Mason Rudolph has no advantage in his first start

“Even though he's a veteran, there were definitely some examples, especially on third down,” Titans offensive coordinator Nick Holz said Thursday. “Those first few third downs, those are exactly the reps that Mason did in practice and carried over to the game.”

“As the game went on, you saw that with 60 or 70 plays on the call sheet, he didn't have as many plays on some of them. Some of them were game plan looks against Buffalo, and he didn't have that.” “I got them all full speed because you can't get them all. As the game went on in the third and fourth quarters, you definitely saw he didn’t get those reps.”

That shouldn't be a problem this week. The Titans are treating Rudolph as if he were the starter for Sunday's game against the Detroit Lions. Will Levis is on the practice field, but instead of getting a lot of reps like he did before last week's game, he's barely throwing the football.