Roger McCreary

4 years, 180 tackles — a steady Titans slot CB until a 2025 mid-season trade to the Rams.

McCreary was a Day-2 slot CB pick out of Auburn in 2022 and immediately started 64 tackles as a rookie. Tennessee leaned on him as a high-volume nickel for three years before flipping him to the Rams during the 2025 season — his 28 combined tackles across both jerseys in 2025 reflect a transition year, not a fall-off.

12 tackles-for-loss in 2024 — a freakish number for a slot corner.

In 2024 McCreary logged 12 tackles-for-loss — a count that would be solid for an off-ball linebacker and is genuinely rare for a slot CB. The trade-off: his pass-deflection total cratered from 8 (rookie) and 6 (2023) to just 1 PD in 2024.

That profile — heavy run-fit, light coverage box-score — is the kind of usage shift that often precedes a positional/scheme change. The 2025 trade to LA fits that read.

Rookie-year 8 PDs were his career high — the coverage flash has dimmed every year since.

The PD line is the cleanest evidence that McCreary moved off pure outside coverage. 18 career PDs, with nearly half coming as a rookie. The 2025 bounce (3 PDs in a split season between two teams) is small but pointing the right direction.

3 career sacks as a CB — added 2 forced fumbles too, with 1 FF in his rookie year.

McCreary has 3 career sacks as a corner — 2 in 2023, 1 each in 2024 and 2025 — plus 5 career QB hits and 1 forced fumble. Slot blitzing has been part of his usage every year, peaking with the 2-sack 2023 season alongside 7 TFLs.

4 seasons in TEN, then dealt to a Super Bowl contender mid-2025.

McCreary's Titans tenure ended after 173 tackles across 3.5 seasons — the team chose to convert him into draft capital while he still had positive sample on contact production (12 TFLs in 2024). The Rams paired him with their own slot rotation; 7 tackles + 1 PD in limited LA snaps so far is the floor of his contribution, not the ceiling.