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Former Vol quarterback Hendon Hooker<\/a> appeared in the contest for the Titans. He completed 2-of-3 passing attempts for 17 yards. Hooker also totaled -2 rushing yards and two fumbles (two recoveries) on three attempts. He was not sacked against the 49ers.<\/p>\n Cam Ward started for Tennessee and completed 5-of-12 passing attempts for 57 yards.<\/p>\n Quarterbacks Will Levis and Mitchell Trubisky also appeared in the contest for Tennessee. Levis completed 3-of-8 passing attempts for 42 yards, while Trubisky totaled 23 yards on 2-of-3 passing attempts.<\/p>\n Expert NFL picks: Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a><\/p>\n Running back Tony Pollard scored the Titans’ only touchdown. He scored on a five-yard rushing attempt in the first quarter. Pollard recorded 22 rushing yards on four attempts.<\/p>\n Tennessee kicker Joey Slye converted 4-of-4 field goal attempts and 1-of-1 extra point attempts.<\/p>\n Follow Vols Wire on\u00a0Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0X<\/a>\u00a0(formerly Twitter).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug. 14, 2026, 9:25 a.m. ET Tennessee (1-0) opened its preseason schedule in the NFL on Thursday. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":972989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[95878,7,6,127945,97322,96358,95882,96027,95893,102926,103662,95896,95888,95899,96099,96100,96071,95883,95889,97081,98129,95881],"class_list":["post-972988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-accessfree","tag-football","tag-nfl","tag-sourcevols-wire","tag-sstssportscollegevolunteersfootball","tag-sstsnfootball","tag-tagamerican-football","tag-tagcollege-sports","tag-tagfacebook","tag-taghendon-hooker","tag-tagjoey-slye","tag-tagnational-sports","tag-tagnfl","tag-tagoverall-neutral","tag-tagsec-conference-football","tag-tagsec-hub","tag-tagsmg-timely","tag-tagsports-news","tag-tagtennessee-titans","tag-tagtennessee-volunteers-football","tag-tagtony-pollard","tag-typestory"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117094192487429042","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972988","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=972988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/972989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=972988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=972988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Aug.](\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/91301453007-20260814-t-043423-z-1163255754-mt-1-usatoday-29580553-rtrmadp-3-nfltennesseetitansatsanf.webp\")
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