The Tennessee Titans fired general manager Ran Carthon on Tuesday, roughly 48 hours after the team locked up the No. 1 pick in the upcoming draft. While a two-year run for a general manager is not without precedent, it’s alarmingly short. Also alarming is the path that Tennessee took to arrive at this moment, ahead of not only the franchise’s most important draft selection since 2015 but the completion of the team’s new stadium in downtown Nashville.
These must be disorienting times for those who have closely followed this franchise and remember it being the No. 1 seed in the AFC playoffs not long ago. In 2022, the Titans fired general manager Jon Robinson because, as owner Amy Adams Strunk said in a statement: “I believe there is more to be done and higher aspirations to be met.”
