{"id":854354,"date":"2026-04-05T01:47:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T01:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/854354\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T01:47:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T01:47:30","slug":"tennessee-titans-lose-cb-kaiir-elam-to-the-kansas-city-chiefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/854354\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Titans lose CB Kaiir Elam to the Kansas City Chiefs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 3, 2026, 4:04 a.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">After a flurry of activity on Wednesday, it was mostly silence at 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>&#8216; facilities on Thursday, but that doesn\u2019t mean some of their former players weren\u2019t making news.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The latest was cornerback Kaiir Elam, who joined the Titans in November and signed a one-year deal with the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/kansas-city-chiefs\/339\" data-autotag=\"e91367c2-d7b8-4bec-9359-95947acd6b0e\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Kansas City Chiefs<\/a> earlier in the day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Elam entered the league as a first-round pick (23rd overall) of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/buffalo-bills\/324\" data-autotag=\"1082767b-7fb4-4f44-b217-cdba2c3895e9\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Buffalo Bills<\/a> in the 2022 NFL Draft out of Florida, and has since spent time with the Bills and the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/dallas-cowboys\/331\" data-autotag=\"7af2161d-a8dd-41a5-87e2-32eb5b028473\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Dallas Cowboys<\/a>. The 6-foot-1, 191-pound cornerback has seen action in 39 games (19 starts) between the Bills and Cowboys and accumulated 110 tackles and two interceptions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Elam never met expectations with Buffalo and was traded during the offseason to the Cowboys, and played 460 snaps before being released. After signing with the Titans, he saw action in four games with the Titans, recording 33 total tackles (22 solo) with two fumble recoveries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">He will now join a Chiefs franchise that ironically traded up to the 22nd spot (one ahead of the Bills) to select cornerback Trent McDuffie in the 2022 NFL Draft, one of the players he will be trying to replace in 2026.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"April 3, 2026, 4:04 a.m. ET After a flurry of activity on Wednesday, it was mostly silence at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":854355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2061],"tags":[95878,7,6,96009,96010,95882,96033,96256,97560,96540,95899,95883,95889,526,394,2411,527,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-854354","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennessee-titans","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sstssportsnfltitans","12":"tag-sstsntitans","13":"tag-tagamerican-football","14":"tag-tagbuffalo-bills","15":"tag-tagdallas-cowboys","16":"tag-tagkaiir-elam","17":"tag-tagkansas-city-chiefs","18":"tag-tagoverall-neutral","19":"tag-tagsports-news","20":"tag-tagtennessee-titans","21":"tag-tennessee","22":"tag-tennessee-titans","23":"tag-tennesseetitans","24":"tag-titans","25":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116349583135548529","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854354","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=854354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/854355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}