TUCKER LEAVES RIDERS FOR NFL’S TITANS

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Tennessee Titans named Dick LeBeau as Assistant Head Coach/Defense. LeBeau will be in charge of the defense and Ray Horton will work with him to implement it. Additionally, Mike Mularkey has been elevated to Assistant Head Coach/Tight Ends. Mularkey’s new role will increase his involvement with the offense in general, but specifically will increase his involvement with the run game. To complete the staff, Jason Tucker was added as the Assistant Wide Receivers coach.

Tucker joins the Titans after spending six seasons coaching wide receivers in the Canadian Football League, including the last four with Saskatchewan. In 2013, his group of receivers included three 1,000-yard receivers for only the second time in franchise history and Saskatchewan captured the Grey Cup. Tucker also brings experience as a player, spending two years (199-2000) with the Dallas Cowboys. He would have his greatest success as a player in the CFL, where he totaled 7,046 receiving yards during his seven-year career with Edmonton. He earned CFL All-Star honors four times and won two Grey Cups (2003, 2005) as a player. Tucker played his college football at TCU and was a sixth-round selection by the Cincinnati Bengals in the 1998 NFL Draft.