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Marcus Mariota: A Career in Two Toned Blue

With incumbent Ryan Tannehill now entrenched as the present and future for the Tennessee Titans, it’s time to take a look at a former Ducks legend’s time in Nashville. It was a promising career marred by injury, poor coaching, and just pure dumb bad luck.

2015

Fresh off a dominant Heisman winning campaign (and tear inducing speech that only ESPN’s Tom Rinaldi can rival in making grown men cry) that fell just short of a national title, Marcus Mariota was the second overall draft pick of the Titans.

Mariota was handed the reigns to the starting job from the word go.