Tennessee Titans Black Quarterback

They are listed in order of the date of each player s first start at quarterback for the titans.

Tennessee titans black quarterback. Marcus mariota 2015 2019 blaine gabbert 2018 zach mettenberger 2014 2015 charlie whitehurst 2014. Lists of nfl starting quarterbacks tennessee titans franchise encyclopedia national. Vrabel didn t appear to take issue with his quarterback saying our country was based on racist ideas. With the third overall pick in the 1995 nfl draft the houston oilers and new head coach jeff fisher selected mcnair making him at the time the highest drafted african american quarterback in nfl history and signing him to a seven year contract.

After the first month of the season there was a degree of optimism around tennessee titans quarterback marcus mariota. List of all tennessee titans starting quarterbacks the number of games they started during the season is listed to the right. He was the nfl s most efficient quarterback while leading tennessee to its first appearance in the afc. In a week 4 win over the falcons mariota completed 66 7 of his passes.

On behalf of his black teammates white titans qb ryan tannehill emphasizes that this country was founded upon racist ideas video posted at 1 44 pm on august 28 2020 by sarah d. This as he and his teammates announced on twitter that the best way to take a stand was to not have practice that day. In 13 games as the team s starting quarterback tannehill led the titans to nine wins. These quarterbacks have started for the national football league s tennessee titans.

Professional career houston tennessee oilers titans 1995 1996 seasons. On thursday tennessee titans quarterback ryan tannehill who recently signed a four year 118 million contract extension stated that america was founded upon racist ideas standing with his teammates who along with him had skipped practice to protest the shooting of jacob blake tannehill followed a speech from teammate kelvin byard a defensive safety for the team who had stated. Mcnair did not see his first action until the last two series of the. Tennessee titans starting quarterback ryan tannehill this week said america was founded on racism and he promptly demanded social change.

Tennessee titans titans august 27 2020. In another video tweeted by the titans coach mike vrabel expressed how proud he is of the players for boycotting and standing up on this topic.