Former Titans starter they traded away immediately runs into bad luck in debut with his new team

This trade isn’t going great for anybody.

Easton Freeze — Tennessee Titans Beat Writer
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The Tennessee Titans made three trades this season before the trade deadline, and two of the three players moved have enjoyed some success with their new teams. The first trade GM Mike Borgonzi made was CB Jarvis Brownlee Jr, who went to the Jets and put together a couple of impressive games early on. The final trade before the deadline was sending EDGE Dre’Mont Jones to the Ravens, who has nearly played his way into upgrading the Titans’ conditional pick they received for him.

But the trade that was made in between those moves was sending CB Roger McCreary to the Rams for a Day 3 pick swap. The move was panned by some at the time, and the Titans have been down a true starter at the position ever since. But checking back in on McCreary out west, it’s not been all sunshine and rainbows for him and his new team yet either. In fact, he got some rough news this week.

Roger McCreary’s start with the Rams has been brutal

When players leave the Titans roster, sometimes funny things happen. Tennessee’s roster is so sparse and subpar in places, that there can be a funhouse mirror effect on just how good a player actually is. A starter in Tennessee right now might not be a starter anywhere else in the league. And with McCreary, his first couple of weeks in LA certainly underscored the disparity in depth between the last-place Titans and the Super Bowl-hopeful Rams.

For three weeks, McCreary was on a strict diet of special teams snaps only. It took a month for him to finally break into the defensive rotation, and on his very first snap he got hurt. He took off after Baker Mayfield on a corner blitz, successfully pressuring him into an incompletion, but pulled up hurt after the whistle. He didn’t return to the game. Afterwards, head coach Sean McVay indicated he could have pushed to go back in had the game been more dire.

It was a hip injury that sidelined him, and after making things sound unconcerning over the weekend at the podium, the team’s transaction wire told a different story. McCreary was placed on IR.

He’ll miss at least until Week 17, when he could be designated for return to gear up for the playoff run. Reaction to the pre-deadline move from those on the Rams side of things has been pretty mixed so far.

Here’s to hoping the former Titan gets healthy and can continue a successful career.

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