JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 The Titans lost their starting quarterback, and another football game, here on Sunday.<\/p>\n
It was a painful ending to a tough season.<\/p>\n
Cam Ward suffered a right shoulder injury in the first quarter of Sunday’s game after diving into the end zone on a seven-yard touchdown run, which gave the Titans an early lead.<\/p>\n
Ward did not return on a day when the Titans lost 41-7 to the Jaguars. Interim coach Mike McCoy said the plan is for Ward to undergo more testing on Monday in Nashville to determine the severity of the injury.<\/p>\n
With the loss, the Titans finished the season with a 3-14 record.<\/p>\n
“It’s a tough way to go out,” McCoy said. “It’s (been) a tough season. It’s not easy, but the fight in these guys has been out of this world. \u2026 You never want to play a game like this. I think there has been some really good football. But this was nowhere close to being good enough.”<\/p>\n
The Titans got off to a promising start, as Ward capped a five-yard, 58-yard drive with a seven-yard touchdown run to give the team a 7-0 lead.<\/p>\n
But Ward was immediately greeted by trainers when he returned to the team’s bench, before heading into the medical tent. From there, Ward headed into the Titans locker room.<\/p>\n
An official announcement was made in the press box that Ward would be questionable to return.<\/p>\n
But Ward was downgraded to out, as he did not return to the game. Ward watched the second half on the sideline, in a jacket, with a sling on his right shoulder, a headset on his head, and a packet of sunflower seeds in his hand.<\/p>\n
Ward did not speak to reporters after the game, and McCoy said it’s too early to know the severity of the injury.<\/p>\n
“We’ll do more testing,” McCoy said of Ward, and the injury. “Until they do more testing \u2026 I’ll give you a better answer down the road.”<\/p>\n
Brandon Allen replaced Ward, who had played in every snap for the Titans this season, and he finished the contest.<\/p>\n
“It obviously didn’t go well,” said Allen, who completed 17-of-30 passes for 72 yards with an interception that was returned for a touchdown in the game. “It had been a long time between some live reps. It felt good to be back out there, to get hit a little bit, as far as overall offensive performance after Cam went down, it wasn’t good enough.<\/p>\n
“We had a bunch of three-and-outs, we didn’t move the ball, I didn’t make some completions. The pick-6 was brutal. \u2026 Overall, you want to play better, and I don’t feel like I did that.”<\/p>\n
No, things didn’t go well for the Titans the rest of the way, as the Jaguars scored 31 straight points to close out the first half to blow the game open.<\/p>\n
A 23-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Trevor Lawrence to Parker Washington made it 7-7 before tight end Brenton Strange’s seven-yard catch from Lawrence made it 14-7.<\/p>\n
Then Jaguars cornerback Antonio Johnson picked off Allen and returned it 59 yards for a touchdown to make it 21-7 midway through the second quarter. A five-yard touchdown pass from Lawrence to Quinton Morris made it 28-7.<\/p>\n
A 67-yard field goal by Jaguars kicker Cam Little at the halftime horn made it 31-7 at the break.<\/p>\n
Another Little field goal, this one from 52 yards with 1:03 left in the third quarter, made it 34-7 Jaguars.<\/p>\n
A five-yard touchdown by Bhayshul Tuten made it 41-7 with 7:28 left.<\/p>\n
The Titans couldn’t muster up much offense on a day when the Jaguars clinched the AFC South. Joey Slye misfired on a field goal in the closing minutes, and the Jaguars were left to celebrate.<\/p>\n
“The season didn’t go the way we wanted it to go,” defensive tackle Jeffery Simmons said. “As a team, we don’t like this feeling. But that is what the offseason is for \u2013 we’ll figure it out and be better next year.”<\/p>\n
The Titans were scheduled to fly back to Nashville immediately after the contest.<\/p>\n
McCoy is scheduled for a season ending press conference on Monday, when players will clean out their lockers at Ascension Saint Thomas Sports Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 The Titans lost their starting quarterback, and another football game, here on Sunday. It was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2061],"tags":[94953,7,17420,786,6,1018,526,394,93335,2411,527],"class_list":["post-655640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennessee-titans","tag-2026-01-04-postgame-stories-titans-at-jaguars","tag-football","tag-game-recap","tag-homepage-centerpiece","tag-nfl","tag-team-football-news","tag-tennessee","tag-tennessee-titans","tag-tennessee-titans-at-jacksonville-jaguars-2025-reg-18","tag-tennesseetitans","tag-titans"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115841997085356112","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655640","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=655640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}