The Titans jumped into free agency before the new League Year began, signing cornerback Brice McCain. The deal is reportedly a two-year contract worth up to $5 million.
The veteran (turned 29 in December) should be in a familiar scheme, as he played for Dick LeBeau’s 2014 Steelers before signing with the Dolphins last offseason. In his season in Pittsburgh, he played in 14 games, starting 9 of them, and had a career-high three interceptions plus six passes defensed. He played in 14 games in Miami last year, starting 11 of them, and had 10 passes defensed and 1 pretty danged good interception (video link).
You may remember him best as the Texans’ nickel back when Wade Phillips turned that defense around. He’s spent much of his career as a slot corner and had the normal variance between exceptional (2011) and really not at all exceptional (2012) results in that job. Miami put him on the outside some last year, with apparently some not so great results. I’d have to watch Pittsburgh in 2014 to see just how and how well he played there; a good offseason post in another year, really.
When I did the cornerbacks positional analysis, I wrote I thought the Titans absolutely needed to add one corner and should add two capable of being a rotation player in 2016. McCain gives them one, and it wouldn’t surprise me to see them look to the draft for the second.
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