The Tennessee Titans have largely had a forgettable season in 2023. They haven’t won away from Nissan Stadium since last November, with all of their wins in 2023 coming against teams that currently have losing records.
To add salt to the wound, Tennessee has drastically underwhelmed in practically every major statistical category through 11 games.
The offense ranks in the bottom half of the league in several notable areas, including scoring offense and total offense. Meanwhile, a defense that was expected to be an elite unit is hovering around the league average, landing no higher than 15th in most of the categories listed below.
However, the Titans’ scoring defense made a noticeable jump into the top 10 after holding the 1-10 Panthers to just 10 points in Week 12.
Despite their occasional success at holding teams to low-scoring outputs, a lot of that goes to waste due to the offense’s inability to put up points.
Tennessee often preaches how it wants to bend but not break, but that ideology only works when you play complementary football. Until they do, the Titans’ ceiling is going to be limited.
Listed below are the Titans’ rankings in every major statistical category after the first 12 weeks of the NFL season. All of the data used in this article was collected from the Team Rankings website, unless noted otherwise.
Points per game
- 16.8 points per game
- Tied for 26th in NFL
- Fourth in AFC South
Points allowed per game
- 20.4 points allowed per game
- Tied for ninth in NFL
- First in AFC South
Yards per game
- 284.0 yards per game
- Tied for 28th in NFL
- Fourth in AFC South
Yards allowed per game
- 335.4 yards allowed per game
- 17th in NFL
- First in AFC South
Passing yards per game
- 181.3 passing yards per game
- 26th in NFL
- Fourth in AFC South
Passing yards allowed per game
- 224.5 passing yards allowed per game
- 19th in NFL
- Second in AFC South
Rushing yards per game
- 102.7 rushing yards per game
- Tied for 21st in NFL
- Third in AFC South
Rushing yards allowed per game
- 110.8 rushing yards allowed per game
- 15th in NFL
- Third in AFC South
Takeaways per game
- 0.7 takeaways per game
- Eight in total
- 31st in NFL
- Fourth in AFC South
Giveaways per game
- 1.1 giveaways per game
- 12 in total
- Tied for sixth in NFL
- Second in AFC South
Turnover differential
- -4 turnover differential
- Tied for 21st in NFL
- Fourth in AFC South
*Data collected from The Football Database*
Sacks
- 29 sacks
- 17th in NFL
- Second in AFC South
Sacks allowed
- 36 sacks allowed
- Fifth-most in NFL
- Most in AFC South