Jeffery Simmons remains the centerpiece, but John Franklin-Myers, Jordan Elliott, Solomon Thomas and Jackie Marshall give Robert Saleh an entirely new interior rotation.
By DREW BEATTY
In what was overall a suffocatingly bad year for the Tennessee Titans defense in 2025, their interior defensive line room had a clear case for being the best position room on the entire roster. The trio of Jeffery Simmons, T’Vondre Sweat and Sebastian Joseph-Day continued to be a scarce bright spot on an otherwise dilapidated team.
Coming off of a season in which Simmons had a career year, Sweat performed as an important role player and Joseph-Day once again proved himself to be one of the most underrated veteran contributors in the league, one would think that a cohesive, effective interior defensive line unit would be an anchor on a young, rebuilding roster. However, after bringing on defensive head coach Robert Saleh to lead the team into its next phase, Mike Borgonzi decided to overhaul even the most stable unit on the Titans’ 2025 roster. The only holdover member of the 2025 core rotation is Jeffery Simmons.
