{"id":939080,"date":"2026-07-07T12:03:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T12:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/939080\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T12:03:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T12:03:18","slug":"are-titans-fans-overrating-john-franklin-myers-sack-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/939080\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Titans fans overrating John Franklin-Myers\u2019 sack production?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.musiccitymiracles.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tennessee Titans<\/a> fans are excited about having defensive lineman John Franklin-Myers playing next to Jeffery Simmons this season. The Titans made a splash by signing Franklin-Myers in free agency. He was signed to a three-year contract worth $63 million. His $21 million per year price tag was the highest annual value of any deal signed by Mike Borgonzi this offseason.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">New Titans head coach Robert Saleh coached Franklin-Myers with the New York Jets. In fact, Franklin-Myers was essentially an unknown player when Saleh (and new Titans DL coach Aaron Whitecotton) developed him into a highly effective player. That played a massive role in the Titans\u2019 decision to aggressively pursue him in free agency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Franklin-Myers produced a career-high 7.5 sacks for the Denver Broncos last season. It was a perfect follow-up to his 7.0 sack season in 2024. Throughout his career, he\u2019s been more of a modest producer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">From 2020 to 2023, Franklin-Myers totaled 17.5 sacks. With the majority of those years being played under Coach Saleh, Franklin-Myers averaged 4.5 sacks per season. He\u2019s gotten even better since leaving the Jets and joining an elite Broncos defensive line.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Franklin-Myers should form a haunting duo with Simmons inside Saleh\u2019s defensive line. Perhaps playing with such an elite 3-tech like Simmons will help Franklin-Myers reach the 7+ sack number for a third consecutive season. Or perhaps he\u2019ll register 4-5 sacks, more in-line with his career average.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Titans don\u2019t have many pass-rushing threats outside of Simmons and Franklin-Myers. They\u2019re hoping Jermaine Johnson II, who also played for Saleh in New York, can bounce-back in 2026 after his 2025 was ineffective due to a 2024 Achilles injury. Sophomore Femi Oladejo is another unknown after a poor rookie season. Jacob Martin is going to be more involved than most realize.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Hopefuly Franklin-Myers can produce sacks in bunches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tennessee Titans fans are excited about having defensive lineman John Franklin-Myers playing next to Jeffery Simmons this season.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":939081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2061],"tags":[7,6,526,394,88576,2413,2416,2411,527],"class_list":["post-939080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennessee-titans","tag-football","tag-nfl","tag-tennessee","tag-tennessee-titans","tag-tennessee-titans-analysis","tag-tennessee-titans-news","tag-tennessee-titans-roster","tag-tennesseetitans","tag-titans"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116878599990461515","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939080","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=939080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/939081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}