For the past two years, the Tennessee Titans have entered training camp with a black cloud hanging over their head. That cloud was high-priced cornerback and prized trade acquisition, L'Jarius Sneed.
Each training camp, the Titans knew that they weren't going to get anything out of Sneed because of a chronic knee injury that required managing. The Titans knew this was something that needed to be monitored during camp, but they expected him to be able to play when the season came around.
Sneed proved that theory wrong when he missed a whopping 65% of his games during his two years with the Titans.
Titans will be so much better off at cornerback in training camp without L'Jarius Sneed questions
What made things worse was that the Titans had to go into the situation blind each season. Sneed insisted that he would be ready to go to start 2024, and the team had every reason to believe him because he had only missed three games in the previous three seasons with the Kansas City Chiefs.
Then again in 2025, the team trusted him to get on the field because his knee wasn't what knocked him out in 2024; it was a freak quad injury that just never healed correctly. None of that mattered, though, as Sneed quickly started piling up lower-body injuries again until he missed the remainder of the 2025 season as well.
Both years, the Titans could reasonably argue that Sneed was going to give them meaningful snaps, but in the end, Sneed only played 12 games for the team, the same number as first-round bust Caleb Farley.
This is the NFL, so Titans fans can expect to see their share of injuries over the course of training camp and throughout the season. However, there is a difference in investing draft resources and cap space into a player that you trust only for the worst-case scenario to happen in back-to-back seasons.
The Titans have done a much better job improving the talent at the top of this roster while also bolstering the depth, so that a situation like this doesn't happen again. With that in mind, Titans fans can rest easy knowing that they aren't putting their faith in someone in a similar situation like they have been forced to in recent years.
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