Treylon Burks, player that the Pittsburgh Steelers might’ve been looking at in the wide receiver trade market, thanks to another player’s injury on his team.
The Tennessee Titans buried former first-round draft pick Treylon Burks on their depth chart this offseason, when the club added free agents Calvin Ridley and Tyler Boyd to their incumbent wide receiver group. That moved Burks from what had been a starting role, down to fifth on the depth chart, and had coach Brian Callahan talking about using him to cover kickoffs.
That kicked off speculation that the Titans could look to trade Burks, and the wide receiver-needy Steelers certainly would be at or near the top of the list to acquire the talented but so-far unproductive former Arkansas star.
However, some news that broken on Thursday might throw that all out the window. Titans star receiver DeAndre Hopkins is expected to miss a month and a half with a strained knee, according to Titans reporter Paul Kuharsky.
That firmly puts Hopkins’s status for the Titans’s season opener on Sept. 8 against the Chicago Bears in doubt, and would make it hard for general manager Ran Carthon to trade away from his wide receivers depth in the meantime.
Burks was supposed to be the Titans’ replacement for A.J. Brown when Brown was traded to the Philadelphia Eagles in 2022. But the No. 18 overall pick that year out of Arkansas has not lived up to his billing so far. In two seasons, he has 49 catches for 665 yards and just one touchdown. He has two more years under contract and a fifth-year option for 2026 remaining.
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