Yahoo Sports NFL analyst Nate Tice, NFL writer Charles McDonald and fantasy analyst Matt Harmon break down the Tennessee Titans signing WR Wan’Dale Robinson. Check out the full conversation on “Football 301” – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
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And Robinson could be a nice, reliable guy, but I just don’t think he’s a true needle mover, for a position that I think is very fungible and findable, I would say is a good way to put it.
No, I mean, it’s f- I think it’s fine, was my reaction to this.
Like, it’s not, I’m not gonna kill it, but I’m not gonna say like great move, Tennessee.
I don’t love that both of these, Robert Sala or Brian Daboll are like, “Let me just get the guys that, like, I didn’t win any games with back in here.”
Like, when is Dre Greenlaw- gonna sign with the Titans, you know?
Like, I don’t- To me, it’s Daniel Bellinger also, didn’t he, he signed with Tennessee as well.
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Yep.
Like, it’s just again- Yes, he did they’re, they’re like the ultimate- Fine they’re- they’re overdoing it in terms of like, “Whoa, I know this guy, so like let me get him in here again- Mm-hmm for a place that I didn’t win any games.”
But yeah, Wan’Dale, like he’s a total, i- he’s a totally acceptable slot receiver.
my two big concerns about it would be, number one, is that I k- I kind of think you, Jamir Adike, you got a nice season out of him, and they’re not completely similar players, but I think, like pre-snap deployment and kind of the same route tree, you’d want those guys doing the same things.
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Like the underneath stuff for these guys, and then like let them rip it deep.
‘Cause essentially what the Giants did with Wan’Dale last year was, what if we to- took his really stupid Mickey Mouse and hitch-heavy route tree from 2024 and just like throw a deep post in there every now and again?
What would that look like?
That’s essentially what they did with him last year, and actually he was much more productive, from an efficiency standpoint, just overall production in ’25 than he was in ’24.
It, it wasn’t great.
A lot of it was just like It, it’s, again, like I said, it’s totally fine, but to me the second thing that I’d be concerned about this with, and I said this on the Athletics livestream and the Titan- Titans fans have been, you know, all over it.
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They hate, they hate this idea ’cause they’re, they’re relating it to the Family Guy boat meme and, which is not what I mean by this.
But like- to me, and I think, I think this is, I think this is the same with with Romeo Dobbs too, by the way.
I think these guys are fine to sign.
Like it’s, it’s not a big deal.
Like they’re not gonna kill you, especially if you’ve got money to burn.
And like I think they can actually both, for teams that just need bodies at wide receiver, be totally fine.
But to me I’d be trying to focus on like, okay, I got these guys, but I’d also be trying to find like who’s the next Wan’Dale Robinson?
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Who’s the next Romeo Dobbs?
Yeah.
‘Cause both these guys are guys who started for four years, were never bad enough to lose their jobs, and just got better and better every single year, till they had their best years in their fourth season.
Now they’re free agents and they’re getting more money with their next teams, and then they prob- neither will probably be on the roster in two years.
‘Cause again, hopefully you’ve found the next replacement for that.
So like I said, it- it’s totally fine, but you just also don’t wanna cut off too many pathways to developments for younger guys on your roster.
But Tennessee’s in such bad sh- shape at wide receiver, I’m not gonna kill them for just throwing stuff at the wall and seeing what sticks here.