Tennessee Titans

Titans head coach Robert Saleh is set to have one of his former Jets players join him in Tennessee.

According to multiple reports, the Jets have agreed to trade edge rusher Jermaine Johnson to the Titans. The Titans will send defensive tackle T’Vondre Sweat back to the Jets once the trade can become official on the first day of the new league year.

Johnson was a Jets first-round pick in 2022 and Saleh was the team’s head coach at the time. He had 10 sacks over his first two seasons, but tore his Achilles two games into the 2024 season. He returned to record 43 tackles and three sacks last season.

The Jets picked up Johnson’s option for 2026, which leaves him set to make $13.411 million this year.

Sweat was a 2024 second-round pick in Tennessee. He has 85 tackles, three sacks, a forced fumble and a fumble recovery in 29 career games.

The Titans have moved on from a pair of players on Wednesday.

Tennessee announced the club has released center Lloyd Cushenberry and safety Xavier Woods.

Cushenberry was released with a failed physical designation.

Cushenberry, 28, had two years remaining on the four-year contract he signed with Tennessee in the 2024 offseason. A third-round pick in 2020, he spent his first four seasons with Denver.

Woods, 30, appeared in 11 games with 10 starts for Tennessee last season, recording a pair of interceptions and a sack. He’s played 134 games for Dallas, Minnesota, Carolina, and Tennessee since being selected in the sixth round of the 2017 draft. Woods signed a two-year contract with the Titans last offseason.

Titans General Manager Mike Borgonzi wasn’t on the job when left guard Peter Skoronski was drafted in the first round in 2023, but he’d like to keep the three-year vet on the roster for a while.

Skoronski has started all 48 games he’s played since joining the Titans and Borgonzi told reporters at a Wednesday press conference from the Scouting Combine that the team would like to secure his rights for years to come.

“We always try to secure our best players early,” Borgonzi said. “And that is obviously a tool, an option we can use. But our goal is to get something done with Peter. . . . With Peter, he is one of our better players and we’d like him here long-term. The fifth-year option is always a tool, a mechanism, you can use. But we are going to work to try and get something done with Peter.”

If the Titans do exercise their fifth-year option on Skoronski’s contract, his salary — which is projected to be over $20 million — for the 2027 season will be fully guaranteed. That number will likely figure into any negotiations that go on regarding a longer deal in Nashville.

One of the hot topics on Tuesday at the Scouting Combine was the future of Eagles receiver A.J. Brown. And while the Eagles are saying all the right things regarding Brown’s future in Philly, odds as to his next team have emerged.

At DraftKings, the current favorites are the Eagles, at -130.

Next on the list is the Patriots, at +275. The Chargers land at +750, with the Bills at +900.

A return to the Titans is a +1000 bet. The Raiders are +1400, with the 49ers, Dolphins, and Ravens at +1600.

Eagles G.M. Howie Roseman made it clear that they’ll listen to any team that makes any offers about Brown or any other player. The question is whether another team will make the Eagles an offer they won’t refuse.

The Titans will have a new head coach in 2026 and it appears they will have a new look on the field as well.

A post to the team’s X.com account shows a patch of fabric with three stars on it alongside the date March 12, which suggests that will be when the Titans reveal a change to their uniforms and/or logo next month. Billboards have gone up in Nashville with the same image and both come after a picture of merchandise with a new logo was leaked earlier this month.

Hall of Fame quarterback Warren Moon said before the 2025 season that the Titans would have new uniforms coming. That did not happen last season, but it appears that Moon may have been a little ahead of the game.

We’ll find out what tweaks the Titans have made to their appearance in a few weeks.

Jon Robinson, who was fired as the Titans’ General Manager in 2022, has found his first job since then.

The Dolphins hired Robinson as their new Senior Personnel Executive, according to NFL Network.

Robinson will work under new Dolphins General Manager Jon-Eric Sullivan. The two have not previously worked together.

The 50-year-old Robinson worked in the personnel departments of the Patriots and Buccaneers before getting hired as Titans GM in 2016. The Titans had immediate success under Robinson, improving from 3-13 to 9-7 and having six consecutive winning seasons, but Robinson’s decision to trade star wide receiver A.J. Brown and draft wide receiver Treylon Burks with the first-round pick the Titans got for Brown has gone down as one of the NFL’s worst recent personnel decisions.

The Dolphins will hope Robinson can be part of a turnaround in Miami in 2026 like the one he helped engineer in Tennessee in 2016 — and that it won’t end like it did with the Titans.

Cam Ward has begun his offseason training, but he has yet to throw.

Ward, who injured his right shoulder in a season-ending loss to the Jaguars, will resume throwing in 2-3 weeks, Cameron Wolfe of NFL Media reports.

Ward was diagnosed with an AC joint sprain that did not require surgery, and Wolfe reports that Ward is “recovering well.”

The No. 1 overall pick in 2025 is working on his mechanics with his private quarterbacks coach, Darrell Colbert Jr. According to Wolfe, Ward is trying to eliminate some of the “bad habits” he developed last year with the team’s protection issues.

Ward started all 17 games and finished the season with a 60 percent completion percentage, 3,169 yards and 15 touchdowns with five interceptions. He did not throw a pick in any of his final four starts and only one in his last nine starts.

The Titans announced a final addition to defensive coordinator Robert Saleh’s coaching staff on Friday.

Assistant defensive line coach Tanzel Smart has joined the staff. Smart played for Saleh with the Jets and spent the 2025 season on the Cowboys’ staff.

The Titans retained assistant head coach/special teams coordinator John Fassell, senior defensive assistant Ben Bloom, offensive assistant Trevor Browder, running backs coach Randy Jordan, defensive pass game coordinator/cornerbacks coach Tony Oden, assistant special teams coach Rayna Stewart, and tight ends coach Luke Stocker from last year’s staff.

Offensive coordinator Brian Daboll, defensive coordinator Gus Bradley, linebackers coach Dave Borgonzi, offensive line coach Carmen Bricillo, defensive backs/nickels coach Dalton Hilliard, offensive assistant/game management coach Cade Knox, wide receivers coach Greg Lewis, defensive backs/safeties coach Marquand Manuel, offensive assistant John Rudnicki, defensive assistant Ahmed Saleh, quarterbacks coach Shea Tierney, defensive run game coordinator/defensive line coach Aaron Whitecotton, assistant offensive line coach Isaac Williams and chief of staff Rob Dadona are the other new faces in Tennessee.

As the Tennessee Titans move toward opening a new stadium, they could end up with another new look.

Fanatics recently posted an image of a plush football with what appears to be a possible new Titans logo. The folks at the TicTacTitans Twitter page preserved it before it was deleted.

The revised logo goes with a more basic “T”, no flames, and a lighter blue.

The Titans had no comment on the situation to the Tennesseean.

Previously known as the Oilers, both before and after the move from Houston, the franchise changed its name to the Titans in 1999.

They’ve undergone various tweaks to their uniform and helmet. Currently, the base helmet is dark blue.

The Titans are due to open a new stadium in 2027.

Four years ago, Malik Willis was favored to be the first quarterback in the draft. He wasn’t.

At pick No. 86, Willis went third among all quarterbacks, behind Kenny Pickett and Desmond Ridder.

It never really clicked for Willis in Tennessee, and he became expendable after two seasons. The Packers obtained Willis for a seventh-round pick not long before the start of the 2024 season.

While he has been the clear No. 2 to Jordan Love for the last two years, Willis has made the most of his limited opportunities.

In 11 appearances with four starts for the Packers, Willis completed 70 of 89 passes (78.6 percent) for 972 yards (10.92 yards per attempt), six touchdowns, and no interceptions. His passer rating was 134.64. He also has 261 rushing yards on 42 attempts (6.2 yards per carry) for three touchdowns.

Yes, the sample size is small. But, yes, the impact has been significant.

And he’s less than three weeks away from free agency.

Where he goes, and what he’ll get, becomes one of the more intriguing questions of free agency. The coming class of free-agent quarterbacks is headlined by Aaron Rodgers and Daniel Jones. One is 42, and the other is recovering from a torn Achilles tendon. Both are generally expected to return to their current teams (Steelers and Colts, respectively).

Other current free-agent options for quarterback-needy teams include Russell Wilson, Marcus Mariota, Joe Flacco, Tyrod Taylor, Pickett, Zack Wilson, and Jimmy Garoppolo.

The Kirk Cousins contract adjustment from January guarantees he’ll be cut on March 11 or 12, so he’s essentially a free agent. Kyler Murray and Tua Tagovailoa likely will be released, unless a trade can be worked out for either or both. The Jets also could move on from Justin Fields. And Mac Jones looms as a potential trade option, if the 49ers are willing to move him. (They say they’re not, but ‘tis the season for posturing.)

Then there’s Geno Smith, who already has $18.5 million fully guaranteed from the Raiders in 2026, with the remaining $8 million vesting on the third day of the 2026 league year. He could be available for trade, or he could be cut. (The Raiders also could keep him as the bridge to Fernando Mendoza, if they make him the first overall pick in the draft.)

Willis’s numbers are undeniable. Is he ready to be a full-time starter? And is a team ready to give him a starter-level contract?

As starter-level contracts go, the range is broad. The market tops, generally speaking, at $60 million per year. The bottom of the veteran starter market, as of last year, was $10.5 million for Russell Wilson (who started only three games). Fields has a $20 million average, and he received $30 million guaranteed on a two-year deal. (Fields also was eventually benched, after being publicly bad-mouthed by his thin-skinned owner.)

Sam Darnold, with only one viable suitor, received $33.5 million per year on a three-year deal from Seattle, which has quickly proven to be a steal. (In hindsight, he should have signed a one-year deal, like Jones did in Indy. With no other options, however, it wouldn’t have been easy to insist on a one-year commitment.)

Where will Willis fit? Much of it depends on the number of teams that pursue him. The Dolphins, who are now run by a pair of former Packers employees, are a team to watch — if they can wedge Willis’s contract into the cap wreckage of the Tua contract. The Cardinals, where Packers coach Matt LaFleur’s brother, Mike, is now the head coach, could make sense, too.

The Steelers could be an option, but they seem to be content to wait for Rodgers to make a decision. Which would take them out of play in the early days of free agency. The Vikings will be looking for a veteran to compete with J.J. McCarthy.

And don’t rule out the Ravens. If (and it’s not a big if but it’s still on the radar screen) they trade Lamar Jackson, they’ll need a quarterback, too.

Other teams that will or at least could be looking for a veteran quarterback include the Jets, Browns, Colts (if Jones leaves), and Falcons.

Someone surely will want Willis. The more teams that want him, the more money he’ll make.

The process will accelerate next week in Indianapolis, where every team will meet with every agent who represents every looming free agent in an annual swap meet of untraceable tampering that happens with no electronic footprints or popcorn trail.

Our guess is that Willis will land between $20 million and $30 million per year — unless a land rush emerges. If that happens, who knows? $35 million? $40 million? (While $40 million sounds like a lot, it’s still only 66.6 percent of the current market limit.)

Or maybe Willis will have the leverage and willingness to insist on a one-year deal that pays him a relatively modest salary but gives him another shot at free agency in 2027. (A no-tag clause would be even better, if not virtually impossible to finagle on a one-year deal.)

However it goes, it’s a story that isn’t getting the kind of attention it should, or that it will once teams start jostling for a chance to see whether Willis can do on a full-time basis what he did as a part-timer for the Packers.

His numbers suggest that he could be not just a capable starter but a potential superstar. With true franchise quarterbacks so hard to find, why wouldn’t someone roll the dice on the possibility of landing a player who could become one of the best quarterbacks in the league?