The Tennessee Titans made just about as good of an addition as a team can after cutdown day when they signed former Chicago Bears edge rusher, Trevis Gipson.
The 26-year-old has shown plenty of promise over his first three seasons in the NFL, which include a seven-sack campaign in 2021.
It’s true that his sack numbers dipped in 2022, but that has been attributed to a poor scheme fit in Chicago, where the Bears switched from a 3-4 to a 4-3 under new head coach, Matt Eberflus. It also didn’t help that Gipson was among the most double-teamed edge rushers in the NFL.
Titans fans got a firsthand look at what he’s capable of in preseason Week 1, when Gipson was a monster, totaling eight pressures and a sack in the Chicago victory.
Gipson didn’t want to talk about that performance when speaking to the media for the first time on Wednesday out of respect for his teammates. However, he did talk about his transition process to a new team.
“Learning the playbook, get acclimated to my teammates, learning them, how they pass-rush, how they play football, and just really getting accustomed to the environment and their style of football, their style of play,” he said, per ESPN’s Turron Davenport.
When asked about the scheme in Tennessee, which is similar to the one he thrived in with the Bears in 2021, Gipson said he’s “excited” to see how it translates for him in 2023.
“The way that they play football here, they let their guys go, they let them rush and play off each other,” Gipson explained. “I’m excited to be back in this type of scheme and anxious to see what it brings to my season this year.”
Gipson went on to praise his position coaches, saying that what they’re preaching shows up in the players on the practice field.
“Get-off, physicality, violence, that’s what they preach a lot,” he said. “Just playing fast. Effort is a big thing here, also. I feel like that transmits through the whole locker room and, especially being out in practice the first day on Monday, it definitely showed itself.”
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