Titans Bring Back Former Special Teams Star

Josh Kalu made the play that arguably kick-started the Tennessee Titans’ run to the 2019 AFC Championship recreation.

Saturday, the veteran defensive again returned to the Titans in an try and re-start his NFL profession.

Tennessee signed Kalu, whose final regular-season look was within the ultimate recreation of 2020. He spent all final season on injured reserve with the New York Giants.

In a corresponding transfer, veteran security Rodney Clemons was launched. Clemons initially joined the Titans as a member of the apply squad for the ultimate month of the 2021 season and was signed to a futures contract for 2022 shortly after the playoff loss to Cincinnati. Undrafted in 2020, he has hung out with two NFL franchises however has but to seem in a regular-season recreation.

Kalu has performed 28 video games in his profession – all with Tennessee from 2018-20 – and has been credited with 10 tackles, one move defensed and one pressured fumble.

Roughly 80 % of his snaps, nevertheless, have come on particular groups, and he has been credited with one other 15 tackles in that capability. Additionally, it was there that he made his most notable affect.

His blocked discipline objective as time expired on Nov. 10, 2019 preserved a 35-32 victory over the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs at Nissan Stadium. That was the primary of a four-game win streak and a run of 5 wins within the ultimate seven video games allowed the Titans to assert the ultimate AFC playoff spot. They upset New England and Baltimore within the postseason earlier than a loss to the Chiefs within the convention title recreation. He additionally recovered a fumble to cap the wild victory over the Patriots.

Kalu entered the NFL when Tennessee signed him as an undrafted free agent out of Nebraska in 2018.