Tennessee inside linebacker Rashaan Evans played in 15 games in the 2018 NFL season, but he said he feels like a rookie at the Titans’ preseason practices.

After Tennessee made a trade with the Baltimore Ravens to move up three spots in the first round of the 2018 NFL Draft and select the former Alabama All-American with the 22nd choice, Evans suffered a hamstring injury at the first padded practice of the Titans’ training camp last year.

The injury caused Evans to miss the entire 2018 preseason, and he didn't take a defensive snap for Tennessee until the third game of the regular season.

“It is a little weird,” Evans said during an appearance on “Titans Today.” “It’s almost like I’m starting over as a rookie again because I’ve never played preseason, never been through a camp in the NFL before like this one. Everything’s kind of new. It’s kind of refreshing at the same time, so I’m just having fun with it.”

Evans played in a preseason game for the first time on Thursday night. He played eight snaps -- the Titans' first two defensive series -- in Tennessee's 27-10 victory over the Philadelphia Eagles.

Evans registered one tackle, dropping rookie running back Miles Sanders for a 1-yard loss on a second-and-9 snap from the Tennessee 49-yard line.

Two Rashaan Evans highlights from last night, back-to-back... first, he avoids the pulling guard's block by throwing his shoulder into him before tackling the running back for a two-yard loss. Next play, lined up as a 3T, he draws a hands-to-the-face penalty #TENvsPHI @616evans4 pic.twitter.com/VMX1re7bnB — Titans Film Room (@titansfilmroom) August 9, 2019

“It just gives you more of a game-like experience,” Evans said of the preseason schedule, “and for that, you really want to take full advantage of it. At the same time, none of those games count, so it’s easier for you to go out there, take a couple of chances, but at the same time, do your job. It gives you, I guess, a sense of calmness, just the fact that you’re out there literally just to get better.”

The Eagles' touchdown came on a 75-yard pass, which accounted for almost one-third of Philadelphia's 227 yards in the game. The Eagles gained 37 yards on 17 rushing attempts and completed only 15-of-33 passes with one interception.

“I wouldn’t say we were pleased,” Evans said. “I would say that we were basically satisfied just with the effort that we had out there. Obviously, we needed to clean some stuff up because we feel like our standard is to not allow any offense to score on us regardless of twos, threes, ones, whoever that’s in there.”

Evans started at inside linebacker with Jayon Brown in the preseason opener. Eleven-year veteran Wesley Woodyard, who started 14 games at inside linebacker for the Titans in 2018, came off the bench to play 10 defensive snaps against the Eagles.

In his rookie season, when he started seven games, Evans made 53 tackles while playing 47 percent of Tennessee's defensive snaps.

In his second season, Brown made nine starts, played 81 percent of the defensive snaps and registered 97 tackles in 2018.

Woodyard played 68 percent of the defensive snaps and, even though he missed two games, led Tennessee with 113 tackles last year.

The Titans’ first depth chart of the preseason listed Evans and Brown as the starters at inside linebacker, with Woodyard and former Auburn standout Daren Bates as their backups.

Tennessee will play the New England Patriots at 6 p.m. CDT Saturday in Nashville in their second preseason game.

Before entering the NFL, Evans was a first-team selection on the American Football Coaches Association's All-American squad for Alabama's CFP national-championship team in 2017. Evans joined the Crimson Tide after earning the state's Class 6A Lineman of the Year Award in 2013, his second season as an All-State defensive end for Auburn High School.

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