Tennessee Titans’ second-year wideout Treylon Burks went all-out to make sure he wouldn’t miss a team practice despite many transportation-related inconveniences.
Burks was planning to fly into the first day of team OTAs on Monday. But as noted by Titans’ beat writer Paul Kuharsky, a series of travel issues began to unfold just as Burks was getting ready to fly out.
The 2022 first-round pick was set to fly out of Dallas, but the plane ride was delayed. He then turned to the idea of renting a car, but there weren’t any available until Thursday. Still determined, Burks and his agent went to plan C until they finally came across a well-deserved solution:
“Carroll contacted five private pilots and no one was willing to fly him on a Sunday night. They considered Burks driving to Nashville in Carroll’s son’s car and figuring out a way to get it back later.
Finally, they found a plan: A pilot with a small Cessna was willing to fly Burks, and cheap too, for the cost of fuel and his time. They met him at 5 a.m. at a small airstrip and waited for the sun to come up.”
“As soon as the sun broke the horizon they took off for Nashville in this plane whose prop was smaller than Treylon’s wingspan,” said Burks’ agent, J.R. Carroll, per Kuharsky. “Pilot said he slept the whole way and wasn’t the least bit nervous.”
In a surprise move, the Titans traded away star wideout A.J. Brown to the Philadelphia Eagles on day one of last year’s draft. The Titans then used the No. 18 pick (obtained from Philadelphia) on the Arkansas wideout.
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Burks was limited to 11 games last season and finished the year with 33 receptions for 444 yards and one touchdown. Of course, a season-ending ankle injury to starting quarterback Ryan Tannehill late in the year didn’t help matters for the Tennessee offense.
Tennessee is coming off its first losing campaign since the 2015 season, as well as their first non-playoff season since 2018. If Burks can stay healthy and live up to the expectations that made him a first-round pick, the Titans’ chances of bouncing back and returning to the postseason will improve drastically.
