The Tennessee Titans have been snake-bitten by injuries in a big way the last few years, leaving just a handful of players to have played in every game since 2021.
Last season, the Titans fielded an NFL record 91 players due to injuries, and they are likely to approach that number once again in 2022 after another injury-plagued campaign.
Tennessee currently ranks fourth in the NFL this season in most games missed by players because of injury with 125, per Man Games Lost.
With all the players the Titans have rostered since 2021, only four of them have played in every single game going into Week 10 of the 2022 season, according to Titan Sized’s Will Lomas.
Just so we are all clear on how injured this Tennessee #Titans team has been over the last 25 games, here are the players who has played (not started, just played) every game over the last year and a half:
1. Kevin Byard
2. Denico Autry
3. Ben Jones
4. Morgan CoxThat’s it.
— Sacrifice Todd Downing (@jlomas72) November 12, 2022
Those four players are defensive lineman Denico Autry, center Ben Jones, long snapper Morgan Cox and safety Kevin Byard.
Jones and Byard have been true iron men during their days with the Titans, as Byard has never missed a single game over six-plus years, while Jones has missed just one, which came in 2019 due to a concussion.
Cox and Autry were both free-agent additions during the 2021 offseason, but Autry in particular has been arguably the best one in the Jon Robinson era.
The veteran tied his career-high with nine sacks last season, ranking second on the team, and he has followed that up with seven sacks through eight games this year, the most on the team.
This injury statistic makes us appreciate guys like Autry, Byard, Jones and Cox even more, but it also reminds us that the Titans are absolutely cursed with injuries.