The Tennessee Titans are still searching for their first win of the 2026 season, but team leadership isn’t blinking on Robert Saleh.
At 0-5, Tennessee has stumbled badly out of the gate. The offense hasn’t gotten the jump the franchise wanted from quarterback Cam Ward, and the losses have piled up enough to raise obvious questions about Saleh’s future. Even so, Titans CEO Burke Nihill says the organization is standing firm behind its new head coach and the rest of the staff.
“I personally feel a sense of stability,” Tennessee CEO Burke Nihill told ESPN on Friday. “I believe that Mike Borgonzi and Robert Saleh are ultimately going to get this team out of the woods and restore it to competitive football.
The train is on the tracks. It just hasn't picked up momentum, but it will.”
Tennessee is one of three winless teams in 2026, and the record has come with a mixed bag of pain. A few of the losses were there for the taking, and the Titans left chances on the field in games that could have gone either way. But there have also been a couple of defeats where the margin was far bigger and Tennessee simply got overwhelmed.
Saleh is no stranger to the head coach’s chair. He led the New York Jets from 2021 to 2024 before being fired partway through the 2024 season. After that, he went back to the San Francisco 49ers as defensive coordinator.
Now he and the Titans get another shot to change the mood. Tennessee can pick up its first win of the season Sunday against the Indianapolis Colts.
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