The Tennessee Titans are headed into training camp with a much cleaner situation at cornerback than they’ve had the past two summers.
That’s because the biggest source of uncertainty is gone: L’Jarius Sneed. For two straight training camps, the Titans had to manage a high-priced cornerback with a chronic knee issue hanging over everything.
They expected him to be available once the season started. Instead, the injuries kept winning.
Sneed missed 65% of his games over his two years in Tennessee, and the team never really got the dependable return it was banking on. He told the Titans he’d be ready to open 2024, and they had every reason to believe him after he had missed only three games over his previous three seasons with the Kansas City Chiefs. But that season went sideways, and what kept him out then wasn’t even the knee - it was a freak quad injury that never healed properly.
The Titans rolled the dice again in 2025, trusting that he’d get on the field. Instead, the lower-body issues kept piling up until he missed the rest of the season. Across both years, Tennessee could point to the possibility of meaningful snaps, but the reality was brutal: Sneed played just 12 games for the Titans, the same number as first-round bust Caleb Farley.
Injuries are part of the NFL, and Titans fans know training camp always comes with some level of concern. But there’s a big difference between dealing with the usual bumps and bruises and tying major draft capital and cap space to a player who keeps ending up in the worst-case scenario.
The good news for Tennessee is that the roster looks stronger at the top and deeper overall now, which should help keep this kind of problem from landing on them again. That alone should make camp a lot easier to navigate this time around.
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