The 5-foot-11, 200-pound Woods brings plenty of experience to the Titans, after his four seasons (2017-20) with Dallas, one season (2021) with Minnesota and the last three seasons (2022-24) with Carolina. He also brings production \u2013 while making 111 starts, he’s totaled 616 tackles, 13 interceptions, 47 passes defensed, 11 stops for loss, one sack, five forced fumbles and five fumble recoveries.<\/p>\n
In 2024, Woods did not miss a defensive snap while starting all 17 games, and he led the league in the category with (1,152) according to TruMedia. He set a career best with 119 tackles and tied his career high with three interceptions.<\/p>\n
Woods also brings leadership, and he wants to make his mark with the Titans \u2013 on and off the field — after paying his dues, and learning from others, in the league.<\/p>\n
Woods, who turns 30 in July, has no plans of letting up.<\/p>\n
“I came in (2017) as a sixth-round draft pick, so nothing was promised,” Woods said. “I had to make every opportunity count. I could have been cut and never made it to this point. I probably wasn’t supposed to make the team, but every opportunity I got, I made a play. That’s just my motto \u2013 make a play a day. If I get the opportunity, never give it back. Once I got the opportunity, whether it’s starting practice, or starting a game, I think it speaks for itself \u2013 I never gave it back. Just being from that standpoint, I just want to earn my teammates’ respect, being at a new place, and make the most out of everything.<\/p>\n
“I am going into Year 9. As a sixth-round pick, it doesn’t happen all the time, especially as a DB. So, every day in this building I am working like it could be my last, because you never know at any moment.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 5-foot-11, 200-pound Woods brings plenty of experience to the Titans, after his four seasons (2017-20) with Dallas,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2061],"tags":[7,786,6,1018,526,394,2411,527,8505],"class_list":{"0":"post-26450","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennessee-titans","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-homepage-centerpiece","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-team-football-news","12":"tag-tennessee","13":"tag-tennessee-titans","14":"tag-tennesseetitans","15":"tag-titans","16":"tag-xavier-woods"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114456905607874995","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26450","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=26450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}