It\u2019s no longer an injured quad that\u2019s slowing L\u2019Jarius Sneed\u2019s return to the practice field.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a knee issue.<\/p>\n
Titans General Manager Mike Borgonzi revealed Tuesday that Sneed in May underwent what he termed a clean-up surgery on his knee, which is the reason Sneed will begin training on the team\u2019s physically unable to play list (PUP).<\/p>\n
Center Lloyd Cushenberry (torn Achilles), as expected, will also begin training camp on the PUP list.<\/p>\n
Borgonzi classified each player as week to week, with training camp getting underway Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n
In other injury updates, Borgonzi said wide receiver Treylon Burks and rookie safety Kevin Winston Jr., both of whom are recovering from torn ACLs, are completely healthy for the start of camp.<\/p>\n
One other personnel update: Borgonzi said veteran edge rusher Lorenzo Carter, who signed with the Titans in March, told the team Monday he would be retiring after a seven-year career.<\/p>\n
Carter\u2019s departure from the game will be another blow to a thin edge rusher group, behind Arden Key, Dre\u2019Mont Jones and rookie Femi Oladejo.<\/p>\n
Sneed, who signed a four-year, $76.2 million deal with the Titans in March 2024, missed the last 12 games of the 2024 season with a quad injury. He also missed all the 2025 offseason, with what most believed to be the lingering effects of the quad injury.<\/p>\n
But Borgonzi said Tuesday the knee, which required a practice maintenance program for the past two seasons, is now what Sneed is working to overcome.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s making progress,\u201d Borgonzi said. \u201cHe\u2019s really worked hard. He\u2019s been here during the summer. He\u2019s headed in the right direction. We\u2019ll hopefully get him back here soon.\u201d<\/p>\n
Is it common for a clean-up procedure to keep a player sidelined at least two months after the surgery?<\/p>\n
\u201cI keep in contact with [Sneed] all the time,\u201d Borgonzi said. \u201cHe\u2019s worked really hard to get back, and I feel really confident he\u2019s going to be back.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the meantime, the Titans have been busy collecting cornerbacks since the end of the 2024 season.<\/p>\n
They drafted Cal\u2019s Marcus Harris in the sixth round and signed free agent Amani Oruwariye. A six-year veteran, the 29-year-old Oruwariye has played in 61 NFL games, making 40 starts and recording 10 interceptions.<\/p>\n
The Titans also added four undrafted free agent corners following the draft: Jermari Harris (from Iowa), Jalen Kimber (Penn State), Clarence Lewis (Syracuse) and Davion Ross (Memphis).<\/p>\n
Might even more corners be needed on the roster, given Sneed\u2019s health status, as well as the fact he\u2019s the target of a $1 million lawsuit over an alleged shooting incident?<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we\u2019ve got a lot to do at a lot of positions, not just corner,\u201d Titans president of football operations Chad Brinker said. \u201cWe\u2019ll continue to evaluate this every single day. We\u2019re going to look at other opportunities to upgrade the roster when we can. If we\u2019re able to do that, we will. But we\u2019ve got some work to do, not just at the corner but other positions as far as depth is concerned.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cushenberry, who missed the last nine games of last season, sat out the entire offseason as well following the Achilles injury.<\/p>\n
Corey Levin will likely take most of the first-team reps at center as camp gets underway, but it\u2019s important that Cushenberry and rookie Cam Ward \u2014 the presumed starting quarterback \u2014 get some time together before the season gets underway.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that\u2019s important,\u201d Borgonzi said. \u201cHopefully he\u2019s going to be back here soon. He\u2019s week to week and he\u2019s making really good progress.\u201d<\/p>\n
Burks missed the last 12 games of last season following the torn ACL last season.<\/p>\n
The 2022 first-round pick is heading into the final year of his contract, after playing just 27 games and making 53 catches in his first three seasons.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe works really hard,\u201d Borgonzi said. \u201cI know he\u2019s a talented kid. He\u2019s just had some setbacks in his career so far. But he\u2019s been out there working. I saw the shape he came back in [Tuesday], which means it\u2019s important to him. I look forward to seeing him here in person.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s no longer an injured quad that\u2019s slowing L\u2019Jarius Sneed\u2019s return to the practice field. It\u2019s a knee…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2061],"tags":[7,2612,6922,6,526,394,2411,527],"class_list":{"0":"post-228037","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennessee-titans","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-l","10":"tag-lloyd-cushenberry","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-tennessee","13":"tag-tennessee-titans","14":"tag-tennesseetitans","15":"tag-titans"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114899040743668095","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}