Running back Chris Johnson is under contract for 2014 with the Titans -- for now. He's due to make $8 million, an amount the team might not pay. And Johnson would be fine with it if it meant going to a team that would use him the right way.
"I feel like if they are not going to use me the way I am supposed to be used and let me be the horse, then I would rather them let me move on," Johnson told The Tennessean. "Their money would be wasted on me. ... [I]f they are not going to use me right, let somebody get me that's going to use me the right way."
Johnson was paid $10 million in 2013 and posted his second-worst rushing numbers with 1,077 yards. He has not requested a trade and promised that if he did come back to the team in 2014 that he would work hard.
"... I love Tennessee and would love to be in Tennessee. But I feel like I am wasting the prime years of my career if I am not used right. ... I am not a coach, and I am not a GM. But if I am paying a player to make him the top-paid guy on the team, there is no way in critical situations that he is going to be on the sideline. Around the goal line, I'd come out. I want to help the team win. People say, 'He is not worth the $10 million, he is not worth the $8 million.' I feel like if you give me $8 million, let me earn it. At crucial times of the game, I shouldn't be on the sideline watching."