Yesterday the Tennessee Titans announced the release of defensive lineman Jordan Elliott after making him a healthy scratch in Week 6. The team cited an unspecified “incident” as the reason for his release. But that reason has reportedly been revealed.
According to Easton Freeze and Austin Stanley of A to Z Sports, a firearm was involved in the incident. Per the report, Elliott “had grown frustrated” with a teammate during practice on October 15 and was “seen storming out of the locker room upset.” Then this happened:
“According to multiple sources, Elliott then went to the players’ parking garage next to the facility, to retrieve a firearm from his vehicle,” Freeze and Stanley wrote. “The situation was deescalated before there was any altercation involving the firearm.”
Fans were stunned and horrified.
Many NFL fans were disappointed that a player would throw his career away because he got a little too emotional while others believe that he should probably be arrested over it.
“Imagine working your entire life to do your dream job and you throw it away because you’re emotional. What a dummy,” one user on X wrote.
“He needs to be arrested for doing that. He got off the hook lightly,” wrote another.
“It doesn’t get much scarier than this in the NFL,” a third wrote.
“Thankful that JFM was able to help deescalate the situation and prevent this from being a much more tragic incident. I’ll never understand for the life of me why everyone nowadays resorts to guns over the most minuscule of disputes.”
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Elliott joined the Titans on a two-year, $8 million contract this past offseason after six solid seasons as a run defender on the Cleveland Browns and San Francisco 49ers.
In five games for the Titans before the incident and his subsequent benching, Elliott had 11 tackles.
