Malcolm Butler and Tye Smith shine as starting cornerbacks

Reinhold Matay-USA TODAY Sports It sure was nice to see a pair of Titans cornerbacks playing tight, physical coverage on what felt like a snap-by-snap basis. That’s not something we’ve seen often this season. That’s right, the team’s 31-10 victory over Jacksonville had more than just exciting bursts of offense.

Malcom Butler is the first cornerback that deserves a paragraph. He shadowed stud receiver D.J. Chark for the majority of this game and absolutely shut him down. Chark finished the game with just two catches for 16 yards on nine targets. Butler played tight, physical coverage on Chark all day long. Chark is a speedy receiver so it was especially impressive to see Butler make such…