Offensive tackle JC Latham is optimistic about the Tennessee Titans\u2019 2026 season. It would be hard for it to be worse than 2025 for the NFL team. Or 2024.<\/p>\n
Since Latham joined the Titans\u2019 offensive line as the seventh selection in the 2024 NFL Draft, Tennessee has endured back-to-back 3-14 seasons. In 2025, the Titans fired coach Brian Callahan six games into the campaign. Team leaders searching for his replacement now after Mike McCoy finished the season as the interim head coach.<\/p>\n
But Latham thinks injuries played a big part in Tennessee\u2019s lack of improvement \u2013 at least as reflected in the record \u2013 during 2025 and foresees better days ahead for the Titans with the right leadership in 2026. <\/p>\n
\u201cYou look at the guys that we have and you look at what we can add to that core guys,\u201d Latham said<\/a>. \u201cI mean, like I said, we lost an immense amount of key players this year, so you look at everybody that we have coming back from injury next year and then what we can add to that, obviously, on paper it\u2019s going to look pretty good.<\/p>\n \u201cBut, I mean, just attention to detail on the little things, and the little things is what\u2019s going to win and lose games. And I feel like the right leadership, the right guys on the field and the right guys just for the support cast of everything, I think it\u2019s something really to be optimistic about and excited for.\u201d<\/p>\n Latham was among the Titans\u2019 injured in 2024. After playing every offensive snap in his rookie season at left tackle, Latham shifted to right tackle in 2025 after Tennessee signed Dan Moore Jr. as a free agent in the offseason.<\/p>\n Latham got hurt in the season-opening game and missed the next four contests because of a hip injury. When he returned to the lineup, he played every offensive snap for the Titans in the remaining 12 games.<\/p>\n But Latham said he still was hurting after his return.<\/p>\n \u201cI asked them, I was like, \u2018Hey, is there anything I can do to kind of get the pain to go away?\u2019\u201d Latham said<\/a>. \u201cAnd with that specific injury, they\u2019re saying you\u2019re going to have to basically deal with it to the end of the year. Either you don\u2019t play or you play through it, but you can\u2019t play and make it go away. So the maturity part of me, I should have kind of taken the appropriate time, not rushed myself to come back, in a sense. So, yeah, I mean, it wasn\u2019t 100 percent, but I felt it was kind of selfish if I could play and I don\u2019t. So, you know, just that\u2019s part on me to kind of gauge it better in the future. \u2026<\/p>\n \u201cYou feel like you\u2019re approaching the day not at your 100 percent, but you don\u2019t want to just leave the team out there. You know, you\u2019re a guy that you want the team to be able to depend on.\u201d<\/p>\n The Titans\u2019 season ended on Sunday with a 41-7 loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars. The offseason will allow Latham to give his injury what it needs.<\/p>\n