One rookie played every offensive snap for his team during the 2024 NFL season – JC Latham, who lined up 1,094 times at left tackle for the Tennessee Titans.

The Titans concluded a 3-14 season with a 23-14 loss to the Houston Texans on Sunday, a little more than eight months after Tennessee selected Latham from Alabama with the seventh choice in the NFL Draft.

“It was definitely a long, long season,” Latham said. “Went by fast but took the bear of the worst end of it with our record. And, I mean, we don’t have nobody else to blame but ourselves. But we got punched in the mouth a lot. And guys are going to re-evaluate ourselves to see what happens with — I’m not saying we didn’t work hard. I think we worked our asses off. I know we worked our asses off. I know we put in tons of hours in trying to figure out what to do to be great, what to do to bounce back, what to do to be better.

“And at the end of the day, I know guys are going realize, like: Hey, OK, if that amount of effort has us at 3-12 or 3-15 — whatever the record was — how much more do we need to get over that hump to be the team we know we can be? So I know we’re going to go back and we’re not going to settle with the — we’re not going to do the same work that we did last year. We’re going to improve on it and do more to get more.”

Latham was the among the six rookies to start 17 games in 2024 and the nine NFL players who played every offensive snap this season.

The latter list included Tennessee left guard Peter Skoronski, and Titans coach Brian Callahan said about the offensive line during his postseason press conference on Monday: “From the center left, I feel really good about it.”

Callahan said this offseason would be “a really big opportunity for JC to continue to improve.”

“I thought he played really well over the course of the season,” Callahan said, “and it’s a really important offseason for him to really take that next step and be the caliber of player I think he’s capable of.”

Latham said he thought he “established myself as a guy who can basically become an eraser” against top pass-rushers. But he’s looking at the offseason the same way as the Titans coach.

“My goal is to improve my conditioning to an elite level to be able to dominate the game for 60 minutes, among a whole bunch of other things,” Latham said. “So as soon as I leave here, I’ll get on the phone with my coach and I’ve already started to plan on what I feel like I need to do to be better. And I’ll get his input because he’s with me every day. And then I’ll go see my trainers and staff and make a plan and get to work on tomorrow.”

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Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on X at @AMarkG1.