{"id":784655,"date":"2026-03-01T16:10:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T16:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/784655\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T16:10:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T16:10:14","slug":"what-is-tennessee-titans-lb-adren-keys-free-agency-value","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/784655\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Tennessee Titans LB Adren Key’s free agency value?"},"content":{"rendered":"

March 1, 2026, 8:40 a.m. ET<\/p>\n

Tennessee Titans<\/a> outside linebacker Arden Key is not forecasted to earn a raise on his next contract in free agency, according to one of his market value projections.<\/p>\n

Key signed a three-year, $21 million deal with the Titans<\/a> in 2023. The 29-year-old earned $6.92 million on the final year of his deal in 2025.<\/p>\n

Key played 12 games last season due to various injuries. He saw his sacks reduce from 6.5 in 2024 to 4.0 in 2025. Pro Football Focus gave Key a player grade of 63.7 for his performance on the year.<\/p>\n

Key\u2019s play went beyond the numbers, but was not enough to garner a higher average annual salary projection than the average annual salary of his last deal.<\/p>\n

Spotrac estimated Key\u2019s market value<\/a> to be $6.7 million in 2026. Key will be an unrestricted free agent this winter.<\/p>\n

Expert NFL picks: Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a><\/p>\n

Key registered his fewest quarterback hits (11) since 2020. The Georgia native also regressed from 11 tackles for loss in 2024 to six in 2025. Key\u2019s combination of injuries, as well as a decrease in output serve as a rationale for his market value appraisal staying relatively the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"March 1, 2026, 8:40 a.m. ET Tennessee Titans outside linebacker Arden Key is not forecasted to earn a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":784656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2061],"tags":[95878,7,6,96009,96010,95882,98073,95895,95899,95883,95889,526,394,2411,527,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-784655","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennessee-titans","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sstssportsnfltitans","12":"tag-sstsntitans","13":"tag-tagamerican-football","14":"tag-tagarden-key","15":"tag-tagnfl-hub","16":"tag-tagoverall-neutral","17":"tag-tagsports-news","18":"tag-tagtennessee-titans","19":"tag-tennessee","20":"tag-tennessee-titans","21":"tag-tennesseetitans","22":"tag-titans","23":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116154796493986975","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784655","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=784655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/784656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}