{"id":777028,"date":"2026-02-26T06:44:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T06:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/777028\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T06:44:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T06:44:17","slug":"former-panthers-s-xavier-woods-released-by-titans-on-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/777028\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Panthers S Xavier Woods released by Titans on Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 25, 2026, 6:23 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">A former <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/carolina-panthers\/364\" data-autotag=\"8afac4d1-41b4-4302-b154-b45f5b48a0d2\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Carolina Panthers<\/a> defender has been released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">As announced on Monday, the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/tennessee-titans\/336\" data-autotag=\"f9731e2d-52ac-46db-9b52-ab518dbe13b4\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Tennessee Titans<\/a> have parted ways with safety Xavier Woods. The veteran defensive back had played three seasons with the Panthers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">A three-time first-team All-Conference USA selection out of Louisiana Tech University, Woods was taken by the Dallas Cowboys in the sixth round of the 2017 NFL Draft. He&#8217;d follow up a four-year stint there with a one-year stop for the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/minnesota-vikings\/347\" data-autotag=\"839728ed-97f0-4c7c-9ea6-299b7540514e\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Minnesota Vikings<\/a> in 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Woods began his tenure in Carolina on a three-year deal, $15.7 million deal ahead of the 2022 campaign. He went on to start in each of his 46 games over that span\u2014totaling 266 combined tackles, five interceptions and three fumble recoveries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">After his time was up as a Panther, Woods was <a href=\"http:\/\/pantherswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/panthers\/2025\/03\/11\/nfl-free-agency-titans-panthers-xavier-woods\/82286318007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">signed<\/a> by the Titans last March to a two-year, $10 million pact. His lone campaign in Tennessee saw him record 10 starts in 11 games\u2014with 39 tackles, two interceptions and a sack.<\/p>\n<p>Expert NFL picks: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (nfl)|e|auto spike click:5|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/picks\">Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Follow\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ThePanthersWire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">@ThePanthersWire<\/a>\u00a0on Twitter\/X for more Panthers content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb. 25, 2026, 6:23 p.m. ET A former Carolina Panthers defender has been released. As announced on Monday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":777029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2075],"tags":[95878,235,260,2567,7,6,236,97114,97115,95882,96059,110117,95988,95888,95895,95899,96177,95883,95889,95894,110116,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-777028","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-carolina-panthers","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-carolina","10":"tag-carolina-panthers","11":"tag-carolinapanthers","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-panthers","15":"tag-sstssportsnflpanthers","16":"tag-sstsnpanthers","17":"tag-tagamerican-football","18":"tag-tagcarolina-panthers","19":"tag-taglouisiana-tech-university","20":"tag-tagminnesota-vikings","21":"tag-tagnfl","22":"tag-tagnfl-hub","23":"tag-tagoverall-neutral","24":"tag-tagsmg-breaking-wire","25":"tag-tagsports-news","26":"tag-tagtennessee-titans","27":"tag-tagtwitter","28":"tag-tagxavier-woods","29":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116135583687543356","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777028","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=777028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}