Moulds excited about opportunity to play with Young

‘To get the opportunity to play with Vince Young, who’s an up-and-coming quarterback who’s going to develop into one of the better quarterbacks in this league, I just want to come in and give him another target to make plays for him,’ Moulds said Friday.

‘I just wanted an opportunity. Coach (Jeff) Fisher gave me the opportunity, and I’m going to try to make the most of it.’

Moulds was released in February by the Houston Texans. He turned 34 last week, but he immediately ranks as the Titans’ most experienced receiver with 732 catches for 9,653 yards and 49 touchdowns in his career.

Moulds knows only too well how upset Houston fans are about the Texans drafting defensive end Mario Williams last year and passing on Young, the native son who took his revenge by beating the Texans twice as a rookie.

Young singlehandedly beat the Texans by running for a 39-yard touchdown in overtime in December, and Moulds said the Texans had worked hard on defense to stop Young from running on them.

‘Now that he has won rookie of the year, I think that maybe they second-guessed themselves a little bit. We’ll see down the road how great Vince is and how good Mario is, and then we can make those comparisons,’ Moulds said.

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REPORTING: The Titans opened camp Friday morning with conditioning tests, and coach Jeff Fisher said his players looked like they worked well during their brief time off.

‘I was very, very pleased with the reporting weights and with the conditioning tests this morning. We didn’t have any issues and obviously everyone took to heart what was important over the last few weeks,’ Fisher said.

That would include running back LenDale White. He worked with the first-team offense Friday even though the Titans plan to rotate him with Chris Brown and rookie Chris Henry to decide who starts.

White said he came into camp at the weight he wanted: 241 pounds.

‘I’m happy I’m getting this opportunity where I can go out today and prove something to everybody,’ White said.

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NEW RULES: The Titans are back home for training camp. That doesn’t mean they’re finding the same rules in place as in the past.

In previous years, any Titans not in their first year had the option of commuting from home. Now only Titans with more than four years’ experience are allowed the choice of staying in the team hotel or sleeping in their own bed.

‘That is really the only difference,’ coach Jeff Fisher said. ‘We won’t have the entire team under lock and key.’

Of the 87 players on the roster, the Titans have only 24 who can make that choice. Veteran Eric Moulds, signed on Wednesday, likely won’t have time to look for an apartment during training camp.

Fisher said he had a number of players jokingly ask if they would be going back to Austin Peay State University in Clarksville after spending the first two weeks there in 2006.

‘If they don’t want to go back, that’s good because they are isolated, they buckle down and you’re doing nothing but football,’ he said.