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After a 3-14 decorativeness successful 2025, nan Tennessee Titans pivoted to a awesome offseason shakeup.
Brian Callahan was dismissed six games into his 2nd play arsenic caput coach. Robert Saleh near his protect coordinator domiciled pinch nan San Francisco 49ers successful January to switch Callahan.
In his 2nd chance arsenic an NFL caput coach, Saleh will beryllium tasked pinch guiding nan improvement of Cam Ward, past year’s No. 1 wide draught pick. Ward threw 15 touchdowns and 7 interceptions arsenic a rookie.
Saleh’s first rookie campy pinch nan Titans opened this week, but nan caller caput coach said Thursday his attraction extends beyond nan achromatic lines connected nan shot turf.
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Tennessee Titans coach Robert Saleh speaks pinch nan media earlier nan Titans rookie campy astatine Vanderbilt Health Football Center successful Nashville, Tennessee, connected May 1, 2026. (DENNY SIMMONS / THE TENNESSEAN / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)
Seed oils will nary longer beryllium disposable wrong nan Titans’ training installation successful Nashville, Saleh announced. The team’s nutrition unit is moving intimately pinch coaches and players during nan transition.
The Titans could target communal cooking oils specified arsenic canola and soybean for replacement pinch alternatives they judge whitethorn support subordinate performance.
A wide position of Nissan Stadium successful Nashville, Tennessee, anterior to nan NFL crippled betwixt nan New England Patriots and nan Tennessee Titans connected Oct. 19, 2025. (Kara Durrette/Getty Images)
"One of nan first things I deliberation that we did present is get free of each of nan seed oils successful nan building, which I deliberation nan players appreciate. Ms. Amy [Adams Strunk, controlling owner] has allowed america to onslaught nan fund and get nan players a amended variety," Saleh told reporters.
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"I’ve been successful six different buildings, and I’d put this unit up location pinch nan champion of them. The merchandise they put retired successful nan cafeteria regular is outstanding."
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Saleh’s announcement ignited statement crossed nan nutrition community, which remains divided connected nan topic.
"There is abundant grounds suggesting that seed oils are not bad for you. If anything, they are bully for you," said Matti Marklund, Ph.D., M.S.E., an adjunct professor astatine Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Marklund besides based on seed oils "have been demonized based connected misunderstandings of really they’re made and really nan quality assemblage uses them, arsenic good arsenic their ubiquity successful ultraprocessed foods."
Tennessee Titans coach Robert Saleh and violative coordinator Brian Daboll talk during stretching astatine nan Titans rookie campy astatine Vanderbilt Health Football Center successful Nashville, Tennessee, connected May 2, 2026. (DENNY SIMMONS / THE TENNESSEAN / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)
The Titans unfastened nan regular play Sept. 13 by hosting nan New York Jets, nan squad Saleh coached from 2021-24.
Historically, seed oils person not been straight tied to NFL supplier argumentation violations, but players whitethorn still want to see really definite oils are processed.
Hemp seed lipid mostly has been recovered to beryllium free of cannabinoids and is improbable to trigger a affirmative THC test. But unrefined hemp oils, hemp seed macromolecule powders and products made pinch full aliases crushed hemp seeds tin incorporate trace THC metabolites. Elevated levels of those metabolites successful an athlete’s strategy could perchance support a affirmative marijuana trial result.
Hemp seed lipid is commonly utilized successful crockery dressings aliases drizzled complete vanished dishes specified arsenic soups, roasted vegetables and pasta. It besides tin beryllium added to acold dips and sauces aliases blended into mayonnaise and hummus.
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Poppy seed oil, which is sometimes utilized successful muffins and bagels, besides tin incorporate trace amounts of morphine and codeine. Consuming precocious amounts of nan lipid could trigger a affirmative supplier test, according to nan U.S. National Library of Medicine.
"Ingestion of poppy seeds containing morphine and codeine tin output affirmative addict tests and mislead consequence mentation successful forensic and objective settings. Multiple publications evaluated urine addict concentrations pursuing poppy seed ingestion," according to nan NLM.
In 2016, nan independent administrator of nan NFL’s drug-testing programme warned players against eating nutrient produced successful China and Mexico complete concerns astir clenbuterol contamination. Clenbuterol is simply a stimulant associated pinch musculus maturation and weight loss.
The constituent is prohibited nether nan league’s performance-enhancing supplier policy. "Consuming ample quantities of nutrient while visiting those peculiar countries whitethorn consequence successful a affirmative test," nan administrator’s memo said astatine nan time.
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Chantz Martin is simply a sports writer for Fox News Digital.
