Calvin Ridley sees some Julio Jones in Tennessee teammate.
Tennessee Titans invested in improving their wide-receiver corps for second-year quarterback Will Levis by signing Calvin Ridley and Tyler Boyd in free agency this offseason.
They joined DeAndre Hopkins, who had 1,057 receiving yards in 2023, his first season with the Titans.
But before Tennessee had Hopkins, Ridley or Boyd, it had Treylon Burks, the 18th pick in the 2022 NFL Draft.
In his two NFL seasons, Burks has 49 receptions for 665 yards and one touchdown in 22 games.
But Ridley said Burks shouldn’t be discounted by the Titans’ talent influx. Ridley said Burks reminded him of Julio Jones, A.J. Brown and Terrell Owens. Like Ridley a former Alabama standout, Jones, a seven-time Pro Bowler, was Ridley’s mentor in his first three seasons with the Atlanta Falcons. Brown has been a Pro Bowler the past two seasons for the Philadelphia Eagles. Owens is a Pro Football Hall of Fame member from Alexander City.
“This dude is a freak,” Ridley said of Burks. “Like seriously, bro, he’s going to be a stud. There’s no worries in him. What I see, he’s like Julio, A.J. Brown, he’s like T.O. A dude that big, that fast, I mean, he’s a stud, man. You ain’t got to worry about him. He’s just got to learn, slow the game down. He’ll be all right.”
For Ridley, Burks is part of a deep and talented position group for Tennessee.
“Once I’m out here running with these guys, sweating, tired with them, throwing up some days – I don’t care, I shouldn’t say all this – but I don’t be caring who the other team got,” Ridley said. “We’re the best, and we’re working together, so I should think that we’re going to be good.”
The Titans signed Ridley to a four-year, $92 million contract in March after he had 76 receptions for 1,016 yards and eight touchdowns for the Jacksonville Jaguars in 2023.
