Titans Release Cb L'jarius Sneed After Two Seasons. Here's Why

The Tennessee Titans are releasing their two-time Super Bowl champion starting cornerback.

L'Jarius Sneed will hit free agency shortly after the start of the new league year with the Titans' decision to release him. ESPN's Adam Schefter was first with the news of the March 13 transaction.

Tennessee will save $11.4 million against the salary cap with the move and eat $8.1 million in dead money. The Titans led the NFL with $70.2 million in cap space before the release was finalized; they will see their cap space rise above $80 million when Sneed's release is official.

Sneed, 29, first landed in Tennessee via trade from the Kansas City Chiefs in 2024, a few weeks after the Chiefs placed the franchise tag on the cornerback. The Titans acquired Sneed in exchange for a 2024 third-round pick and a seventh-round pick swap. Tennessee signed Sneed to a four-year, $76.4 million extension after the trade was finalized.

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The veteran cornerback played in 12 games – starting in all of them – across two seasons with the Titans. Season-ending quad injuries in back-to-back years prevented him from playing in more.

Sneed had surgery to address his initial quad injury from the 2024 season and missed Tennessee's OTAs and minicamp last spring. Seven weeks into the 2025 season, the Louisiana Tech product suffered another quad injury that shut him down for the season.

In his two seasons with the Titans, Sneed recorded 49 tackles and three pass defenses across 12 games.

Sneed won two Super Bowl titles in his last two seasons with Kansas City prior to the trade that landed him in Nashville. He started in all but one game – a Week 18 game during the 2023 season when Kansas City rested its starters – for the Chiefs during their two most recent Super Bowl-winning seasons.

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: L'Jarius Sneed becomes latest NFL free agent with Titans release