The Tennessee Titans will face the Jacksonville Jaguars in Week 14. Here’s fantasy football start-sit advice for every Titans skill player who has the potential to make a fantasy impact during the game.
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Will Levis, QB
When the schedule came out and we saw the late bye weeks, it was only natural to wonder about QB streaming options with Lamar Jackson and C.J. Stroud both on bye. It’s entirely possible that I would have given you 10 names as viable single-week options ahead of Will Levis, but here were are.
Levis has thrown multiple touchdown passes in three of his past four games and is landing haymaker punches on a regular basis. The sustainability of things is a fair concern, but you only need the good times to last for another 60 minutes, and I think that’s more than possible against a Jaguars defense that ranks dead last in yards per pass attempt (6.3% worse than any other defense).
Jacksonville also owns the second-highest opponent passing touchdown rate, giving Levis every chance to extend his recent strong play. My concern is simple: we are relying on efficiency from a QB that has a career completion percentage of 61.2% and a touchdown-to-interception rate of 1.5.
Just once this season has Levis completed 30 passes in a game, and if this game remains tight, the run game figures to be featured in a significant way. I have him ranked as my QB14 this week, easily his highest grade for me this season, and ahead of Geno Smith and Matthew Stafford, to name a few.
Tony Pollard, RB
Tony Pollard lost a fumble last week, his first of the season, but he remained involved after that even with Tyjae Spears back in the mix.
It hasn’t been pretty, but the Titans’ lead back has multiple catches in every game this season and is averaging 27.3 touches per game in victories this season. Whether you like Tennessee or Jacksonville in this game, it should be competitive, and that puts Pollard in a position to rack up the type of volume that gives him top-10 potential against a bottom-five defense in terms of red-zone drives and yards per short pass attempt conceded.
I want exposure to any back who projects for 15+ touches against the Jaguars, and that is the case here. Pollard is my RB16 for Week 14.
Tyjae Spears, RB
Tyjae Spears returned from a one-game absence and posted his lowest snap share for a game in which he didn’t exit early (26%). He got his hands on the ball just one time against the Commanders (a three-yard rush), and while I expect his usage to trend closer to where it was earlier this season, we are still talking about a running back who has one game with more than 10 touches this season.
This is the Tony Pollard show, and that’s not going to change down the stretch this season. Spears is a poor man’s version of Jaylen Warren; considering that the real version of Warren is on the outskirts of Flex value, color me pessimistic that Tennessee’s RB2 will grace my top 30 at any point moving forward.
Calvin Ridley, WR
We have a few revenge spots this week, and Calvin Ridley is positioned to make the most of it even after an underwhelming game in Washington. Tennessee’s WR1 has a 25+ yard catch in six of his past seven games, averaging 8.6 targets per game over that stretch.
This matchup is just right for this skill set — the Jaguars allow the second-most yards per deep passes and the fourth-most YAC yards across all pass types this season as a part of a defense that is the worst in the sport (per EPA).
I mentioned the poor Week 13 showing, and those low-efficiency days are going to happen when attached to Will Levis. For the season, Ridley has three games with at least seven targets and under 50 receiving yards. You have to take that floor into account before locking in your lineup, but the volume is strong enough to justify optimism in this ideal matchup.
Nick Westbrook-Ikhine, WR
Who do we think of when it comes to touchdown-only players? I polled the crew here at PFN and got some fun names that put me in a time machine:
- Tommy Vardell (1997-98): TD on 16.3% of touches
- Brandon Jacobs (2005): TD on 14.3% of touches
- Mike Tolbert (2012): TD on 13% of carries
- TJ Duckett (2008): TD on 12.9% of touches
- Mike Alstott (2005): TD on 11.8% of touches
Those are cute names. And I don’t disagree with any of them — those players, in those seasons, were put on the field for one purpose and one purpose only.
- Westbrook-Ikhine (2024): TD on 40% of touches
What we are seeing is as historic as it is unsustainable. For the season, 73.1% of his PPR points this season have come on touchdown receptions, a rate that is difficult to comprehend. A 14.4% on-field target share would have trouble cracking my top 30 receivers in any offense, let alone a Will Levis-led unit.
I don’t own Westbrook-Ikhine anywhere, but if I did, I’d have benched him every week this season. I’m a math guy, and that remains the proper process play — if you’re buying his vibes as sustainable (despite the lack of a single elite trait), more power to you. I’ll side with logic and statistics and take my chances.