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Tennessee Titans: Signing Bud Dupree

With Jadeveon Clowney not working out as a pass rusher for them in 2020, the Tennessee Titans elected to go in a different direction this year as they landed former Pittsburgh Steelers outside linebacker Bud Dupree.

Tennessee landed Dupree on a five-year deal worth $82.5 million which is a lot of money for any pass-rusher but especially for one who is coming off a torn ACL. He should be able to recover from the injury and it won’t impact him beyond this season (hopefully) but the Titans just had Clowney spend the second half of 2020 on the IR and now, Dupree could start 2021 on the sidelines.

That’s not the only concern here either as Dupree also wasn’t great until the past two seasons. He was far from a bust but he wasn’t living up to his draft status for the first four seasons with the Steelers.

Then in 2019, which was a contract year, he had career-highs in tackles (68) and sacks (11.5). Pittsburgh placed the franchise tag on him in 2020, wanting to see him repeat his success before giving him a long-term deal meaning he was again in a contract year in 2020 and had 31 tackles and eight sacks in 11 games before suffering the injury.

Dupree also benefited greatly from the presence of T.J. Watt across from him who was commanding double-teams. Without a player of Watt’s caliber to take the pressure off of him, Dupree will have to try and do it on his own, which might not work.