{"id":58140,"date":"2025-08-10T17:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T17:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/58140\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T17:40:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T17:40:07","slug":"titans-rb-tyjae-spears-high-ankle-sprain-out-rest-of-preseason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/58140\/","title":{"rendered":"Titans RB Tyjae Spears (high ankle sprain) out rest of preseason"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Turron DavenportAug 11, 2025, 02:48 AM<\/p>\n

Close<\/a>Turron Davenport covers the Tennessee Titans for ESPN since 2018. Turron is a former collegiate football player at Cheyney University and is a native of Philadelphia, and he has authored\/co-authored four books. You can catch Turron on ESPN Radio on his show “Talking with TD.”<\/p>\n

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Titans<\/a> running back Tyjae Spears<\/a> is expected to be out for a few weeks, coach Brian Callahan said Sunday.<\/p>\n

The team doesn’t expect Spears, who suffered a high ankle sprain during Saturday night’s preseason opener against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers<\/a>, back before the preseason is over.<\/p>\n

Spears was seen leaving the locker room on crutches with a walking boot on his right foot after the game. The injury happened just before halftime when Spears caught a pass out of the backfield for a 13-yard gain. He limped off the field and was quickly placed on a cart that took him into the locker room.<\/p>\n

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Callahan wanted to have a more balanced rushing attack this season that featured both Spears and Tony Pollard<\/a>. Pollard’s 260 carries last season dwarfed Spears’ total (84).<\/p>\n

As a rookie in 2023, Spears appeared in all 17 games while playing alongside Derrick Henry<\/a>. Spears rushed for 453 yards and two touchdowns, and he caught 52 passes for 385 yards and a touchdown.<\/p>\n

Spears missed five games last season because of two concussions, an ankle sprain and a hamstring injury. He was expected to contribute in the passing and running games, but he was limited to 114 touches.<\/p>\n

Callahan also gave updates on a few other players. Defensive tackle T’Vondre Sweat<\/a> had his tonsils removed last week but will join the team in Atlanta for joint practices with the Atlanta Falcons<\/a> on Tuesday and Wednesday. Guard Blake Hance<\/a> and center Lloyd Cushenberry III<\/a> also could be back at practice this week. Cushenberry (Achilles) is currently on the physically unable to perform list but has worked on a third field all of camp.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, rookie safety Kevin Winston Jr<\/a>. has missed four consecutive practices for what the team described as general maintenance. Winston suffered a torn ACL last September but returned in time for training camp. He left practice early last week and hasn’t returned.<\/p>\n

Callahan believes cornerback L’Jarius Sneed<\/a> is getting close to returning but wouldn’t give a timeline. Sneed is on the PUP list after having a cleanup procedure performed on his knee in May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Turron DavenportAug 11, 2025, 02:48 AM CloseTurron Davenport covers the Tennessee Titans for ESPN since 2018. Turron is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-58140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}