The Facts:
By mid-March, the Titans must decide whether to keep or cut Johnson. If he’s on the team’s roster on the fifth day of the league year, Johnson gets his base salary of $8 million. If the Titans cut ties with him, owner Bud Adams doesn’t have to write that check.
Reported by the Nashville Tennessean
Fantasy Football Diehards Line:
HC Mike Munchak is on record as saying he expects Johnson to be on the roster, although he acknowledges the final personnel call lies with GM Mike Reinfeldt and, ultimately, the owner. “I would assume that he is going to be on our roster, yes,” Munchak said before concedingt that Johnson is no longer the 4.24-second burner he was at the ’08 combine. “Is he a step slower? Yeah, I’m sure he is,” Munchak said when asked if Joshson had lost some of his speed. “I don’t know how you would measure that exactly, but I’m sure he has. ...” So will he stay? Tennessean columnist David Climber thinks so. "Given the current state of their roster," Climber wrote, "the Titans have no real choice but to bank on the possibility that with a dedicated off-season conditioning program and a full training camp — not to mention better blocking at the point of attack — Johnson will more closely resemble the 2,006-yard runner of 2009 than the 1,047-yard runner of 2011." We'll buy that.
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