.Īdd it all together and there’s still nothing close to certainty on how a quarterback will perform when a game plan is installed, an opposing game plan is in place, the pressure is on and the guys on the other team are flying around, trying to fool him and do him harm. There’s nothing like an actual game as a tool for the evaluation of a young quarterback. There’s nothing like hope at that position to change the feeling around an NFL team, and Levis delivered it to Tennessee Titans fans like the billowy, effortless deep balls he launched into the air for three of the four scoring tosses. “He plays the game like he’s been here before,” said DeAndre Hopkins, who was on the other end of 128 of those passing yards and three of the touchdowns. “He was playing out of his mind,” Derrick Henry said of the rookie and second-round pick from Kentucky, whose stat line (19-for-29, 238 yards, four touchdowns, no picks, 130.5 rating) doesn’t quite do justice to the results of the eyeball test. Levis just pushed it all to in three wild hours of fun. ![]() Levis was spectacular in Sunday’s 28-23 win over the Atlanta Falcons in front of 68,008 at Nissan Stadium, overtaking center stage for a franchise that has so much going on right now. If Levis’ NFL debut is a sign of things to come, the fine football-following folks of Nashville are going to need to make a song out of it for him. This is a perfect nickname for a rookie NFL quarterback who was especially polarizing as a draft prospect because it works as endearing. ![]() Or, and credit this to a Nashville sports talk radio caller who should try to monetize it as quickly as possible, he’s the man they call Billy Jeans. Those of us who type his name often - and are about to be typing it at a much higher rate - know well the name “Will Levi’s.” The denim deliveryman. ![]()
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