If it wasn’t for Kevin Byard’s two interceptions against Jacksonville Jaguars in Week 17, there’s a good chance the Tennessee Titans wouldn’t be meeting the New England Patriots in the divisional round on Saturday night.
Odds are, the Titans wouldn’t have finished the regular season at 9-7, wouldn’t have made the playoffs for the first time since 2008, and wouldn’t have had the opportunity to upend the Kansas City Chiefs on wild-card weekend.
But Byard, Tennessee’s first-team All-Pro safety and the NFL’s co-leader in interceptions, picked off Jaguars quarterback Blake Bortles on the third-and-9 to begin the fourth quarter of that Dec.