Tennessee Titans QB Malik Willis dazzles with TD in his NFL preseason debut

Tennessee Titans quarterback Malik Willis showed everyone why he perhaps should have been taken a little bit higher in the draft with his preseason display. 

This year’s draft class wasn’t exactly famed for its apparent level of talent when it came to the quarterback position, perhaps best exemplified by the fact that only one went in the top 50, and four in the top 100, whereas previous years have seen that many go in the top ten alone.

But even so, given the importance of quarterbacks, and how it felt as if some teams around the league needed to bring someone in, whether that be for an immediate fix or to be ‘groomed’ to take over in the future, it was strange to see players like Malik Willis fall so far down the draft before finally being picked up by the Tennessee Titans.

Willis you would imagine will fall into the latter category of why and where he was drafted, as you would imagine he will be brought in to serve as an understudy and possibly the eventual successor to 34-year-old Ryan Tannehill.

It’s true that Willis did put up some rather impressive numbers whilst in college at Liberty, passing for over 5,000 yards and 47 touchdowns whilst also rushing for an additional 1,822 yards and 27 touchdowns, but some of that might have been down to the opposition that they were playing, as Liberty doesn’t exactly have the toughest schedule as a result of their conference affiliation.

As a result, in the last two years he was playing college football, they only had to take on two teams that were ranked inside the top 25, and only five games against opponents from the ‘Power 5’ conferences, and as a result he might not be ready to make the jump straight away to the NFL level.

But in his first preseason game, he certainly