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Getty Images Titans running back Derrick Henry has become the best running back in the league, and he has become a potential MVP candidate. But Henry would cast an MVP ballot for someone else on his team. “We see the throws, we see the plays he makes in the game, and I think that’s where the...

Getty Images Every week we bring you all the inactives from the 1 p.m. ET games in one post, constantly updated with the latest information. This week’s list is headlined by Packers running back Aaron Jones‘ absence from the lineup. Jones is dealing with a calf injury that kept him from...

Getty Images The Titans activated defensive back Dane Cruikshank from injured reserve to the team’s active roster Saturday. The Titans placed Cruikshank on the IR list Sept. 6 with an unknown injury. He returned to practice Oct. 15. Cruikshank has made 18 special teams tackles the past two...

Getty Images Week Seven of the 2020 NFL season kicked off on Thursday with a win by the Eagles and it continues with 12 more games on Sunday, which means that the 24 teams in those games submitted their final injury reports of the week on Friday. The teams playing on Monday night won’t release...

Getty Images The Steelers cut veteran punter Dustin Colquitt on Friday. The move came days after coach Mike Tomlin said, via Brooke Pryor of ESPN, that the team’s “punting is not up to snuff.” They worked out Jordan Berry on Monday, and Berry will return to the Steelers in time to punt Sunday...

Getty Images Texans interim coach Romeo Crennel made a questionable decision with 1:50 remaining Sunday. Up seven points, he opted to go for two rather than kick the extra point. Crennel has defended the decision, which resulted in an incomplete pass and a loss to the Titans in overtime...

Getty Images Week Seven already is upon us. On every Thursday of every week of the season, Simms and I close out PFT Live with a look at the most compelling individual matchups of the week, draft style. I mention that for obvious reasons. This week’s matchup draft appears in the attached...

Getty Images The Titans added receiver A.J. Brown to their Thursday practice report. He did not practice with a knee injury. It is unclear whether the knee issue is related to the bone bruise that kept him sidelined for two games. Brown has played the past two weeks, making 12 catches for 140...

Getty Images The Titans are moving closer to getting cornerback Adoree' Jackson back in the lineup. Jackson was placed on injured reserve with a knee injury before the season opener against the Broncos and he took a step toward coming off the list on Wednesday. The Titans designated Jackson...

Getty Images Titans running back Derrick Henry started rolling during the 2019 season and he isn’t showing any signs of slowing down. Henry carried the ball 22 times for 212 yards and two touchdowns in a performance that Titans head coach Mike Vrabel said carried the team to a 42-36 overtime...

Getty Images It took some time, but the Titans have cleared out their reserve/COVID-19 list. The team announced on Tuesday that tight end MyCole Pruitt and practice squad defensive back Breon Borders have been activated from the list. Pruitt has three catches for 17 yards and a touchdown this...

Getty Images Mike Tomlin was coaching the Steelers against the Browns while Derrick Henry was running through and over the Texans in Tennessee’s overtime win on Sunday, but he’s seen the tape of that performance and plenty of other ones from Henry over the last few years. The most recent...

Getty Images The Steelers have a big game on tap in Week Seven as they will take their 5-0 record on the road for a matchup with the 5-0 Titans. On Tuesday, Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin provided some hope that Pittsburgh will have two key offensive players back in the lineup for that game...

Getty Images Mike Vrabel played for Bill Belichick and played with Tom Brady, so he learned how to be evasive with his answers. The Titans coach, though, deserves coach of the week consideration for using the clock rules in his team’s favor. Whether he admits it or not — and he won’t — that’s...

Getty Images When it comes to paying big money to running backs, there’s a concern that they won’t earn it once they get it. Titans running back Derrick Henry got it, and he’s definitely earning every penny of it. The modern-day Jim Brown (Tony Dungy compares Henry instead to Earl Campbell)...

Getty Images The Titans announced they activated receiver Corey Davis from the reserve/COVID-19 list. They placed left tackle Taylor Lewan on injured reserve with a torn anterior cruciate ligament. Lewan will miss the rest of the season. The Titans have only two players left on the COVID-19...

Getty Images The Tennessee Titans are getting off without any major league discipline after an investigation into the team’s COVID-19 outbreak. The Titans may be fined but no one will be suspended and the team will not be stripped of any draft picks, according to multiple reports. The fines...

Getty Images Of all the various analytics quirks that slowly have become commonplace in football, there’s one I can get behind: Going for two when up seven late in regulation. The logic is simple. Converting the two-pointer ends the game. Failing keeps it a one-score game, with an extra point...

USA TODAY Sports After Titans running back Derrick Henry scored a touchdown in overtime to give his team a 42-36 win over the Texans, Texans defensive end J.J. Watt said he put the loss “squarely on my shoulders.” Watt said that because he considers himself the leader of a defense that also...

USA TODAY Sports Word on Sunday night was that Titans left tackle Taylor Lewan may have torn his ACL during the team’s overtime win over the Texans. Lewan went for tests on Monday that confirmed the nature of the injury. Lewan posted on Twitter that his season is over after an MRI showed the...