Will Levis spent another training camp rep trying to shake off the kind of moment that has followed him around too often in his NFL career, and this one quickly made the rounds online.
In an open inter-squad scrimmage at Nissan Stadium in Nashville, the Tennessee Titans quarterback was under pressure from the pass rush, rolled to his right and tried to create something out of nothing. Instead, defenders closed in on him, Levis tried to back peddle and extend the play, and he lost his footing and slipped to the turf. He then threw the ball into the ground for an incomplete pass, with audible groans and laughter heard around the stadium.
It came just days after Levis said, “not 32 quarterbacks in this league better than me,” a comment that now sits awkwardly beside another rough clip.
The play is only the latest entry in a long string of public misfires for Levis. The Connecticut native came out of five years at Penn State and Kentucky projected as a first-round pick in the 2023 NFL Draft, only to watch himself slide down the board while cameras caught him and his then-girlfriend Gia Duddy sitting in shock on a green room couch. The Titans eventually took him with the first pick of the second round the next day.
Levis got his first NFL start in October 2023 and made it count, throwing four touchdowns in a win. He has not matched that performance since. In 21 career games, he has thrown for 3,899 yards, completed 61 percent of his passes and totaled 21 touchdowns against 16 interceptions.
His second season was rough from the jump. He opened the year as the Week 1 starter, struggled through the season and eventually lost the job to Mason Rudolph.
He finished with 2,091 yards, 13 touchdowns and 12 interceptions. Along the way, he became a frequent target for mockery, from his blunders to his meme-ready reactions, including the viral image of him dropping to his knees after an interception.
Levis also missed the entire 2025 season because of injury and is now listed as the third-string quarterback behind starter Cam Ward and veteran backup Mitch Trubisky.
Off the field, Levis has dealt with another public headache. A sex tape featuring him and Duddy was leaked in May of 2024, and his mother, Beth Levis, said in a May interview on the Ross Tucker Football Podcast that her son spent a large sum of money trying to figure out who was behind it.
“It really hurt Will because he knew this was going to be something that probably a lot of people would see and it's not meant for anybody else's eyes, other than perhaps he and his girlfriend,” Beth said.
She also pushed back on online speculation that Levis or Duddy had leaked it themselves after the pair split in September 2023.
“There was conjecture that this video was leaked on purpose by my son or his girlfriend at the time which was not the case at all,” she said.
“Will actually ended up engaging in hiring a cyber security specialist and private investigator, spent an exorbitant amount of money to try and get to the bottom of this. It's amazing you can even do this, it's crazy these people are even available.”
Those investigators ultimately found that Levis had been hacked by criminals thousands of miles away.
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