"The good news for the Titans is they have money to spend heading into free agency in March. They're about $30 million under the salary cap.

The bad news is 17 of their own players are scheduled to be unrestricted free agents, and plenty of holes need to be filled.

So where will the money go? Will they pay up to sign a big-name free agent?

The answers remain to be seen, but it's a safe bet that the Titans won't write a check for anyone like they did for Chris Johnson last year, when the running back was given a $53.5 million extension.

That contract made Johnson the highest-paid Titan by a wide margin.

The Tennessean's version of Titans Moneyball looks at the highest-paid players and best values for 2012, plus an analysis of the most overpaid and underpaid players of this past season."