{"id":906547,"date":"2026-05-31T22:21:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T22:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/906547\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T22:21:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T22:21:16","slug":"tony-pollard-wasnt-really-paying-attention-to-talk-about-titans-drafting-jeremiyah-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/906547\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Pollard &#8216;wasn&#8217;t really paying attention to&#8217; talk about Titans drafting Jeremiyah Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Love has arrived in the NFL and on the Arizona roster with overwhelming hype following a stellar career at Notre Dame. His skill set is scintillating.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, Pollard is a proven commodity, even if his recognition hasn&#8217;t matched his statistics.<\/p>\n<p>Pollard was a Pro Bowler for the Cowboys in 2022, the first of his aforementioned quartet of 1,000-yard campaigns. Only former Titan and current Baltimore Raven Derrick Henry has also run to 1,000 yards in each of the last four NFL seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Not bad company for Pollard.<\/p>\n<p>He had a career-best 1,082 yards on the ground with five touchdowns last season.<\/p>\n<p>For a Titans team coming off back-to-back three-win seasons, there are plenty of roster holes to plug, such as wide receiver, which was addressed with <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break:break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/carnell-tate\/\" title=\"Carnell Tate\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carnell Tate<\/a>&#8216;s selection at No. 4. So, with the 29-year-old Pollard already in place to support quarterback <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break:break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/cam-ward\/\" title=\"Cam Ward\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cam Ward<\/a> and a Tennessee offense taking on offensive coordinator Brian Daboll&#8217;s new scheme, sticking with the veteran makes sense.<\/p>\n<p>As Pollard and his wife are expecting a fourth child, he&#8217;s prepping for his eighth NFL season.<\/p>\n<p>Pollard has played in at least 15 games in each of his seven NFL seasons, having slowly but surely become one of the league&#8217;s more dependable running backs, unheralded as he might continue to be.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The work ethic, everything that I&#8217;m doing behind the scenes, it&#8217;s paying off,&#8221; Pollard said, <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/titans-tony-pollard-4f7076c75281b1d531dd096234d9f305\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">via The AP<\/a>. &#8220;I slowly feel like throughout my career I&#8217;ve just slowly progressed more and more, and I feel like I&#8217;m still trending in that direction.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As the Titans aim to emerge from the AFC South cellar, Pollard figures to be crucial in that endeavor, searching for a fifth 1,000-yard season and to prove that no Love for Tennessee is no problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Love has arrived in the NFL and on the Arizona roster with overwhelming hype following a stellar career&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":906548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2061],"tags":[390,1227,7,7805,88,6,609,4267,526,394,2411,527,10562],"class_list":["post-906547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennessee-titans","tag-arizona-cardinals","tag-around-the-nfl","tag-football","tag-jeremiyah-love","tag-news","tag-nfl","tag-no-minute","tag-offseason-news","tag-tennessee","tag-tennessee-titans","tag-tennesseetitans","tag-titans","tag-tony-pollard"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116671524587031812","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906547","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=906547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/906548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}