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Titans QB Cam Ward’s rookie season ends with early exit from finale

AP photo by Phelan M. Ebenhack / Tennessee Titans quarterback Cam Ward, with his throwing arm in a sling after hurting his shoulder early in the game, leaves the field following the team's loss to the host Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday at Everbank Stadium.
AP photo by Phelan M. Ebenhack / Tennessee Titans quarterback Cam Ward, with his throwing arm in a sling after hurting his shoulder early in the game, leaves the field following the team's loss to the host Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday at Everbank Stadium. AP photo by Phelan M. Ebenhack / Tennessee Titans quarterback Cam Ward, with his throwing arm in a sling after hurting his shoulder early in the game, leaves the field following the team's loss to the host Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday at Everbank Stadium.

By MARK LONG / The Associated Press 3 min read

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Tennessee Titans quarterback Cam Ward was set to have more tests on his injured right shoulder when the team returned home from its season finale.

Interim coach Mike McCoy said he would provide “a better answer down the road” as to the extent of Ward’s injury.

The No. 1 overall pick of last April’s draft landed on his throwing shoulder during a 7-yard touchdown run in the first quarter of Sunday’s 41-7 loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars at Everbank Stadium. Jacksonville linebacker Foye Oluokun hit Ward at the goal line. The rookie was slow getting up and then got checked out inside Tennessee’s medical tent on the visitors’ sideline before leaving the field to get X-rays.

He returned to the sideline in the second half wearing a sling on his right arm and shoulder.

“It stings that he gets hurt in general,” McCoy said. “The way he’s played all year long, the way he’s learned and grown as a player, getting better — you don’t ever want to see anybody get injured. It’s unfortunate.