Very few people had a rookie season like Jevon Kearse.

A First Rounder from Florida where he won the Bowl Alliance National Championship and was an SEC Defensive Player of the Year, Kearse was a beast as a rookie, winning the AP Defensive Rookie of the Year, and was also the AFC Defensive Player of the Year.  The Defensive End led the NFL in Forced Fumbles (8) and recorded 14.5 Sacks and 15 Tackles for Loss.  The sky appeared to be the limit for Kearse, but that wasn't to be.

Kearse, who was a First Team All-Pro as a rookie, was never an All=Pro again, though he was a Pro Bowler in his first three seasons, where he had double-digits in Sacks in all three years.  His production did negatively slide in those three years, and it fell when injuries took him out of 12 Games in 2002.  After a respectable 2003, Kearse left Tennessee for Philadelphia, but he would never come close to what he accomplished as a rookie.

Kearse returned to Tennessee in 2008, where he played two more seasons before retiring.  He would have 52 of his 74 Sacks as a Titan.