NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Ryan Succop is on PUP to start training camp as a result of knee surgery that followed the 2018 season that did not go as neatly as planned.

Succop had a troublesome knee cleaned up sometime after the season, but it had some swelling after the fact and did not respond the way it was expected to.

Indications are the issue that prompted the surgery did not affect his kicking during the season -- he hit 26 of 30 field goals -- and that the team expects him to be fine in time for the regular-season opener Sept. 8 in Cleveland. [Unlocked]

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The Titans will open camp with Jonnu Smith on the physically unable to perform list and Jeffery Simmons on the non-football injury list.

Smith is recovering from a knee injury suffered against the Jaguars on Dec. 6, 2018.

After my report on Smith and Simmons the Titans officially announced those two moves and also said that Jurrell Casey (knee) and Ryan Succop are also on PUP. 

They can attend meetings and work out but not practice. The Titans can move them to the roster at any point in camp.

If they remain on PUP into the season, they do not count against the 53-man roster. Then they may not practice or play for the first six weeks of the season. After six weeks they must be activated for practice or be placed on IR. Once they practice, they have a three-week window to be moved to the active roster or moved to IR. [Unlocked]

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – We’re here, the week where the Titans’ 2019 season gets set in motion.

Quarterbacks, rookies and injured players report Monday, everyone else will join them on Thursday.

There are seasons where incremental gains are an accomplishment, where a change in tone is a big win, where a slight advance qualifies as a big success.

This is not one of those years.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Years ago, when I was driven out of a lovely Nashville neighborhood of bungalows by a country music star who insisted on building a tower with a recording studio and a dance club right next door, I left a box in a high storage area of our old house

Remarkably, about 13 years later, the owner reached out to my wife to see if it was ours and I was able to go pick it up.

I'm not one to display a bunch of memorabilia. But if I was, the box was filled with the sort of stuff that would be on offices shelves not in storage.

I opened it in this video with the assistance of my nine-year-old son. I think you will really be interested in a couple of the items that qualify as one-of-a-kind Titans' stuff.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Frank Wycheck remains one of the most popular players in Titans' history.

After his 11-year career, he was an accessible radio presence in town, as the color analyst on Titans Radio’s game broadcasts and as part of the Wake Up Zone on 104.5 The Zone, where I spent an hour three mornings a week bantering with him and his co-hosts.

Before those jobs ended, a guy with back problems talked openly about how he believed he’d have CTE as a result of concussions and hits to the head during his 11-year career.

The combination of the successful career as an underdog, the charming radio personality and the health concerns continued to make him a very likable guy. And because he’s sort of retreated from public life there is some mystery about him now. [Unlocked]

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – So Mike Vrabel did clever work to fend it off.

During his appearance on “Bussin’ with the Boys,” the fun podcast hosted by Taylor Lewan and Will Compton he said lazy reporters were bound to pick up something from it and make it a story.

Then on the episode, where a generally unguarded guy was even more unguarded, he said something that he was absolutely worthy of being picked up and written about. [Unlocked]

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The Titans’ upgrades at wide receiver bump some guys down to more suitable spots in the rotation.

Corey Davis should be the guy with the most snaps, and Adam Humphries may be right behind him depending on how the Titans deploy him outside of three-wide sets when he’s automatically the slot guy.

The hope would be that A.J. Brown will quickly establish himself as a top-three guy, which would then rank Taywan Taylor fourth, Tajae Sharpe fifth and Darius Jennings and Cameron Batson vying for sixth and seventh -- spots that 

The Titans started last season with six wide receivers on the roster: Davis, Rishard Matthews, Taylor, Sharpe, Batson and Jennings. They finished the year with five: That group minus Matthews, who asked for and got his release early in the season.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The Titans will hold just nine training camp practices es open to fans starting on July 27.

Click below to see the list.