NASHVILLE, Tenn. – While Ryan Tannehill is throwing a few days a week in South Florida with Jonnu Smith, the rest of his leadership in his first offseason as a starter is coming electronically: Through texts to draft picks and in Zoom meetings in the first week of what now qualifies as OTAs.
Like everything given the restraints of the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s not ideal.
But a year ago Tannehill was learning how to sit back and be a good backup to Marcus Mariota, quieting the leadership voice he’d used in six seasons as the starter when healthy in Miami.