The challenges have come one after another for Titans rookie safety Kevin Winston Jr. this year.

It was hard enough sitting out his entire first offseason — and part of training camp — because of the ACL injury he suffered last year at Penn State.

Once he was healthy, there was still the matter of a crash course in on-field adjustments to the NFL, not to mention a crowded safety depth chart that at one point included Xavier Woods, Amani Hooker, Quandre Diggs and Mike Brown, among others.

The latest hurdle for Winston, the team’s third-round pick in April?

The Titans have been using him extensively at the slot corner position for the past two weeks, regularly employing a three-safety alignment that gives the cornerback-depleted team some relief in the secondary — but one that has also a

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