Titans Linebacker Will Witherspoon Delivers 'Courageous' Performance

by John OehserFiled under: Titans, AFC SouthBy late in the week, the Tennessee Titans had a good idea Will Witherspoon would play in the regular-season opener. It was how well he played that impressed teammates and coaches Sunday. Witherspoon, who returned to Nashville late Saturday following funeral services for his mother, indeed played and started the Titans' regular-season opener Sunday, registering a sack, six tackles, a tackle for loss and a quarterback hurry in a 38-13 victory over Oakland in Nashville. His mother, Nora Lee Cooper Witherspoon, was 56. Witherspoon received word of his mother's death Tuesday. "I'm honoring what my mother would have wanted me to do," Witherspoon said following a dominant performance by the Titans' defense. "I've had to focus on my family and make sure they were OK. That's what I did first. And all of them were pushing me to say 'You know, it's what she would have wanted you to do. You get out th...