‘I'm healthy as I've ever been‘ L’Jarius Sneed speaks for the first time on his rehab and mindset ahead of crucial 2025 season

The Tennessee Titans have a giant question mark on defense named L’Jarius Sneed. And for the first time all offseason, we have new information on his situation directly from the source.

The biggest trade of the (albeit short) GM Ran Carthon Era was Tennessee sending the Kansas City Chiefs a 3rd round pick for the privilege of signing CB L’Jarius Sneed to a giant deal; a 4 year, $76.4 million deal to be exact. That made him one of the highest paid corners in the NFL at the time, and a year later that remains the case.

In his first month as a Titan, Sneed was a fine corner. The problem with that is the fact that Tennessee was paying him to be L’Jarius Sneed—A 2-time Super Bowl winning lockdown butt kicker—not a “fine corner”. And in his fourth and worst game of the 2024 season, he suffered a bizarre quad injury, the severity of which only became apparently as the weeks passed. He ended up missing the rest of the year, and his rehab has continued into this offseason.

We’ve heard from his coaches and teammates, who have had nothing but good things to say about him and his impact on the team. But Sneed himself has been a ghost that those of us in the media have only caught glimpses of at Tennessee’s facility throughout the offseason program. Nobody has heard from him since he spoke with us on locker clean-out day in January. That is, nobody has heard from him until now.

KTAL News caught up with Sneed at his 3rd annual youth football camp in his native Minden, Louisiana. Here’s what the Titans starter had to say about his offseason so far:

“I'm healthy, I'm healthy as I've ever been. You know, last year, my first year (in Tennessee) didn't go as planned. But, you know, it's time to come out and show the world and show what God has been instilling in me this entire year.

I'm ready to get back on the field, and that's my life, that's what I do for a living. And I missed a whole year, and you know, I have to remind everybody who L’Jarius Sneed is.”

This should come as a relative sigh of relief from Titans fans, to hear this level of confidence from the man himself. It’s a reason for optimism heading into the new season, but until he gets back to producing the way they need him to—with consistency and availability—Sneed is going to remain the biggest question mark on this defense.

The amount the Titans are paying him isn’t the only reason he’s such a hot topic. It has just as much to do with the fact that he may very well be the linchpin that could hold a flimsy defense together. More on that linked here. Showing up at training camp as healthy as he claims to be and practicing more than we saw in 2025, which his coaches have said they want, is the next step for the Titans top corner. I look forward to seeing him then.