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Former Eagles OL Dennis Kelly scores a Big-Man TD for Titans in AFC Championship game vs. Chiefs

Dennis Kelly hauls in a TD catch from Ryan Tannehill in AFC title game

One of Howie Roseman and Chip Kelly’s previous trades is now trending on social media thanks to the Tennessee Titans getting creative on offense.

Back in 2016, the Eagles traded a talented young offensive lineman, Dennis Kelly, to the Tennessee Titans, for former All-American wide receiver Dorial Green-Beckham.

The trade at the time was viewed as a win for the Eagles, but Kelly has gone to flourish as a versatile lineman for the Titans, while Green-Beckham was out of the league shortly after the trade.

On Sunday, Kelly shined bright once again, securing this big-man touchdown catch from Titans quarterback Ryan Tannehill.

During his time with the Eagles logged 453 snaps in 2015, the sixth-highest total of any Eagles lineman, but only started just two of the 15 games he played in Philadelphia during his final season with the Birds.

Watch: Titans OT Dennis Kelly scores his second Fat Guy Touchdown of the season

For the second time this season, Titans offensive tackle Dennis Kelly scored a Fat Guy Touchdown.

Fat Guy Touchdowns! We all love them, and this season, there have now been eight instances in which a player over 300 pounds has taken the ball into the end zone. But the only player to do it twice this season is Titans offensive tackle Dennis Kelly, whose one-yard pass from Ryan Tannehill put the Titans up 17-7 on the Chiefs in the first half of the AFC Championship game.

RELATED: Every Fat Guy Touchdown scored in the 2019 season

With the Chiefs selling out against the run in the red zone, Tannehill had an easy open receiver.

At six-foot-8 and 321 pounds, Kelly became the heaviest player in NFL history to catch a touchdown pass in the postseason.

Kelly’s first touchdown came against the Jaguars in Week 12, and it made up for a previous error.

Earlier in the Titans’ 42-20 eventual win, Kelly gave up a strip-sack of Tannehill to Jacksonville pass-rusher Yannick Ngakoue, which represented the first time Tennessee hadn’t converted in the red zone since Tannehill replaced Marcus Mariota as the starter in Week 7. Kelly at least partially made up for that flub with this one-yard touchdown catch with 13:13 left in the third quarter.

This was the first of a four-touchdown barrage for the Titans in the third quarter, which put the game away. And it put the Titans as the only team on our list with two touchdown passes to the big guys.

To his credit, Kelly gave all the praise to his predecessor.

“I learned from the best,” Kelly said. “(Quessenberry’s) catch was a lot more challenging. “I’ve gone on a couple routes before here and there. But that one was the first one for this. (Offensive coordinator Arthur Smith) and I have always joked about – since I’ve been here – that he would try and get me one. So, it just happened to be it worked out well. It’s a cool feeling.”

We’ll see if the TItans can keep the creativity rolling against a Chiefs offense that has all the quick-strike capability any defense could handle.

Titans OT Dennis Kelly becomes heaviest player to catch a postseason touchdown

He’s also one of two offensive linemen to catch a touchdown pass for the Titans this season.

An offensive lineman catching a touchdown pass is strange enough in itself.

Tennessee Titans offensive tackle Dennis Kelly reeled in his second scoring reception of the season in Sunday’s AFC Championship Game matchup against the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday.

It was something historical, as the 6-foot-8, 321-pound Kelly became the heaviest player to catch a playoff touchdown pass in history.

He’s also one of two offensive linemen to catch a touchdown pass for the Titans this season. David Quessenberry was the other.

Now that’s something you tell your kids about.

The Titans lead the Chiefs, 17-14 at the bottom of the second quarter.

WATCH: Titans’ Dennis Kelly scores fat-guy touchdown

Dennis Kelly became the heaviest player to score a TD in the postseason during the AFC Championship Game.

The Tennessee Titans are full of tricks. Offensive coordinator Arthur Smith reached into his bag, again, and the underdogs scored a touchdown against the Kansas City Chiefs in the second quarter Sunday.

Ryan Tannehill found Dennis Kelly on a tackle eligible play to make it 17-7.

Kelly is the heaviest player to catch a postseason TD.

Our Doug Farrar  is the encyclopedia of fat guy TDs. He provided the update.

Here’s all seven Fat Guy Touchdowns scored in the 2019 season

More than ever in NFL history, the big guys are making it into the end zone! Here are all seven Fat Guy Touchdowns in the 2019 NFL season.

Most times, when an offensive lineman reports as eligible, opposing defenses don’t take it seriously. The 2019 NFL season is when that should change, or more defensive coordinators will be caught unaware. Because there has been a rash of Fat Guy Touchdowns scored this season — there had been six through the first 16 weeks of the season, and against the Buccaneers in Week 17, Falcons offensive coordinator Dirk Koetter dialed up this bit of magic — a 35-yard touchdown pass from Matt Ryan to offensive tackle Ty Sambrailo.

We stand in awe.

And yes, it is fair to say that the Bucs blew this coverage in all sorts of ways.

Would you like to see every Fat Guy Touchdown scored this season? Touchdown Wire has you covered there. Because, as John Madden said in The Replacements, “I love to see a fat guy score. Because first you get a fat guy spike, then you get the fat guy dance.”

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Happy Holidays! Here are all five Fat Guy Touchdowns from the 2019 season

Outside of Santa Claus, these five large dudes catching TD passes in the 2019 season have been the biggest win for jumbo guys in uniforms.

John Madden: I love to see a fat guy score.

Pat Summerall: Why?

John Madden: Because first you get a fat guy spike, then you get the fat guy dance.

That line from The Replacements has always held true. There are few things more extemporaneously joyful than when a huge dude in a football uniform scores a touchdown and gets, for a moment, the adulation usually reserved for the smaller skill-position guys. When the Bills scored a touchdown on a Josh Allen pass to 6-foot-5, 320-pound offensive tackle with one second left in the first half of Buffalo’s Week 16 tussle with the Patriots, it set a mark that hasn’t been set in a long time.

Because we know what you need at Touchdown Wire, we’re presenting all five Fat Guy Touchdowns right here.

Week 1: Ravens FB/DL Patrick Ricard

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With 7:54 left in their 59-10 thrashing of the Dolphins, the Ravens dialed up this one-yard pass from Lamar Jackson to the 6-foot-3, 311-pound Patrick Ricard. It was Jackson’s fifth passing touchdown on the day.

“It was my idea,” Harbaugh said. “My brother had his guy in San Francisco… I just thought that was a weapon, a dominant type guy, and he looked like a really good athlete. Then I asked him, he said he played it in high school, and the rest is history.”

Jim Harbaugh’s guy in San Francisco from 2011-2014 was Bruce Miller, a linebacker and defensive lineman at Central Florida who Harbaugh converted to a fullback after the 49ers took him in the seventh round of the 2011 draft. Ricard is no stranger to the end zone — the former Maine defensive lineman caught two touchdown passes in his rookie campaign of 2017, and he has eight receptions on 11 targets for 47 yards and that touchdown. Ricard has lined up all over the place for the Ravens in 2019 — 152 snaps in the backfield, 69 snaps inline, 47 in the slot, 20 as a wideout, and 134 on the defensive line.

So, if you see this play when the Ravens get their postseason going, don’t be surprised.

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Texans versus Titans will have a family feel with the Kelly brothers

The Kelly family will have two members going against each other when the Houston Texans and Tennessee Titans square off in Week 15.

There are a bevy of reasons the Houston Texans and Tennessee Titans playing each other is emotional, but none more so than for the Kelly brothers when the two sides meet Sunday at noon CT at Nissan Stadium.

While it is the seventh time the Texans and Titans have met since Tennessee signed tackle Dennis Kelly as a free agent in 2016, it is the first time Tim Kelly will be the Texans’ offensive coordinator after spending the previous five seasons as an assistant on coach Bill O’Brien’s staff.

Tim acknowledged on Thursday that he will talk to his brother later in the week, but currently he is focused on beating his brother’s team, just as Dennis is focused on beating the Texans.

“During the week, we’re both pretty focused on taking care of business,” Kelly said. “I’ll make sure I go and say hello to him before the game.”

According to their mother, approximately 60 people are expected to be in attendance for the showdown between two 8-5 clubs grappling for first place in the AFC South.

“He’s obviously paying for those tickets,” Kelly joked.

Tim intends to meet up with Dennis before the game. Once it is kickoff, Tim will be locked in on getting a big road win in Tennessee.

Nonetheless, the situation is a momentous one for the Kelly family to have two members part of a big division race in the AFC.

“It’s a pretty cool situation to be able to watch your brother play in the NFL, let alone have to prepare against him and get ready to play him,” said Kelly. “So, very proud of everything he’s accomplished and it’s definitely a pretty cool moment to be able to see him on the other sideline, that’s for sure.”

Since Dennis arrived in the AFC South, the series has been evenly split 3-3. Originally, the Philadelphia Eagles drafted Dennis with a fifth-round pick from Purdue in 2013. The combined ledger favors Dennis’ teams 4-3.