T’Vondre Sweat isn’t the only young Titans player trying to copy Jeffery Simmons’ new lifestyle to get All Pro results in 2026

Jeffery Simmons changed his entire lifestyle and got incredible results. Now he’s evangelizing to his locker room.

Easton Freeze — Tennessee Titans Beat Writer
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Nothing about the Tennessee Titans brutal 2025 season was more impressive than the play of their best player, Jeffery Simmons.

He was the best he’s ever been in Year 7, earning Pro Bowl and 1st team All Pro recognition. He cracked double-digit sacks for the first time in his career with 11, managed 17 TFLs and 21 QB hits, forced 3 fumbles and a safety, and even scored a receiving touchdown. Simmons was exceptional all season long.

Just as impressive as his on-field play was his transformation off of the field. I wrote here about the giant step in leadership that Simmons took, earning the praise of his teammates, coaches, and Titans executives alike. He was in every way the model of a franchise player in 2025.

On Radio Row in San Francisco, he shared about his lifestyle change that made his season possible. And he spoke candidly about DT T’Vondre Sweat working to take the next step, who Simmons says isn’t the only young player trying to copy his methods.

Jeffery Simmons unpacks his opinion of T’Vondre Sweat

On with 104.5 The Zone’s 3HL during Super Bowl week, Simmons shared how he’s trying to take his lifestyle revolution and turn it into a good influence on younger players like Sweat:

“Especially with so many young guys, I mean (T’Vondre) Sweat—It’s the type of thing I want to preach to him, like, don’t wait until it’s too late! I was going on year 7 when I realized, like, you know what’s crazy? My uncle has been telling me ‘I want to see you at 295.’ This is something he’s been telling me since three years ago. But in my mind I’m like, I’m 310, I’m good!”

Simmons said that he’s reached the point of feeling addicted to the healthy Jeff Simmons lifestyle, and now he’s looking to evangelize. Sweat is the obvious target for such mentorship, but he isn’t the only one Simmons has picking his brain:

“Now for me, it’s like how can I spread this to guys like Sweat? How can I spread this? I mean, you’ve got (Chimere) Dike, he plays receiver. But he’s coming up to me like ‘bro, what did you do? Can you give me your plan of your offseason?’ It’s things like that to where I want to be able to be that leader, not just with the play on the football field, but I want to show guys like, I didn’t live that life and was just enjoying the offseason until to the last minute… That’s all my goal is, man.”

Host Brent Dougherty asked Simmons point blank what he sees in T’Vondre Sweat.

“He’s got it, man” Simmons said without hesitation. “Like I said, it’s getting over that hump. He’s got to tap into it. Getting over that hump. It’s the same thing as any football player would tell you is, how can I tap into that different place? And I’m looking forward to being in Dallas with him a little bit this offseason. I’m looking forward to even starting off OTA’s with a new coach just to be around him… like I said, I need him. The better he play, the more he play.”

Spinning the conversation back to Simmons’ lament about not taking his lifestyle seriously enough as a young player, he continued:

“He’s still a young player. I knew where I was at going on year three. He just finished year two, so I know where I was at. So it’s not one of those things to where I’m like ‘you got to do this, you got to do that.’ But it’s also one of the things to where I’m trying to preach to him, because I see the potential.”

Simmons tried to get Sweat to train with him at his offseason home base in Dallas last year, but the young defender never made it out there. This year, Simmons told us on locker clean out day that he’s dragging Sweat there if he has to.

“He’s going to be good for us. And like I said, this offseason, I know he’s going to tap into that spot and that different place. And I’m going to connect him with my nutritionist and all that.”

He also shared how Sweat’s enthusiasm this time around is different:

“He kind of almost got on my nerves at one point… I think I was at dinner with my girl one night or something. He was just blowing me up and he ended up calling my other phone. I’m like, is this an emergency? It isn’t like some type of emergency. I ended up calling him back. He was like ‘yo bro, what’s the area should I book the Airbnb in?’ I’m like, bro, did you just call me a million times for my Airbnb? So like I said, he’s excited.”

I’ve been a proponent of Sweat since long before the Titans ultimately drafted him, and I’m excited to see him in a Robert Saleh defense. If he can crush this offseason under Simmons’ wing, he could be poised for a breakout third season.

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