Titans cut DT Jordan Elliott following incident at team facility

The Tennessee Titans have released veteran defensive tackle Jordan Elliott following an incident at the team facility last week, cutting ties with a March free-agent addition in the middle of his first season with the club.

The team's statement, as relayed by Ari Meirov, confirms the review is closed and that Tennessee will say nothing further about what happened on Oct. 15 — leaving the specifics of the incident undisclosed. Elliott had 65 career starts on his résumé and had appeared in five games this season for the Titans.

Tennessee has not publicly connected the personal matter to the facility incident, and the club's statement does not describe the incident itself. The transaction nonetheless removes a lineman the Titans had counted on in their defensive front rotation.

Elliott signed a two-year, $8 million deal in March as part of Robert Saleh's first roster build in Tennessee, one of a cluster of defensive additions that also included John Franklin-Myers on a three-year, $63 million contract and Solomon Thomas via trade, per Ari Meirov's recap of the Titans' offseason. Elliott was the interior depth piece in that group rather than the headliner, but the interior is now thinner behind Franklin-Myers and Thomas.

For a first-year staff that has spent the season reworking the roster, the release is another mid-week adjustment to a position group that was supposed to be settled. Tennessee's front will have to absorb the lost snaps from the rotation rather than from a single replacement.