{"id":143753,"date":"2025-06-20T02:11:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T02:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/143753\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T02:11:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T02:11:23","slug":"titans-wr-treylon-burks-out-to-prove-myself-right-in-comeback-from-torn-acl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/143753\/","title":{"rendered":"Titans WR Treylon Burks out to ‘prove myself right’ in comeback from torn ACL"},"content":{"rendered":"

Burks’ first offseason in Tennessee was disrupted by conditioning concerns and dealing with asthma<\/a>. He was limited in the Titans’ organized team activities and held out of mandatory minicamp, thereafter failing to find his footing as a rookie — even though that campaign remains his best as a pro.<\/p>\n

He logged 33 catches for 444 yards and a touchdown that year. He has 699 receiving yards with the lone TD on 53 catches in 27 career games to this point.<\/p>\n

Burks has missed time due to concussions and also an LCL sprain two seasons ago.<\/p>\n

After Callahan took over head-coaching duties in 2024, he said ahead of training camp that Burks was going to need to contribute on special teams<\/a>, signaling the young WR might be closer to the bottom of the depth chart than he’d been previously. Burks indeed saw additional time as a special teamer, participating in 9.3% of the team’s special teams plays last season. His offensive snap percentage dropped from 62.1 the season prior to 47.9.<\/p>\n

Then came the ACL injury in practice, which he called a “freak accident.”<\/p>\n

Initially downtrodden after another setback, Burks is now using it as motivation, something he’ll need no shortage of in a contract year after having his fifth-year option declined<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“I never questioned God, like, ‘Why me?,” he said. “But it did put the mindset in my head, on if I still love the game, because it comes with a lot. And, just from going out every day, seeing what the guys are going through, watching it from home, it made me miss it more, and [now I want] to honor it.<\/p>\n

“Every day that I am here at this facility, and every day that I am working, I don’t take it for granted. It means a lot more to me now. I’m not saying it didn’t mean a lot before, but it definitely means more now.”<\/p>\n

Tennessee’s offseason program now finished, Burks’ next step in recovery and redemption involves continuing to gear up for training camp, with eyes on a July 22 report date<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Once there and whenever he’s fully cleared, he must prove to himself — and the Titans — he’s worthy of a spot in the WR room.<\/p>\n

Calvin Ridley<\/a> remains the team’s No. 1 receiving option for rookie quarterback Cam Ward<\/a>, joined by veteran free-agent additions Tyler Lockett<\/a> and Van Jefferson<\/a> and a pair of new fourth-round draftees — Chimere Dike<\/a> and Elic Ayomanor<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Burks will be in the mix alongside them, equipped with a renewed outlook and hoping to help the Titans end a three-year postseason drought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Burks’ first offseason in Tennessee was disrupted by conditioning concerns and dealing with asthma. He was limited in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2061],"tags":[1227,7,88,6,609,4267,526,394,2411,527,4050],"class_list":{"0":"post-143753","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennessee-titans","8":"tag-around-the-nfl","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-no-minute","13":"tag-offseason-news","14":"tag-tennessee","15":"tag-tennessee-titans","16":"tag-tennesseetitans","17":"tag-titans","18":"tag-treylon-burks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114713269603641322","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}