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**travo** · 06-09-2007, 10:55 PM

Recently released Herndon agrees to 3-year deal with Titans

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Following furious weeks of contacts and visits after being released by the Seahawks, cornerback Kelly Herndon accepted a three-year contract to play for the Tennessee Titans.

Terms of the deal were not available, but his salary was substantial enough to be a consideration for a starting job and at worst to be the team's third cornerback. Pacman Jones is expected to miss the entire season on a suspension coming from commissioner Roger Goodell, which put the Titans in the market for a veteran cornerback.

Tennessee signed former Colts cornerback Nick Harper to a three-year, $9.4 million deal months ago prior to Jones' suspension. That left Jeff Fisher with Harper, Reynaldo Hill and Andre Woolfolk at cornerback. Even though Jones appealed his year-long suspension and has the ability to shorten it to 10 games, the Titans didn't want to take any chances and the chance to sign Herndon appealed to him.

Herndon was under consideration by the Chiefs, Lions and several other teams. He visited the Titans after a visit to Kansas City.

After thinking about his chances, Herndon decided to sign with the Titans.

Senior writer John Clayton covers the NFL for ESPN.com[/b]

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2899236

Bulluck53 · 06-09-2007, 11:11 PM

I'm not upset by this nor am I excited about it. I don't know much about the guy right now. I do believe him to be a decent starting CB so bringing that and experience should help. I just think that this shows:

A. the lack of talent shown by any of our current CBs

B. the fact that Michael Griffin is struggling a lot at corner and will be moved bacxk to his natural position

**travo** · 06-09-2007, 11:15 PM

I don't think this pick up had anything to do with the progress of Michael Griffin. Even if Griffin was looking like the next great thing already in practices the team could still use another solid and proven CB. From Reinfeldt's comments about Herndon before the signing it sounded like they view Herndon as a nickleback so it's very feasible that Harper and Griffin could be the #1 and 2 CB's with Herndon guarding the slot reciever and providing run support. No matter what happens this signing gives the Titans flexibility and makes them less reliant on Adam Jones.

**MileHighSalute** · 06-10-2007, 01:01 PM

well this is a good signing herndon is a solid player.. but the stupidest move the titans could do is move griffin to CB.. he wont make it.. he doesnt have the speed or CB skills needed. He is great at what he does... a hard hitting saftey with good cover skills as a saftey.

**Duds47** · 06-11-2007, 01:40 PM

Hopefully you don't have to play any games against Peerless price.

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