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Carnell Tate caught nine passes for 145 yards Sunday in Baltimore, more yardage than the rookie had in his first three NFL games combined. Tony Pollard got the ball four straight times from inside the Ravens’ 8-yard line, and the Tennessee Titans left that drive with no points.
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Those two performances sum up a 24-18 loss that dropped Tennessee to 0-4. The Titans trailed 24-7 at halftime, shut out Baltimore after the break and pulled within six on Cam Ward’s 3-yard touchdown pass to Wan’Dale Robinson with 1:12 left. The Ravens recovered the onside kick and ran out the clock.
Stock up: Carnell Tate
Tate came into the week with 13 catches for 123 yards and a long reception of 20. He had three catches of 22 yards or more against the Ravens, and his 145 yards were the most by a Titans receiver since A.J. Brown in 2021. No Tennessee rookie had caught nine passes in a game since Kendall Wright in 2012.
It wasn’t a clean day. Tate lost a fumble at the end of a long catch in the second quarter, and Baltimore turned it into a 64-yard field goal.
“I have to hold onto the ball,” Tate said afterward. Even with the turnover, Ward has a No. 1 target who can win downfield.
Stock up: Jermaine Johnson II
Johnson got his first sack as a Titan, dropping Lamar Jackson for a 5-yard loss, and tied a career high with two tackles for loss. The team credited him with three quarterback pressures.
He was part of a front that held Derrick Henry to 73 yards on 23 carries, a 3.2-yard average, with a long run of 14. Baltimore converted just 2 of 10 third downs and was shut out in the second half, the first time Tennessee has done that to an opponent since Oct. 5, 2025.
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Stock down: Tony Pollard
Pollard scored his first touchdown of the season, but his 16 carries produced 48 yards. A first-quarter flip from Ward went off his hands for an interception that led to a Ravens touchdown.
Then came the goal-line series. Pollard gained 3 yards, 2 yards and 1 yard before he was stopped on fourth down at the 2. He entered the game with the eighth-best PFF grade among qualifying running backs at 76.0, and his name is already surfacing in trade talk ahead of the November deadline.
“Every day of the week… I expect to make that play,” Pollard said of the flip.
Stock down: Brian Daboll
The offensive coordinator called four consecutive runs on that series. Baltimore answered with an eight-play, 98-yard touchdown drive to go up 21-7, a 14-point swing in a game decided by six.
“Felt like we were running the ball pretty well. That’s something I’ll definitely have a conversation with Daboll about,” head coach Robert Saleh said.
Tennessee came in having scored touchdowns on just four of eight red-zone trips, and the trouble finishing drives followed the offense to Baltimore. The Titans also went three-and-out three times after halftime.
The Titans host the Houston Texans at Nissan Stadium on Sunday, Oct. 11, with kickoff set for noon CT.
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This story was originally published October 5, 2026 at 3:30 AM.