Nicholas Singleton

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• Week 2Sep 21, 2026

  Nicholas Singleton — Week 2: Four Carries, All on One Drive

  Singleton, inactive in Week 1, carried 4 times for 10 yards in his first regular-season game, all four on the 12-play, 69-yard third-quarter drive that tied the score at 17. He was not thrown to and did not return a kick. Tony Pollard carried 14 times and Tyjae Spears 7, in a 24–20 loss to the Eagles.

• Camp · Aug 31, 2026Aug 31, 2026

  Nicholas Singleton Camp Update — August 31: The Roster Math Came Back His Way

  Nicholas Singleton made the initial fifty-three after a week out of practice and no recorded rep in either of the last two preseason games, while the Titans released D'Ernest Johnson and Michael Carter and cut Kalel Mullings. Our last episode implied the sitting rookie was the one at risk. That read was wrong.

• Camp · Aug 23, 2026Aug 23, 2026

  Nicholas Singleton Camp Update — August 23: Another Week Without a Practice

  Nicholas Singleton did not practice this week — out Monday per Jim Wyatt and still missing time Friday per the A to Z Sports charting — with no diagnosis or timeline offered. For a fifth-round rookie in a crowded backfield, sitting out the week before cutdown is the wrong week to sit.

• Camp · Aug 16, 2026Aug 17, 2026

  Nicholas Singleton Camp Update — August 16: A Standout Tuesday, a Sore Saturday

  Singleton made the team site's standout list with multiple impressive runs and a touchdown in the joint practice against the 49ers, then sat Saturday managing soreness. The lottery ticket flashed; the crowded room above him did not move.

• 2026 PreviewJul 2, 2026

  Nicholas Singleton 2026 Season Preview — what we know, and what nobody does

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  Penn State's all-time touchdown leader is going at pick one 79 — the 50-fifth running back — which tells you the market read the depth chart before it read the highlight reel.

  The record: Tennessee drafted him in the fifth round, pick one 65, per 247Sports. At Penn State he set the program's career marks for total touchdowns and all-purpose yards — records that once belonged to Saquon Barkley, per the Titans' own bio. He broke a foot at the Senior Bowl, had it surgically repaired, and was medically cleared before the draft, per 247Sports.

  The situation is the reason for the price: Tony Pollard handled 275 touches last season and Tyjae Spears another hundred 17, and the new head coach, Robert Saleh, has called those two his bell cows, per A to Z Sports in June. Singleton missed the first week of team drills finishing the foot rehab, then rotated in with increasing frequency through minicamp, per the same beat coverage. The team's own materials talk up his receiving and kick-return value.

  Our stance doesn't change with the draft round: we can't tell you what a rookie produces, and neither can anyone else — we checked whether slot and spring buzz predict it, and they don't at a standard we'd cite. What pick one 79 buys you is a lottery ticket on a crowded room. We'll grade the results when they exist.

  September watch: special teams first — if he's returning kicks, he's active and involved — and any week Pollard's touch count dips, because that's the door. Your whole roster gets this treatment every week — that's the show.