 Wide receiver Mason Kenzie first came to the Titans as an undrafted free agent following the 2020 NFL Draft and for all but a short stint with the Patriots he spent the last four seasons on the Titans practice squad. We wanted to tell you the story of Mason's relentless drive and his love for the game as a four-year practice squad member and we hope we were able to do that but last Friday when we spoke with Mason there was a surprise that improved the story. Mason Kenzie is this week's Epic Western Spotlight. Do any of your friends ever ask you after four years why are you still doing this? Yeah I mean I've played in four or five games in my career so but for me it's more about just being able to play the game that I love. I love playing football it's a dream I've had since I was a little kid and I think a little bit of that excitement every week is not knowing when you're gonna get called up you know so every week is a new opportunity and again I get to play the sport that I love. I'm around a great group of guys and I love my job so I love coming to work every day so that makes it easy. Bring some juice let's go let's go. Make some place. Make some place. Have there been moments where you've said it's time to go get a real job? When I left here after my rookie year I went to New England for a little while there was there was some doubt. I was just in a new place new area it was a lot different than what I was used to being in here for a camp so I thought about it for half a second but you know the like I said I love playing ball and I couldn't imagine myself doing anything else. Dude my mind lives in a concentrated practice. You're wearing your number today most weeks you're wearing somebody else's number you're an actor you're portraying one of the other team's best receivers who's been your favorite guy to portray in practice as you get the defense ready for a game? I always joke around with the guy that run the scout team I'm like hey put me in the jersey of the guy that gets the most targets because you know that's what makes playing receiver fun is catching the ball so week to week it's different I wouldn't say I have a favorite guy but whoever gets a lot of targets always makes practice a little bit more fun. Do the defensive backs hate you? Oh they know I'm gonna I'm gonna try and make them work every day. I joke around with them and you know we give each other a hard time all the time but that's you know that's what I'm here for I'm here to make their job hard so when it comes comes time to play on Sunday it's easy. So I want to ask you about your interaction with Deandre Hopkins. You spent a lot of time talking to DeHop. What's that like? Yeah I mean he's a guy that's had a lot of success in this league he's been a mentor for everybody in our in our room and anytime you can pick a guy's brain like that is an opportunity to add something to your toolbox because he's seen everything so he's been an awesome addition to our team an awesome addition to our room and I love working with them. So as we started to put together this feature idea we didn't know that you were gonna get called up this week yeah but you are playing on Sunday against the Houston Texans for you when these moments come what does it feel like? Yeah I mean every opportunity I get to suit up is a blessing and I try and like I said take a game by game but for me every time I get to suit up it's like the Super Bowl you know because I love to play football that's what it's all about I love to go out there and help the team any way that I can so I'm super excited I got like 14 tickets for the game on Sunday so a lot of my family's gonna be here my girlfriend's family's gonna be in town so I'm super excited. Every day in this building's a blessing every day in this league is a blessing and not a lot of people get to do it so I try and take it one day at a time and just remember I'm living out my dream every day. 25 year old graduate of Berry College in Rome, Georgia he was on a work study there had to pay his own way through school at a very expensive and a very outstanding school by the way he's a guy who's very well liked all around Ascension State Thomas. Yeah not only liked he's respected you know I mean the guys respect him for how hard he works and the grind and how he prepares and how he shows up every day to work and you know he's got a great spirit about him a great energy he's been great for us in practice and every time we've asked him to you know to come up to the roster he's fulfilled a role and you know we just I like seeing Mason every day. Four-pot returns for 17 yards against the Texans on Sunday not flashy stats but man he saved you a lot of field position catching some and then we knew that that that cam was going to be able to bang them and there was going to be some short ones and I know Mason you know would have liked to have been able to have that one that hit on the 20 that got down inside the four but he did get us you know he was trying to field punts and and we you know at the end there where we had the penalty I thought that was another great example unfortunately you know we got it back inside the 50 and you know just things in work out from the penalty standpoint.