NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Actor Reese Witherspoon and Tennessee Titans running back Derrick Henry have joined the ownership group of Major League Soccer's Nashville team ahead of the opening Sunday of Geodis Park, its 30,000-seat stadium.
26. TENNESSEE TITANS (12-6)
LAST SEASON: The Titans earned the No. 1 seed in the AFC despite using an NFL-high 91 players, most ever in a non-strike season, because of injuries. RB Derrick Henry missed the final nine games with a broken right foot.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee Titans had the No. 1 seed and home-field advantage along with Derrick Henry making a return just in time for the postseason.
Once again, playing in Music City just wasn't enough for this franchise.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee Titans have survived using more players than any NFL team in a non-strike season and still earned the AFC's No. 1 seed.
They're as rested and healthy as they've been all season, and now they have back Derrick Henry, the NFL's top rusher in 2019 and 2020, for the postseason.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee Titans will have Derrick Henry on the field for their AFC divisional game with Cincinnati after moving the NFL's 2019 and 2020 rushing leader from injured reserve to the active roster.
CINCINNATI (AP) — If Tennessee Titans running back Derrick Henry returns for the playoffs Saturday, he'll be running into a Cincinnati Bengals defensive line that is already banged up.
The Bengals had been relatively healthy until last week in the first-round playoff win over the Las Vegas Raiders.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Derrick Henry, the man who literally ran the Tennessee Titans to the AFC championship game two years ago, is ready to play again.
No team ever needed a first-round bye in the playoffs more than the Tennessee Titans, who used a record 91 players this season, most ever in a non-strike season.
The Titans (12-5) edged perennial power Kansas City (12-5) for the top seed and the lone bye in the AFC playoffs.
The AFC playoffs will be running through Music City, and the Tennessee Titans should have Derrick Henry back for their first game this postseason.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Titans coach Mike Vrabel says the team has some time to make the decision on moving Derrick Henry from injured reserve back to the active roster.
Vrabel likes what he's seen of the 2020 AP NFL Offensive Player of the Year in the three days Henry has practiced.
TENNESSEE (11-5) at HOUSTON (4-12)
Sunday, 1 p.m. EST, CBS
OPENING LINE: Titans by 10 1/2, according to FanDuel SportsBook.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee Titans have made the easy move opening the 21-day window for Derrick Henry to practice Wednesday.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The resilient Tennessee Titans now are two-time AFC South champs and just one victory away from making the AFC playoffs come through Nashville.
So much for a season during which they've been without the league’s two-time rushing champ since Halloween and used 88 players, most ever for a non-strike season in the NFL.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Coach Urban Meyer and team owner Shad Khan had a one-on-one meeting following Jacksonville’s fifth consecutive loss, a 20-0 shutout at Tennessee on Sunday.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee Titans activated wide receiver Julio Jones from injured reserve Saturday, clearing the way for him to play Sunday against the Jacksonville Jaguars.
RENTON, Wash. (AP) — The Seattle Seahawks elevated veteran running back Adrian Peterson from the practice squad to the active roster for Sunday's game against the San Francisco 49ers.
Seattle made the roster move on Saturday due to questions about its running back depth.
RENTON, Wash. (AP) — Desperate for depth at running back, the Seattle Seahawks signed 36-year-old Adrian Peterson to their practice squad on Wednesday.
There’s no guarantee Peterson will be added to Seattle’s active roster ahead of Sunday’s game against San Francisco, but with Chris Carson out for the season, and Rashaad Penny and Travis Homer missing last Monday’s game with injuries, the Seahawks opted to add the veteran to bolster their depth.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Ryan Tannehill fumbled and immediately dove toward the ground, trying to grab the ball back only to be beaten by his teammate, receiver A.J. Brown.
In a most unpredictable of NFL seasons, with only the Detroit Lions showing true consistency — and not quite what you seek — pinpointing the best performances at the halfway mark is a particularly difficult task.
Your best player gets sidelined for a lengthy period, perhaps the rest of the season, and yet you prosper.
That's been the strange scenario recently in Music City, where the Tennessee Titans still have their groove despite losing running back Derrick Henry — also the top player in the AFC South — to a broken foot.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Mike Vrabel dismissed the idea of talking to his Tennessee Titans about playoff seeding and home-field advantage in the playoffs with a succinct response.
No.
His approach stays the same even if the Titans (7-2) have the NFL's longest active winning streak at five to sit atop the AFC halfway through the season.
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Throughout Dont’a Hightower’s nine seasons in New England, the veteran linebacker said the identity of the Patriots’ defense has always been predicated on two things — being physical and stopping the run.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The day after making final roster cuts, the Tennessee Titans put three players on injured reserve.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee Titans like to play physical football and call themselves resilient.
It's also time to consider them contenders.
Tennessee hits the midway point with the NFL’s longest active winning streak at five games — the past four over playoff teams from last season.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — On two snaps 20 seconds apart, Jeffery Simmons and Kevin Byard forced Matthew Stafford into a pair of terrible decisions. The stunning sequence ended with Byard sprinting to the end zone carrying the second of Stafford's back-to-back interceptions.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee Titans activated starting linebacker Jayon Brown from injured reserve on Saturday, and they also signed running back D'Onta Foreman from the practice squad for more depth to help replace Derrick Henry.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Adrian Peterson had been working out regularly to stay in football shape, even dipping around corners to test his eyes as he mimicked cutting back toward a sliver of daylight.
They lead their divisions and have been prime contenders for the top spot in their conference — and the only playoff bye.
Yet the outlooks for the Tennessee Titans (6-2) and Los Angeles Rams (7-1) aren't close to the same as they meet Sunday.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — News of Derrick Henry's foot injury early this week removed some of the luster from the Tennessee Titans' visit to Los Angeles on Sunday night for a prime-time clash between surging conference co-leaders.
ARIZONA (7-1) at SAN FRANCISCO (3-4)
Sunday, 4:25 p.m. EST, Fox
OPENING LINE: Cardinals by 2 1/2, according to FanDuel SportsBook.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee Titans have only one real choice after losing the NFL's rushing leader in Derrick Henry to a broken right foot.
“Keep moving,” Titans quarterback Ryan Tannehill said Wednesday.
Not all is lost for the Indianapolis Colts.
Sure, they are three games behind Tennessee in the AFC South. And yes, the Titans swept Indy this season to hold a massive tiebreaker.
Consider this, however: Derrick Henry, the Titans' outstanding running back and the best offensive player in the division, is sidelined possibly for the remainder of the season.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee Titans have signed 2012 NFL MVP and four-time All-Pro running back Adrian Peterson to help replace NFL rushing leader Derrick Henry.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — NFL rushing leader Derrick Henry will have surgery Tuesday morning on his right foot, and coach Mike Vrabel says the Tennessee Titans are not putting a timeline on when he will return.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee Titans have had plenty of experience dealing with injuries this season and now must adapt to their biggest challenge yet.
No Derrick Henry for the foreseeable future.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Indianapolis Colts should be adjusting their expectations.
They trail division-leading Tennessee by three games and the gap essentially expands to four when factoring in the Titans season sweep.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Two-time All-Pro linebacker Darius Leonard understands what he's facing Sunday.
He must contend again with Derrick Henry's powerful runs and the strong stiff arm that frequently leaves defenders in the dirt.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Derrick Henry is the NFL's two-time defending rushing champ.
Jonathan Taylor hopes to become the top challenger for the title belt.
On Sunday, the league's top two rushers will showcase their styles in Round 2 of a classic matchup between AFC South contenders Tennessee and Indianapolis.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee Titans have a great knack for finishing games. Moving the ball after the opening kickoff is their big problem.
The Titans have scored only 20 points in the first quarter all season and have been shut out in two games.
Some prominent players have fallen by the wayside in fantasy thus far, but we still have some fantasy stars who are more than likely to reach the end zone this week. These are my best bets at the running back and wide receiver positions to score in Week 7.
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Evidently, the Super Bowl parade plans are on hold in Buffalo after the Bills’ so-called redemption tour hit a speed bump in Tennessee.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee Titans just passed their biggest test this season even with an injury report that grows with each passing game.
Call it poise, resiliency or the old cliche of next man up, it certainly helps having the NFL's best rusher in Derrick Henry and a defense with a growing knack for goal-line stands.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Derrick Henry showed once again how important he is to the Tennessee Titans.
This time, he had help from the Tennessee defense.
Henry scored his third touchdown with 3:05 left, and the Titans stopped Josh Allen on a fourth-down quarterback sneak in the final seconds to beat Buffalo 34-31 on Monday night, snapping the Bills' four-game winning streak.