Titans Take Away Jared Stillman's Credential Without Explaining Why

Jared Stillman's methods have long made him a controversial presence, but the Tennessee Titans' decision to revoke his credential raises a larger question about the standards for media access.

By PAUL KUHARSKY

The Titans have pulled the media credential for controversial social media broadcast host Jared Stillman.

While Stillman is a more frequent presence during OTAs and training camp, he otherwise tends to pop in for periodic, often performative, appearances at press conferences rather than covering the team regularly.

Stillman said the team told him that because he is a YouTuber who is no longer affiliated with a radio station, it does not consider him a media member whose coverage warrants access inside the facility.

Stillman said he pointed out that he had just spent three hours on SiriusXM. He said the Titans responded that he did not need access to the team facility to do that work.

He said he will comment further on the Titans' move on his show, Stillman and Company, which airs on YouTube, X and Facebook at 2 pm. CT. He also appears on podcast platforms.

The Titans declined to comment.

Is the Standard Consistent?

A credential isn't an unconditional right. Teams can establish legitimate standards for who qualifies for access. So the question isn't whether the Titans can revoke one. It's whether the standard they applied to Stillman is legitimate and consistently applied.

Most credentialed media are with the team regularly. Stillman typically arrives for selected press conferences and is gone quickly afterward.

I asked Cam Ward how he would assess his preseason, his answer was to ask me how I would assess it..to which I said "not well."

He then gave his assessment in which he said they made a huge jump from Week 1 to Week 2. Says it will "be a different story" Week 1 vs the Jets. pic.twitter.com/fqPwgnNrfr

— Jared Stillman (@JaredStillman) August 27, 2026

He's also asked Ward about differentiating his comment last season that they were "ass" and his assessment on Netflix's "Quarterback" that he was all right, and questioned Robert Saleh about critical comments from Jets superfan Fireman Ed.

Stillman habitually advances conspiracy theories without factual support. He speculated that Saleh changed his mind about playing starters in the preseason finale because he didn't want Ward playing poorly again to be a storyline for two weeks. When Jon Robinson got fired, he speculated that it was at least in part because something happened on the plane ride home from a game in Green Bay before Todd Downing got a DUI.

The Larger Media Access Question

Whatever anyone thinks of Stillman's methods, a team revoking media access from a prominent critic with a steady audience raises a different and more consequential issue.

Without a credential, his commentary will less frequently include responses from the people he's talking about. Instead, he'll have to rely more heavily on credentialed colleagues who ask those questions and aren't necessarily eager to supply his content.

The team continues to credential others whose audiences and outlets are considerably smaller, and whose questions are typically more innocuous. Audience size alone clearly isn't the standard.

The question is whether the Titans apply that definition of who qualifies as media consistently.

No one else really fits his category.

Stillman's style and methods make him an easy test case. That's also what makes this worth watching. A credentialing standard matters most when it's applied to someone whose coverage or conduct a team doesn't like.

The Titans can decide that Stillman's current work doesn't warrant access to their facility. But defining who qualifies as media in 2026 by affiliation with a traditional outlet raises questions of its own, particularly if others with smaller audiences and nontraditional platforms continue to receive credentials. (I'm untraditional myself, but a lot different.)

Indications are that no other credentialing changes are coming.