Sebastian Joseph-Day spent last season with the Titans, and he will remain in place for 2025. The veteran defensive lineman is re-signing in Tennessee, Ian Rapoport of NFL Network reports.
Rapoport adds this will be a one-year pact including $5MM guaranteed. The deal can max out at $7.5MM. Joseph-Day started 12 games in 2024 and he will be counted on to remain a key presence up front for the Titans.
Tennessee is bumping Joseph-Day’s base value up by $1MM from his 2024 arrangement. While Joseph-Day’s years of commanding the kind of deals he did from the Chargers (3/24) are probably over, the former Rams cog is coming off a solid season. Joseph-Day, 30 later this month, finished with six tackles for loss — six more than he compiled during a 2023 season that involved an in-season release.
Waived by the Chargers shortly after they fired Brandon Staley and GM Tom Telesco, Joseph-Day resurfaced with the 49ers before making his way to Nashville as a free agent. A role player in two Super Bowls — the first of which because the usual Rams starter was a late-season IR activation — Joseph-Day joined Jeffery Simmons and T’Vondre Sweat on a defensive line that was probably a 3-14 team’s bright spot. The Titans managed to rank 30th in scoring defense and second against the run. Pro Football Focus rated Joseph-Day as a top-10 run defender among interior D-linemen.
For his career, Joseph-Day now has 80 starts, 13 sacks and 24.5 TFLs. The Titans are changing up their edge-rushing equation, having cut Harold Landry, but they will run it back up front with Joseph-Day and Sweat complementing Simmons.
Adam La Rose contributed to this post