LAS VEGAS (AP) — Geno Smith handed for 174 yards and a landing, and Devin White led a suffocating Raiders protection as Las Vegas defeated the Tennessee Titans 20-10 on Sunday.
The Raiders (2-4) ended a four-game skid, and the Titans (1-5) missed a possibility to win consecutive video games for the primary time since November of 2022, a 47-game stretch.
Neither of the struggling groups did a lot on offense. They mixed for 451 yards.
Las Vegas gained pretty simply regardless of pedestrian numbers from Smith and Ashton Jeanty, who rushed for 75 yards and a landing on a 3.3-yards-per-play common.
Titans rookie quarterback Cam Ward, the highest general decide within the NFL draft, was 26 of 38 for 222 yards. He related with David Martin-Robinson for the second-year tight finish’s first profession TD.
The Raiders set the tone within the first half, after they shut out the Titans. It was the primary time Las Vegas has blanked an opponent in a half because the second half in opposition to New Orleans final Dec. 29.
The groups mixed for two.39 yards per play within the first half, the bottom since Baltimore and Jacksonville mixed to common 1.80 on Oct. 24, 2011.
It did not assist the Titans that they misplaced huge receiver Calvin Ridley within the second quarter to a hamstring damage. He was coming off a five-catch, 131-yard efficiency every week in the past at Arizona.
The day belonged to protection, at the least on the Raiders’ facet.
White resembled the participant who was a high defender for Tampa Bay earlier this decade, ending with 9 tackles, a sack, an interception and a compelled fumble.
The Raiders pressured Ward persistently and sacked him 5 occasions, together with two by Maxx Crosby. He has a nine-game streak with at the least one deal with for loss, the longest for a Raiders participant since 2008. Jonah Laulu recorded his fourth sack in six video games, the primary Raiders defensive deal with to perform that since Invoice Pickel in 1986.
Titans defensive deal with Jeffery Simmons picked up one other sack, extending his streak to a few video games.
Las Vegas coach Pete Carroll gained his 171st sport, shifting him right into a tie for seventeenth with Invoice Parcells.
