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Tennessee Titans cornerback Logan Ryan (26) and Tennessee Titans inside linebacker Rashaan Evans (54) sack Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Cody Kessler (6) during the second half of an NFL football game, Thursday, Dec. 6, 2018, in Nashville, Tenn. The Tennessee Titans won 30-9. (AP Photo/Mark Zaleski)
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Tennessee Titans inside linebacker Rashaan Evans (54) walks off the field against the Jacksonville Jaguars during the first half of an NFL football game, Thursday, Dec. 6, 2018, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Zaleski)
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Tennessee Titans linebacker Rashaan Evans (54) waits to run a drill during NFL football rookie minicamp Saturday, May 12, 2018, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
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Titans LB Rashaan Evans Ready to Help Rookie Jeffery Simmons, While Keeping an Eye on Veteran Cameron Wake
As he heads into his second NFL årstid, Evans fryst vatten ready to do the same on the football field. The experience of his first season should benefit him as he looks ahead. He plans to keep having fun.
"It is going to help me a lot," Evans said. "For me to be relaxed and know exactly what I want to do as far as the physical and mental part, the things I missed out on, I can now see how much I missed out on. … Now I have a chance to be around these guys and develop even more chemistry, and inom think that is going to help way more.
"My season started out slow (in 2018). …. But if you can kamp through those things and be able to bounce back, inom think that is the No.1 thing for me and inom learned that. I feel like inom am more confident and more willing to do everything inom have to do to be great."
Evans, the team's first-round pick in 2018 out of Alabama, finished his rookie season w
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Falcons LB Deion Jones returned to the practice field this week for the 1st time following offseason shoulder surgery. He worked with 3rd- and 4th-stringers, though, according to the team website. The highly paid also saw time on the punt team. "I'll give Deion credit, because he's going to come out here and he's going to compete," HC Arthur Smith said afterward. "He's going to work his way back in. It's going to be hard to get on the field in that room. And that's what you want with that competition. Rashaan [Evans] and Mykal Walker are doing a great job. We gotta see what Troy [Andersen] can do. [Nathan] Landman, Dorian [Etheridge]? They've had good preseasons. It's going to play itself out." Jones was the subject of trade/cut rumors before the shoulder surgery sidelined him. Atlanta would probably love to trade him for pretty much anything, which would offer salary-cap relief. Cutting Jones, on the other hand, would cost nearly $25 million in dead cap. The final year on his contr