The trade reunites Johnson with new Titans head coach Robert Saleh, who was in New York when the Jets used a first-round pick on the edge rusher in 2022. Johnson had a roller-coaster four seasons in New York, generating 13.0 total sacks. He earned a Pro Bowl nod under Saleh in 2023, earning 7.5 sacks, but a 2024 injury wiped out all but two tilts, and he never seemed right last season.<\/p>\n
The move highlights the Titans’ need for pass-rushing help surrounding star defensive tackle Jeffery Simmons<\/a>. Trading Sweat further increases Tennessee’s chances of using its swath of free-agent money along the defensive line — a reunion with former Saleh stalwart John Franklin-Myers<\/a>, anyone?<\/p>\n Johnson was a trade candidate last year, and moving him now underscores the probability that Gang Green uses the No. 2 overall pick on a rookie edge. Adding Sweat, a 6-foot-4, 366-pound beast, adds beef to the middle of Aaron Glenn’s defense, which struggled against the run. The former second-round pick has three sacks in two seasons but eats up blockers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The trade reunites Johnson with new Titans head coach Robert Saleh, who was in New York when the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[6255,4,115303,5702,3,6257,215714,99,147183,8853],"class_list":{"0":"post-492039","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-around-the-nfl","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-jermaine-johnson-ii","11":"tag-new-york-jets","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-no-minute","14":"tag-offseason-news","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-tvondre-sweat","17":"tag-tennessee-titans"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}