Titans take first look at top pick
The Tennessee Titans promise they will be patient with Vince Young. That approach started Friday when Young and 32 other rookies took the field for the first time as professionals.
Titans coach Jeff Fisher said coaches are being careful not to overload the third overall pick in last weekend?s draft with too much too quickly.
?We?ve talked about this. We want him to tell us if it?s all meshing together and if it?s too much,? Fisher said.
?We?re adding things. We?re adding things each day. We?ll add some things tonight and tomorow, and then we?ll send him home and he?ll be back on the 16th and he?ll be able to digest this and we?ll move on.?
Young led the Longhorns to the national championship as a junior at Texas last season. He said the first day was productive and an enjoyable first experience.
?It?s fun to get with your teammates and basically getting out here and learning your assignments. It?s basically learning from scratch all over again,? Young said.
Young said the playbook he was introduced to Friday is not that dissimilar to what he was used to with the Longhorns.
?But you?ve just got to put it in their terminology,? Young said. ?It?s just like a college playbook. It?s thick, but you don?t try to beat the coaches to anything. Whatever he gives you that day to study, that?s what you go study and that?s what you work on that day. You just take it page by page.?
Young had a few rookie mistakes in the afternoon session open to the media, typical of first practices _ a couple of fumbled snaps from center and wobbly pass or two. But overall, his first effort was solid.
?I thought he did a nice job with everything from the huddle, to breaking the huddle, to getting under center, the cadences, the snap counts and the concepts we have him,? Fisher said.
As for throwing the ball, Young impressed the coaches.
?This morning we threw one-on-one, and he completed four consecutive deep balls to receivers he?d never thrown to before,? Fisher said. ?That?s a good sign because he?s able to adjust and able to adjust real easily.?
Young?s new teammates, many of whom had only seen him perform on television before Friday, were already impressed.
?The ball was right there, and that?s all a receiver can ask for,? said receiver Jonathan Or, a sixth-round pick from Washington. ?I was impressed like everybody else.?