The Tennessee Titans cut defensive lineman Jordan Elliott after he took a gun to the team’s training facility in a “terrible lapse of judgment,” officials said Wednesday.
\n\nTitans coach Robert Saleh defended Elliott and called him “a good man” who deserves another chance — just not in Tennessee.
\n\n“He’s a good man [who] had a terrible lapse in judgment that I recognize as a call for help more than a criminal act,” Saleh told reporters. “It’s unfortunate the way it went down.”
\n\nUnion officials and Elliott’s agent could not immediately be reached for comment Wednesday.
\n\nIt wasn’t immediately clear what might have prompted Elliott to take a firearm to the team’s Nashville headquarters.
\n\nNashville police were not called and did not respond to the scene, the police department said Wednesday.
\n\n“The league’s firearm policy prohibits any personnel from bringing a firearm to club facilities, stadiums, and team hotels and on team planes or buses,” the NFL said in a statement Wednesday. “The club promptly notified the league of the matter which is under review.”
\n\nElliott had played in Tennessee’s first five games this season before he was listed as inactive Sunday for “not injury related, personal” reasons.
\n\nThen, by Tuesday…
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