Dynasty Draft Strategy & Trade Advice: Titans (2023 Fantasy Football)

Rookie drafts may be winding down, but it’s important to not completely switch off from your dynasty league in the offseason. Now is a perfect time to take an honest appraisal of your dynasty team and consider its strengths and weaknesses ahead of the season. In this series of division-by-division Dynasty Primers, we’ll look at how each NFL team stacks up and what buying and selling opportunities might be appropriate.

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Tennessee Titans

There are few teams in quite so much turmoil as the Titans find themselves in. This offense is centered around a 29-year-old running back and a quarterback they no longer see as the answer. Year after year, Mike Vrabel coaches up the Titans to an excellent level and gets more out of them than we’d expect. But can it really happen again? Ryan Tannehill has seen his clean pocket completion rate and big-time throw rate drop for four straight years, along with back-to-back seasons with less than 20 passing touchdowns. After scoring 16 rushing touchdowns in the three previous seasons, Tannehill scored only two in 2023. If Tannehill cannot fluff his fantasy numbers with rushing work, he falls off a cliff quickly and is no better than a bench warmer for superflex leagues where his value is, at best, a mid-second-round pick. Will Levis wasn’t deemed worthy of a first-round pick by the Titans, but they did trade up to secure him in the second. It seems inevitable that Levis will have a chance to make the starting job his at some point in the 2023 season.

Derrick Henry has seen his breakaway yards per game decline for three straight seasons. The best hope that he retains some fantasy value might be in the receiving game, where in 2022, he set career highs in targets per game (2.8) and receiving yards per game (26.5). Henry still retains enough value that he can be moved for an early second-round pick. With the warning signs there for all to see, it would be prudent to try sending him to a contending team. Tyjae Spears was drafted in the third round to lighten the load on Henry this year. It would be surprising if the Titans sat the rookie after spending Day 2 capital on Spears. The biggest question mark for Spears will be health, after suffering two torn ACLs so far in his playing career.

The NFL has no wide receiver room in as bad a state as the Titans. Their only receiver of note, Treylon Burks, was acquired with picks the Titans got for trading away AJ Brown. Burks overcame an offseason of talk about his asthma and general fitness levels to flash some brilliant upside. Yet, just as things started to click and he caught his first touchdown pass, he got knocked out of the game. Burks displayed enough ability to earn targets and produce with them that his value is still equivalent to the 1.10 in superflex rookie drafts. Nick Westbrook-Ikhine has occasionally shown signs of life, but your roster likely has issues if you rely on him as a starter. It says everything about this Titans offense that the defacto WR2 is available for a late fourth-round pick.

At tight end, there is a ray of light in Chigoziem Okonkwo. Between Weeks 12-17, he had the third most yards per route run of any player in the league. Not just tight ends, but any player. The Titans were leaning into him, and he delivered and displayed great ability in the blocking game. With Austin Hooper not brought back by the team, it’s possible that Okonkwo can make the Titans tight end role his own for 2023. As a former wide receiver with a very athletic profile, Okonkwo is a fun player to put our chips on.