Tony Pollard

Tennessee was 9-25 over Carthorn's two seasons as GM. Carthorn in 2023 was victorious in a power struggle with former Titans head coach Mike Vrabel and was promoted to executive vice president. He then used the 33rd pick in the 2024 NFL Draft to take Will Levis, who was one of the NFL's worst quarterbacks in 2024 and appears to be a career backup at best. Carthorn's front office also made curious signings like Tony Pollard and Calvin Ridley in the offseason. Carthorn will likely land with another front office, though his days as a general manager are probably over.

Staked to a passing game that was going nowhere, Pollard didn't have much of a chance to make positive prowess. The Titans did feed him to try to get him to his yardage and touchdown incentives, and Pollard played 45 of 60 snaps, but they didn't get anywhere on the Texans tough run defense. Pollard enters year two of his three-year contract with the Titans as the likely No. 1 back after staving off Tyjae Spears most of the season. The veteran back managed a 260/1069/5 rushing line. The Titans don't have a compelling reason to move on from Pollard at this point, but he's more of a band-aid than a fixture.

He looks likely to get a big workload with Tyjae Spears (concussion) out and has touchdown and yardage-based incentives that could lead the Titans to feed him the ball. Inactive for the Titans are S Amani Hooker, Spears, K Nick Folk, WR Jha'Quan Jackson, OLB Arden Key, RT Jaelyn Duncan, and WR Tyler Boyd. All of those players asides from Jackson was ruled out by injury on Friday.

Pollard (ankle) is active for Sunday's game against the Texans.

As Schefter notes, Pollard needs 83 rushing yards and two rushing touchdowns to reach $450K in incentives from his contract. Facing a Texans team that is likely to pull their starters early, Pollard should be able to get the yardage total and at least one score. Pollard will see plenty of work with Tyjae Spears sidelined for the final game of the year, putting him at the top of the WR2 ranks for Week 18.