Farley Not Finished With Preseason Play

NASHVILLE – Caleb Farley is without doubt one of the few Tennessee Titans starters who already has performed this preseason. And he isn’t completed.

The 2021 first-round select of Virginia Tech additionally is probably going see motion this Saturday towards the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Nissan Stadium and per week later within the preseason finale towards the Arizona Cardinals.

“It’s nice for him to be on the market and play,” defensive coordinator Shane Bowen stated Sunday. “The extra reps he can get in follow, the extra reps he can get in game-like conditions – most likely – the higher as a result of he’s nonetheless getting acclimated to this sport, to this degree, to the NFL.”

Farley together with fellow cornerback Kristian Fulton and nostril sort out Naquan Jones had been the one seemingly or potential starters on Tennessee’s protection who performed in Thursday’s 23-10 loss at Baltimore. Farley stayed on the sector for twenty-four snaps, second amongst Titans cornerbacks in that contest.

He was credited with two tackles and no passes defensed. Instantly afterward, coach Mike Vrabel characterised his efficiency as “OK” however “not ok.” Vrabel pointed particularly to the sport’s first third-down play, a third-and-6 on which the Ravens accomplished a go for 8 yards towards Farley for instance of the place he must be higher.

“You’ll be able to’t play nook on this league with out having any person full a go on you,” Vrabel stated earlier in coaching camp. “That is not going to be potential. However he simply retains exhibiting as much as work, retains practising, retains engaged on approach, after which exhibits up within the conferences able to study and able to repair any errors that confirmed up.

“So, I am excited to observe him exit and play (as I’m with) whoever else is on the market.”

No matter Farley did or didn’t do effectively towards the Ravens, it’s greater than he did presently in 2021, when an damage compelled him to sit down out the preseason opener. Finally, he made it on the sector for the ultimate two tune-up contests. In all, he logged 37 snaps on offense and 4 on particular groups in sport motion forward of the common season.

Well being points quickly caught up with Farley once more, although. He appeared in simply three of the primary six video games and logged 60 snaps on protection and 14 on particular groups earlier than a torn knee ligament compelled him to spend the remainder of the marketing campaign on injured reserve and endure a prolonged rehab.

Add all of it up, and he successfully has a bit of greater than a sport’s price of NFL sport expertise to his credit score after an abbreviated faculty profession that consisted of 24 video games, one full season sidelined by an damage (2017) and one other on the sideline after he opted out on account of COVID-19 considerations (2020).

That makes each snap he can get presently of yr invaluable.

“He had a couple of video games there final yr earlier than he received harm,” Bowen stated. “So, once more, we’re going to attempt to get all the pieces we will out of him in these video games, let him get some reps and see the place it’s at simply so he can study and be on the market and get a really feel for the way it’s going to go.”