{"id":277965,"date":"2025-08-10T22:17:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T22:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/277965\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T22:17:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T22:17:14","slug":"tyjae-spears-injury-titans-rb-to-miss-the-rest-of-preseason-due-to-high-ankle-sprain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/277965\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyjae Spears injury: Titans RB to miss the rest of preseason due to high ankle sprain"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tennessee Titans<\/a> running back Tyjae Spears<\/a> will miss the rest of the preseason after suffering a high ankle sprain during Saturday’s game against the\u00a0Green Bay Packers<\/a>. Spears dealt with injuries for much of the 2024 season, and Titans coach Brian Callahan told reporters Sunday<\/a> that the third-year back will “miss a couple weeks at least” and hopes he will be able to play in Week 1 against the Denver Broncos<\/a> on Sept. 7.<\/p>\n

Spears sustained the injury during the first half of Saturday’s eventual loss to the Packers. After catching a 13-yard pass, Spears limped off the field before he was carted into the locker room. He was seen using crutches after the game with a walking boot on his right foot.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 24-year-old, a third-round pick in the 2023 draft, dealt with multiple injuries last year. Spears was limited to 12 games while dealing with two concussions, an ankle sprain and a hamstring injury.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As a rookie, Spears rushed for 453 yards and two touchdowns and also caught 52 passes for 385 yards and a score. He tallied 536 total yards and five touchdowns last season.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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While Spears is the Titans’ No. 2 running back, the expectation has been that he would have a bigger role this season while teaming up with\u00a0Tony Pollard<\/a>\u00a0in the Tennessee backfield. But if Spears’ injury lingers, that would lead to a bigger workload Pollard, a former Pro Bowler with the Cowboys<\/a> who rushed for a career-high 1,079 yards last season — his first with the Titans.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In the short term, Spears’ injury will create more opportunities for fellow backups Kalel Mullings<\/a> and Julius Chestnut<\/a>. A rookie, Mullings rushed for 948 yards and 12 touchdowns during his final season at Michigan. A four-year veteran, Chestnut had 22 carries last season after getting just nine regular season carries during his first two years in Nashville.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"USATSI Tennessee Titans running back Tyjae Spears will miss the rest of the preseason after suffering a high…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2061],"tags":[7,10561,4046,6,526,394,2411,527,10562,10555],"class_list":{"0":"post-277965","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennessee-titans","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-julius-chestnut","10":"tag-kalel-mullings","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-tennessee","13":"tag-tennessee-titans","14":"tag-tennesseetitans","15":"tag-titans","16":"tag-tony-pollard","17":"tag-tyjae-spears"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115006789973514335","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277965","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=277965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}