Jevon Kearse News

SAN FRANCISCO The Titans will be without starting right tackle David Stewart and starting outside linebacker David Thornton for Sunday's game here against theA 49ers.

Both illustrate the weekly competition between youth and experience on the Titans defensive line, easily the most difficult position on the roster to earn and keep a starting job or playing time.

Kevin Mawae fired back at Rodney Harrison on Friday, a day after the former NFL safety called the veteran center a "dirty dude" and the Titans the dirtiest team in the NFL.

Titans right tackle David Stewart missed practice on Friday but is expected to play against the 49ers on Sunday, Coach Jeff Fisher said.

Breakaway threat Maurice Jones-Drew is in the rearview mirror. Now the Titans have to watch out for another big-play guy, 49ers running back Frank Gore.

Titans center Kevin Mawae has an idea why he was voted one of the NFL's 10 dirtiest players in a Sports Illustrated poll.

Titans defensive tackle Jovan Haye and defensive end Jevon Kearse are among the team's inactives for Sunday's game against the Jaguars.

The football did what the Jacksonville Jaguars could not Sunday. It stopped Tennessee running back Chris Johnson.

The Titans' struggling pass defense will have some help against the Jaguars with the return of CB Cortland Finnegan and DB Vincent Fuller .

Eds: APNewsNow. By TERESA M. WALKER AP Sports Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. The Jacksonville Jaguars deactivated cornerback Rashean Mathis against Tennessee as expected Sunday with his broken left finger.

Have you noticed that some of the best players in the NFL have been benched for key plays or even entire games over the past few weeks? A I just wrote a piece about Norv Turner's inexplicable decision to go with Darren Sproles on the goal line vs.

Kerry Collins News: Kerry Collins has been replaced by Vince Young in the fourth quarter of the game at New England.

I have three words for Titans fans who are calling for coach Jeff Fisher's heada 'and Titans players who act like he just kicked their doga 'after a joke he made at a charity function Tuesday: GET...OVER...YOURSELVES . On Tuesday, following the Titans embarrassing 59-0 no-show of a game against the New England Patriots, Jeff Fisher appeared at a ...

If the Titans are considering a change at quarterback, they haven't told starter Kerry Collins about it.

Running back Sammy Morris described it as "torture," and he wasn't alone. It has taken a week to shake free the remnants of the reality that coach Bill Belichick lost to his protege Josh McDaniels and that both offense and defense had equal responsibility in allowing it to happen.

Winless. 0-5. That's a zero and a five. Cero y Cinco. No matter how you say it, the Tennessee Titans are on the worst slide their franchise has seen in recent memory.

When a season is all but lost, finger pointing becomes the norm. A Both players and fans alike get in on the act; playing the blame game is the normal, knee-jerk reaction.

Adalius Thomas is among the inactive players for the New England Patriots against the Tennessee Titans.

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. - The New England Patriots are trying to overcome their inconsistency.

Jevon Kearse was witnessed leaving the TennesseeA Titans' training facility Thursday in a walking cast, the result of an injury to his foot during the day's practice in preparation for the upcoming contest against the New England Patriots.