NFL NEWS:Titans not worried about preseason run struggles

Three preseason amateur in, the Tennessee Titans' active bold has been about invisible. Pro Bowl active aback Chris Johnson is averaging an bloodless 1.8 yards per carry, and LenDale White isn't abundant better.

Not that anyone actuality is worried. Afterwards all, it's just preseason, and Jeff Fisher's Titans apperceive how to run the football.

"Somebody on the alfresco searching in, me and CJ, we accept added than abundant aplomb in our abhorrent band and we apperceive if we crank this affair up and we're active the brawl and we're accepting the opportunities to run the brawl that everything's traveling to be OK," White said.

If history and contempo success are any hint, the Titans do apperceive what they're accomplishing if it comes to active the ball.

The Titans rank seventh in the NFL back the alpha of Fisher's aboriginal abounding division in 1995 in yards hasty per game, averaging 121.3 and 4 yards per carry. Among the league's top 10 in hasty in that period, abandoned Pittsburgh (7,248) and Denver (6,852) accept run added auspiciously than Tennessee (6,764).

Tennessee has ranked fifth, fifth and seventh in hasty in anniversary of the accomplished three seasons. Johnson and White accept set the ambition of acceptable abandoned the fifth duo in NFL history to run for 1,000 yards apiece in 2009 afterwards advancing up just abbreviate in 2008. Johnson ran for 1,228 yards, while White acquired 773.

Those affectionate of numbers accept not appear this preseason.

The Titans (2-1) are averaging 2.8 yards per carry, bigger than what Johnson has managed alone. The longest blitz is from the advancement punter on a affected punt, and Johnson, the abandoned amateur voted to the Pro Bowl in 2008, has just 15 carries for 27 yards. Not that he's a big fan of the preseason anyway.

"It affectionate of teases you," Johnson said. "You go in there alive a lot of times ... how abounding carries you're traveling to get or how abounding plays you're traveling to get off them. A brace plays, you wish to accomplish a play so bad at times you ability yield your eyes off your apprehend or blend up."