Tennessee Titans' Ryan Tannehill responds to Isiah Thomas, Ja Morant critiquing his finger roll

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Tennessee Titans quarterback Ryan Tannehill got some national love for his touchdown celebration last week.

He seems to appreciate it.

“I never thought that that would be something, but it’s been fun to kind of incorporate that and it’s grown since 2019,” Tannehill said Wednesday. “Definitely a cool little feature. My wife showed it to me Sunday after the game, so I thought it was pretty cool.”

Ahead of the Titans’ Sunday Night Football showdown against the Rams, the ESPN broadcast showed a special on Tannehill’s signature finger-roll TD celebration. The nearly four-minute segment featured NBA Hall of Famer Isiah Thomas and Memphis Grizzlies star Ja Morant giving their input on the technique of Tannehill’s finger roll, used on layup attempts in basketball.

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“Oh, he got a little style with it!” Thomas exclaimed at one point. “The Tanne-roll.”

“He got the little flick going,” Morant said. “A little flare to it. He does his own little thing. … A-plus from me.”

Tannehill first broke out the celebration in 2019, when he took over as the starting quarterback that October.

“I don’t remember what game it started,” Tannehill said for an interview during the special. “It was a home game. I was running to the left and it was wide open. I just did it. I don’t know. It wasn’t something I had thought about beforehand or anything like that. It kind of just caught on and kept it rolling.”

Ben Arthur covers the Tennessee Titans for The USA TODAY Network. Contact him at barthur@gannett.com and follow him on Twitter at @benyarthur.

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