Mike Vrabel was Malik Willis\u2019 head coach for the first two years of the quarterback\u2019s career.<\/p>\n
A Titans third-round pick in 2022, Willis appeared in eight games with three starts under Vrabel as a rookie and then another three games in 2023.<\/p>\n
The two will be on opposite sidelines on Sunday, as the Dolphins face the Patriots in South Florida.<\/p>\n
Vrabel told reporters on Monday that working with Willis in Nashville was great.<\/p>\n
\u201cMalik\u2019s continued to develop, and that\u2019s the thing that I\u2019m proud of him for, and I know that he should be proud of himself to continue to battle and go to Green Bay,\u201d Vrabel said, via transcript from the team. \u201cI try to stay in communication with him, tell him congrats and that I\u2019m happy for him, and then he gets a deal in Miami.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s very talented. He\u2019s got a strong arm, can throw at different platforms. He\u2019s a strong runner. I think he\u2019s starting to see things a little quicker, a little clearer, just as he\u2019s developed in the NFL.\u201d<\/p>\n
Through six games in 2026, Willis has completed 57.6 percent of his passes for 1,057 yards with four touchdowns and four interceptions. He\u2019s also rushed for 223 yards with three TDs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mike Vrabel was Malik Willis\u2019 head coach for the first two years of the quarterback\u2019s career. A Titans…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":896830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-896829","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\/896829","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=896829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/896830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}