On the first drive of the second half in the Tennessee Titans’ Week 10 win over the Kansas City Chiefs, left tackle Taylor Lewan committed a dumb penalty that hurt his team — and rookie wide receiver A.J. Brown let him know about it.
Lewan pushed a Chiefs player after the whistle had blown following a three-yard run by running back Derrick Henry, which drew a flag for unnecessary roughness. Dumb doesn’t begin to describe Lewan’s actions, and the penalty was the first of two that helped kill the drive.
In between Titans fans’ understandable outrage, eye-rolling and moaning and groaning over Lewan’s penalty, they might have missed something special that happened: Brown, who is a rookie, went up to the star left tackle and let him know his selfish actions were not OK.