After a flurry of activity on Wednesday, it was mostly silence at the Tennessee Titans‘ facilities on Thursday, but that doesn’t mean some of their former players weren’t making news.
The latest was cornerback Kaiir Elam, who joined the Titans in November and signed a one-year deal with the Kansas City Chiefs earlier in the day.
Elam entered the league as a first-round pick (23rd overall) of the Buffalo Bills in the 2022 NFL Draft out of Florida, and has since spent time with the Bills and the Dallas Cowboys. The 6-foot-1, 191-pound cornerback has seen action in 39 games (19 starts) between the Bills and Cowboys and accumulated 110 tackles and two interceptions.
Sources: The #Chiefs are signing free agent CB Kaiir Elam.
The former 1st-round pick is only 24 years old and will help bolster Kansas City’s secondary. pic.twitter.com/IMeh6oVRDo
— Jordan Schultz (@Schultz_Report) April 2, 2026
Elam never met expectations with Buffalo and was traded during the offseason to the Cowboys, and played 460 snaps before being released. After signing with the Titans, he saw action in four games with the Titans, recording 33 total tackles (22 solo) with two fumble recoveries.
He will now join a Chiefs franchise that ironically traded up to the 22nd spot (one ahead of the Bills) to select cornerback Trent McDuffie in the 2022 NFL Draft, one of the players he will be trying to replace in 2026.
This article originally appeared on Titans Wire: Tennessee Titans lose CB Kaiir Elam to the Kansas City Chiefs
