When Tennessee signed Dan Moore Jr. to a four-year, $82 million contract as an NFL free agent this offseason, the Titans installed him as their left offensive tackle, the position he held for the past four seasons for the Pittsburgh Steelers.

But Tennessee already had a left tackle. The Titans used the seventh pick in the 2024 NFL Draft to add JC Latham from Alabama, and he played every offensive snap at left tackle for Tennessee as a rookie.

To make way for Moore, the Titans moved Latham to right tackle, where he’s spent the offseason program getting reacclimated to the position. Latham played right tackle for the Crimson Tide in 2022 and 2023.

“I’m ecstatic to play right again,” Latham said during an appearance on SiriusXM NFL Radio’s “Moving the Chains” on Friday. “But, honestly, coming from college, (coach Nick) Saban’s main thing was: Do what you can to help the team win. Or is what you’re doing helping the team win? Taking that mindset and really just applying it, especially here, whatever the team wants me to do for success, I’m all for it.”

Moore isn’t the only addition to the line charged with protecting quarterback Cam Ward, the No. 1 pick in the 2025 NFL Draft, a selection the Titans earned with a 3-14 record in the 2024 season. Tennessee signed 13-year NFL starter Kevin Zeitler to a one-year, $9 million contract.

“Once you hit the double-digit years of playing professional sports, you’re doing something right,” Latham said of Zeitler.

The Titans will have Zeitler line up as the right guard beside Latham, who said he would “try to follow that blueprint and try to sit down and really understand how I can elevate my game to that level.”

After Zeitler joined the Tennessee, Latham discovered he’d met his new teammate before while at Catholic Memorial in Waukesha, Wisconsin.

“When I was a defensive end in high school, he held a camp for O-linemen/D-linemen actually at my high school,” Latham said. “I met him then, and I was like 14 or 15, and so many major moments in my life have happened that that camp slipped my mind. So when he officially got here, I was asking him where he was from, does he travel, all this stuff, and he told me, ‘Yeah, I was from Waukesha.’ Waukesha is not like a tourist attraction. It’s not some place where people go to like Miami or Atlanta. I told him the school I went to in high school was in Waukesha, and that’s what brought that memory back up again.

“He said, ‘I remember hosting you at a camp that I hosted probably six or seven years ago.’ So a full-circle moment and kind of funny. Real funny, actually.”

More familiar to Latham is Houston Texan defensive end Will Anderson Jr. A two-time unanimous All-American at Alabama, Anderson won the NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year Award in 2023, then increased his sack total by 6.5 in his second season.

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Considering Anderson’s accolades, Latham said it’s hard to believe how much better his former teammate has gotten since entering the NFL.

“He’s really building a feel for the game and how it’s supposed to be played,” Latham said. “And he’s always sharpening his tools. I thought he was really good last year, and, just following him on Instagram, he’s working out with Myles Garrett, who’s a future Hall of Famer, so that’s only going to make him even better. That guy’s definitely probably the best defensive player I played in my rookie year.”

The Titans and Texans tangle in AFC South games on Sept. 28 and Nov. 16 in the 2025 NFL season. Currently on summer break, Tennessee players will report for training camp on July 22. The Titans’ three-game preseason schedule starts on Aug. 9 against the Minnesota Vikings.

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