 Titans fans came to know Nick Westbrook Akina as a special teams player during the 2020 season. The undrafted rookie from Indiana played in 14 games and caught three passes as a reserve. This season, Westbrook Akina remains an important part of special teams, but he's much more of a factor of wide receiver. He's catching passes in clutch situations and throwing blocks on big touchdown runs. Westbrook Akina is on the field more in year two because he can go into the game at all three wide receiver positions, a rarity. And because he has realized that the NFL is still just football, the same game he played as a kid. That's definitely kind of how it feels, you know, it's a childhood game that you feel in love with and how to remind myself that that's how it was. And I feel like it's worked so far and hopefully it'll continue to work. I feel like the biggest thing is just, you know, confidence, knowing that I understand the offense. I understand, you know, what's asked me on special teams and just going out and playing freely and not playing so uptight. I feel like that's kind of what I struggled with last year and just, you know, kind of cutting it loose, not focusing so much on being perfect, but just doing my job to the best of my ability. Taking advantage of opportunities is what the next man up and an NFL team must do. Think about Ola Danie at Seattle where his sack of Russell Wilson in overtime set the stage for a Titans win in week two. How about Joe Jones with three special teams tackles at Jacksonville or Michael Pruitt who has made plays at tight end every time that he's gotten the chance for four years. Kendall Lamb also falls into this group. Lamb signed as a free agent this off season and has had to wait his turn in the offensive line room. But when his number was called, he came through. Kendall Lamb has the perfect next man up mentality both as a player and as a person. I go back to my rookie years and my first few years in Houston. Coach Devlin, Mike Devlin, my offensive line coach, you know, he told me a long time ago. He was like, Lamb, don't ever get caught up in being the glamour guy. He was like, you know, that might not be your role. That might not be your life. That might not be your journey. He was like, just appreciate what you do. And he said, you know, if you can go in there and do that for a long time, you can play in this league for a while. And, you know, for me, it's whether I come here and I want to start whether I come here. I'm the sixth man whether I come here and I'm the last lineman. You know, like I stated earlier, you got to be ready at the drop of a dime.