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Titans Cut Roster Down To 53

September 1st, 2018 at 1:15pm CST by Sam Robinson

Starting right tackle Jack Conklin will return to the Titans’ active roster after missing training camp due to his ACL tear in Tennessee’s second-round playoff game. He will be taken off the PUP list, pointing to an early-season return rather than a six-week absence.

Many other Titans will have to head elsewhere. Tennessee announced its cuts, trimming the roster from 90 to 53 players. Here is the full list of cuts:

WR Deontay Burnett
DB Trey Caldwell
LB Josh Carraway
TE Jerome Cunningham
RB Dalyn Dawkins
QB Luke Falk
DB Rico Gafford
DB Demontre Hurst
OL Nico Falah
OL Laurence Gibson
DE David King
DE Francis Kallon
LB Jeff Knox
DB Josh Kalu
DL Du’Vonta Lampkin
OL Tyler Marz
LB Nyles Morgan
OL Elijah Nkansah
DE Tobenna Okeke
DT Mike Ramsay
TE Tim Semisch
WR Brandon Shippen
LB Robert Spillane
G Xavier Su’a-Filo
DB Steven Terrell
DB Jason Thompson
RB Lenard Tillery
WR Jordan Veasy
RB Akrum Wadley
DL Julius Warmsley
LB Tony Washington
S Damon Webb
OL Cody Wichmann
WR Nick Williams
TE Ethan Wolf

Placed on IR:

P Austin Barnard
WR Devin Ross

Titans Release Several Players

August 31st, 2018 at 12:10pm CST by Zachary Links

Rather than releasing 30+ players on Saturday morning, the Titans got ahead of the game on Friday by making some early cuts. The following players have been dropped from the 90-man roster (all links go to Twitter, unless noted otherwise):

CB Trey Caldwell (via McCormick)
DB Rico Gafford (via McCormick)
DB Demontre Hurst (via Tom Pelissero of NFL.com)
DE Francis Kallon (via McCormick)
DE David King (via Adam Caplan of SiriusXM)
DL Johnny Maxey (via McCormick) (waived/injured)
DL Mike Ramsay (via Terry McCormick of TitanInsider.com)
DB Steven Terrell (via McCormick)
RB Lenard Tillery (via McCormick)
WR Jordan Veasy (via McCormick)

King was an exclusive rights free agent this offseason and was retained on a one-year deal for the league minimum. Last season marked his most successful campaign to date as he played on a quarter of the club’s defensive snaps and 16% of the Titans’ special teams snaps.

The Titans wrapped their preseason on Thursday night with a 13-3 loss to the Vikings. The Titans went 0-4 in exhibition games, but that’s rarely an indicator of regular season success.

Per league rules, the Titans must trim their way down to a 53-man roster by Saturday afternoon. They’ll get there by releasing more players and placing others on injured reserve.

Titans Sign 22 UDFAs

May 11th, 2018 at 10:12am CST by Zachary Links

The Titans have signed a host of undrafted free agents to their offseason roster. Here’s the full rundown:

P/K Austin Barnard (Samford)
WR Cameron Batson (Texas Tech)
WR Deontay Burnett (USC)
RB Dalyn Dawkins (Colorado State)
ILB Nick DeLuca (North Dakota State)
OT Matthew Diaz (Wagner)
DE Matt Dickerson (UCLA)
C Nico Falah (USC)
OLB Sharif Finch (Temple)
CB Rico Gafford (Wyoming)
CB Elijaah Goins (Ohio State)
S Joshua Kalu (Nebraska)
CB Ryan McKinley (Montana)
OT Elijah Nkansah (Toledo)
DT Mike Ramsay (Duke)
RB Larry Rose (New Mexico State)
WR Devin Ross (Colorado)
OG Aaron Stinnie (James Madison)
WR Jordan Veasy (California)
RB Akrum Wadley (Iowa)
S Damon Webb (Ohio State)
TE Ethan Wolf (Tennessee)

Finch received a larger-than-average $42K guarantee to sign with the Titans (as noted by NFL.com’s Tom Pelissero, on Twitter), so he may have a better shot than most of making the final cut. Finch, a 6’5″, 250-pound edge rusher, recorded five blocked punts at Temple using his exceptional wingspan. While he lacks pass rushing technique, the Titans probably feel that he has potential as a special teams contributor.

The Titans had only a four-man draft class this year, which necessitated a large UDFA class.