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Early walk-throughs have Johnson excited about the opportunity to run the football this fall. “Basically we’re learning a new playbook right now and there’s a lot of different things going in,” the running back said. “It’s something we should have a good time doing. … Last year. … We basically were trying to turn into like a passing team. Coming in this year [we know] it’s going to be a run-first offense.”
Reported by the Nashville City Paper
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Early in the offseason, the Titans overhauled the offensive personnel through free agency and the draft. Most notably, they signed free agent guard Andy Levitre and used two picks in the first four rounds of the draft on guard Chance Warmack (first round) center Brian Scwenke (fourth round). Not to be overlooked was the addition of veteran running back Shonn Greene, who topped 1,000 yards rushing each of the last two years with the New York Jets. He also was a league-best 10-for-10 last season in third-and-1 conversion attempts. The immediate question was whether Greene will take carries away from Johnson, one of seven backs ever to rush for more than 2,000 in an NFL season, or an extra body is needed to handle the additional number of handoffs. “Obviously, CJ is the franchise running back and I’ll be the first to say that,” OC Dowell Loggains said. “Shonn will be a change-of-pace back who is going to come in. There will be games when Shonn is rolling that he may get 15-20 carries. And there may be a game when CJ gets rolling and he carries the rock 30 times. ..." That latter number will suit Johnson just fine. "Since I’ve been here … if I’m getting 10-12 carries a game I can’t really do nothing with that,” he said. “But [Loggains] has had a whole offseason to get the playbook right and we have a lot of good weapons. So I think we’re doing a good job.”
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