page_title: Marcus Mariota
section_title: 2019 season
hierarchical_section_title: Marcus Mariota / Professional career / Tennessee Titans / 2019 season
caption_attribution_description: English: Marcus Mariota in 2020. Image from video Derrick Henry's Jump Pass TD | Touchdown Tuesday, ~ 00:00.
context_page_description: Marcus Ardel Taulauniu Mariota is an American football quarterback for the Las Vegas Raiders of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Tennessee Titans second overall in the 2015 NFL Draft. He played college football at Oregon, where he was the starting quarterback from 2012 to 2014. As a Junior in 2014, Mariota became the first University of Oregon player, as well as the first Hawaii-born athlete, to win the Heisman Trophy.
  Beginning with his second season as starting quarterback for the Titans, who had only won five games in the previous two seasons, he led the team to three consecutive winning seasons, their most since the team was known as the Houston Oilers.
context_section_description: In the season-opener against the Cleveland Browns, Mariota threw for 248 yards and three touchdowns as the Titans won by a score of 43-13. During Week 4 against the Atlanta Falcons, he threw for 227 yards and three touchdowns in the 24-10 road victory. During a 16-0 Week 6 road loss to the Denver Broncos, Mariota was benched in the third quarter in favor of Ryan Tannehill with the Titans trailing 13-0 after he threw for 63 yards and two interceptions. The following week against the Los Angeles Chargers, Tannehill was named the starter, with Mariota serving as the backup. He remained the backup for the rest of the season. In the regular-season finale, a 35-14 road victory over the Houston Texans, Mariota came in to throw a single pass. The 24-yard connection to rookie A. J. Brown put Brown over 1,000 receiving yards on the season.
  In the Wild Card round against the New England Patriots, Mariota completed a four-yard pass to MyCole Pruitt during the first quarter of the 20-13 road victory. Two weeks later in the AFC Championship Game against the Kansas City Chiefs, he came in during the second quarter and had a five-yard rush. The Titans went on to lose on the road by a score of 35-24.
  In the offseason, prior to the start of free agency, the Titans signed Tannehill to a long-term extension, signaling the end of Mariota's five-year tenure in Tennessee.
caption: Mariota in the AFC Divisional Round of the playoffs against the Ravens in Baltimore
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