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Titans Release Player After Gun Incident at Practice

4 sources · updated 2026-10-21
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What happened

On Thursday, October 15, Tennessee Titans defensive lineman Jordan Elliott scuffled with right tackle JC Latham during practice and was ordered off the field. He took off his pads, left the facility, and went to the players' parking lot, where security cameras captured him retrieving a gun from his car; teammate John Franklin-Myers talked him down and no one was hurt. Elliott missed Friday practice for what the team called personal reasons and was inactive for Sunday's 26-20 win over the Indianapolis Colts. After reviewing the footage, the Titans released him on Tuesday from the two-year, $8 million contract he had signed in the offseason, stating there had been an incident at the facility and they would have no further comment. Metro Nashville Police said they had received no report of the incident and had not been contacted by the team.
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How it developed
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Omitted — what each side leaves out

Unpacked

Right-leaning coverage was more complete on the aftermath, reporting that police were never contacted after Elliott went to his car for a gun, a fact left-leaning coverage omitted. A reader of only the latter would not know whether this was a crime or a locker-room matter handled in-house. The Metro Nashville Police Department had received no reports and had not been contacted by the team, according to Daily Wire. The club informed the NFL instead of filing a report, according to Fox News. Right-leaning coverage passed a verdict on the gun trip that left-leaning coverage never did. The phrase "major over-reaction" ran in Fox News, not in the Guardian's account of the same scuffle and retrieval. Did Elliott carry the weapon back toward teammates, or was he stopped at the car?
Bottom line

The Guardian never mentions police in the Titans gun story. Daily Wire is the outlet that reports Nashville's department had no report at all.

The receipts — 5 facts one side's coverage lacks
  • Metro Nashville Police Department received no reports of the incident and had not been contacted by the team official statementin Daily Wire · absent from left-leaning coverage
  • The Titans informed the NFL of the incident and did not file a police report contextin Fox News · absent from left-leaning coverage
  • The argument spilled into the locker room after practice individual casein Daily Wire, Fox News · absent from left-leaning coverage
  • Elliott apparently grabbed JC Latham's facemask during the practice fight individual casein Fox News · absent from left-leaning coverage
  • An NFL source said Elliott had been having problems away from the building and brought them to work individual casein Daily Wire · absent from left-leaning coverage
The Left View
The Guardian leads with the firearm, presenting Elliott's release as the result of him having 'fetched gun following scuffle in practice,' then walking through the camera footage, the de-escalation, and the club's review. It stays close to that sequence and to the Titans' on-the-record statement, without calling the conduct crazy or tying it to problems away from the building.
The Right View
Right-leaning outlets treat the same episode as a career-ending overreaction. Fox News, citing OutKick, called retrieving a weapon after a practice fight a 'major over-reaction' and said a quick landing elsewhere is 'highly improbable'; the Daily Wire framed it as a 'gun scare' that 'costs him' a multimillion-dollar deal. An NFL source in that coverage called the incident 'absolutely crazy' and said Elliott 'has been having a lot of problems away from the building and obviously he brought it to work with him.' Those pieces also note the team informed the NFL but did not file a police report. An earlier Fox write-up had instead nested the cut in the afterglow of the team's first win, calling the move surprising and the incident then 'unspecified.'
Our Take (balanced)
The Guardian's strongest argument is procedural: after reviewing facility footage, the Titans cut Elliott and closed public comment, so the story is an internal workplace incident that ended in a roster decision. Right-leaning sources' strongest argument is disproportion, backed by the NFL source who called fetching a gun after a practice scuffle 'absolutely crazy' and by the forfeited $8 million contract. The central unresolved tension is how far to go beyond the team's silence—whether this is primarily a completed personnel action, or a character and safety failure that police never formally recorded and that the club has not confirmed in detail on the record.

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