{"id":758238,"date":"2026-07-12T08:43:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T08:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/758238\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T08:43:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T08:43:24","slug":"titans-te-gunnar-helm-eyes-an-even-bigger-second-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/758238\/","title":{"rendered":"Titans TE Gunnar Helm eyes an even bigger second season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Titans tight end Gunnar Helm, a fourth-round pick in 2025, appeared in 16 games, with 10 starts, as a rookie. He ranked fourth on the team with 44 receptions, which set a franchise record for rookie tight ends, and fourth on the team with 357 receiving yards.<\/p>\n<p>Helm scored twice and had at least one reception in all 16 games he played.<\/p>\n<p>He isn\u2019t satisfied.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s always something to go out there and do,\u201d Helm said, via Jim Wyatt of the team website, \u201c<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tennesseetitans.com\/news\/titans-tight-end-gunnar-helm-taking-nothing-for-granted-as-he-heads-into-year-two\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">always something to prove<\/a>, and there\u2019s somebody always coming for your spot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Helm has a new head coach (Robert Saleh), a new offensive coordinator (Brian Daboll) and new teammates at tight end, with veterans Daniel Bellinger and Kylen Granson and rookie Jaren Kanak joining Helm, David Martin-Robinson and Joel Wilson on the roster this offseason.<\/p>\n<p>Helm knows Daboll\u2019s offense utilizes the tight ends, which has him excited about building on his rookie season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been great,\u201d Helm said. \u201cObviously [Daboll] is not afraid to use the tight end, did so wherever he\u2019s been. There\u2019s been great clips of like [Rob] Gronkowski [in New England], Dalton Kinkaid [and] Dawson Knox [in Buffalo], just doing things that usually receivers do. Being able to be worked into the offense like that, it\u2019s been great.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Titans tight end Gunnar Helm, a fourth-round pick in 2025, appeared in 16 games, with 10 starts, as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":758239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-758238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758238","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=758238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/758239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}