Titans 2025 Final Cuts Live Tracker: Updates on Tennessee’s roster cutdown transactions on their way to the initial 53-man roster

UPDATE: This tracker is no longer being updated, as the Titans full 53-man roster is now out. Click here to see who did and didn’t make the cut. The Tennessee Titans (and every other team in the NFL) must cut their 90-man rosters down to 53 active players by the 3:00pm CST deadline this Tuesday. […]

Easton Freeze — Tennessee Titans Beat Writer
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UPDATE: This tracker is no longer being updated, as the Titans full 53-man roster is now out. Click here to see who did and didn’t make the cut.

The Tennessee Titans (and every other team in the NFL) must cut their 90-man rosters down to 53 active players by the 3:00pm CST deadline this Tuesday. Some difficult decisions have to be made, practice squad candidates have to be taken into consideration, and the Titans front office has to keep a keen eye on cuts around the league who they would be interested in adding with the 1st overall waiver claim spot. This article will track all the cut and release transactions as the Titans make them.

Tennessee Titans Cuts Tracker (Live Updates)

53-Man Roster Confirmations

Here is the running list of players on the roster bubble that have been confirmed as surviving the initial cutdown deadline:

Here is a list of the players locked in already that don’t need any confirmation. Take my word for it or don’t, but I know a thing or two about how this roster is being put together…

  • QB Cam Ward
  • RBs Tony Pollard and Kalel Mullings
  • WRs Calvin Ridley, Tyler Lockett, Elic Ayomanor, Van Jefferson, Bryce Oliver, and Chimere Dike
  • TEs Chig Okonkwo, Gunnar Helm, and David Martin-Robinson
  • OTs Dan Moore and JC Latham
  • OL Peter Skoronski, Lloyd Cushenberry, Kevin Zeitler, Corey Levin, Jackson Slater, and Blake Hance
  • DL Jeffery Simmons, T’Vondre Sweat, and Sebastian Joseph-Day
  • EDGEs Dre-Mont Jones, Arden Key, and Femi Oladejo
  • LBs Cody Barton, James Williams, and Cedric Gray
  • CBs L’Jarius Sneed, Jarvis Brownlee Jr, Roger McCreary, and Marcus Harris
  • S Amani Hooker, Xavier Woods, and Kevin Winston Jr.
  • LS Morgan Cox

Transaction Terms To Know

Release: Any player with four or more accrued seasons are “vested veterans”, and can be released. Their status means they aren’t subject to waivers, and become free agents once the team lets them go. That means they can choose to sign with whichever team they wish. An accrued season is any year in which a player spends at least three regular season games on the active roster, Injured Reserve list, or Physically Unable to Perform list.

Waiver: Players who do not qualify as vested veterans are not immediately released from their current contracts. They are subject to the waiver wire, in which every other NFL team can submit a claim for the player’s contract. If more than one team submits a claim for a player, the team with the higher waiver priority is awarded the contract. The waiver order is the original draft order, beginning with the Titans, through Week 3 of the regular season. If a player passes through waivers and no team claims them, they then become a free agent and can sign a new contract wherever they wish.

Waived/Injured: If a non-vested veteran fails to pass their physical before being released, he receives a waived/injured designation. He is then subject to waivers, and reverts back to his original team’s Injured Reserve list if no team claims him.

Injured Reserve: New-ish rule! Up until last year, players had to make the initial 53-man roster and then be placed on IR to be eligible to return later in the season. In other words, players put on IR before making the initial roster were done for the season. But now, two players are allowed to be placed on IR on the Tuesday of final cuts with a designation to return after at least four game weeks.

PUP/NFI: Players who don’t pass their physical at the beginning of training camp are placed on the Physically Unable to Perform (PUP) list if they’re dealing with a football-related injury, or the Non-Football Injury (NFI) list if it’s an injury suffered outside of NFL activities. Players on the NFI list are not entitled to receive their salary. On cutdown day, teams must choose to either activate these players to their 53-man roster or place them on the Inactive PUP/NFI. players on that list do not count towards a team’s 53, and must miss at least four game weeks before being eligible for activation.

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