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Former Chargers Tight End Signing With Tennessee Titans
Veteran former Los Angeles Chargers tight end Nick Vannett has officially moved on, and is signing with the Tennessee Titans, the team has announced via its X account.
The 6-foot-6, 257-pound journeyman, 31, was inked to a practice squad deal with Los Angeles last summer. He was added to the club’s active roster in November.
Vannett played sparingly for the Bolts last season, appearing in eight contests. He caught just one reception on one target, for three yards.
Prior to the Chargers and Titans, the Ohio State product played for the Seattle Seahawks, Pittsburgh Steelers, Denver Broncos, New Orleans Saints, and New York Giants. He also signed on to the Houston Texans’ practice squad, briefly, in 2023.
It didn’t make much sense for him to stick around Los Angeles. He would have been fighting for third- or fourth-stringer minutes behind Will Dissly and Hayden Hurst, alongside Donald Parham Jr. and Stone Smartt.
Now, in Tennessee, Vannett hopes to venture off to what he hopes will be greener pastures and significantly more minutes.
L.A. under new head coach Jim Harbaugh and new general manager Joe Hortiz is hoping for a far more successful season of its own than it got with Vannett in 2023.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) – We’re experiencing our hottest weather since summer 2025.
The hottest weather of the year is having a major impact on Middle Tennesseans. Temperatures have soared well above average during the afternoon and remained unusually high at night for several days. That’s caused thousands across Middle Tennessee and southern Kentucky to temporarily change the way they go about everyday life. The heat has been so significant that temperatures have actually been in record territory.
For example, this past Sunday, Nashville nearly tied the highest minimum temperature ever for the date — 80° set in 1936. Nashville’s low on Sunday was 79.
As for high temperatures, while it was easily the hottest day of the year on Tuesday, Nashville missed that day’s record by nine degrees.
We’ll be closer on Wednesday, missing it by just six degrees.
There’s an even closer approach in line for Thursday. Our forecast for Nashville is 98°. The record high temperature is 101.
Cooler weather will eventually take over. By early next week, we expect highs to return to more seasonable levels — the low 90s.
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Former Tennessee baseball pitcher Garrett Stallings was called up by the Milwaukee Brewers on June 30.
Stallings, 28, likely will make his major league debut against the Cincinnati Reds on June 30 in the second game of the Brewers’ four-game homestand.
Stallings played at Tennessee from 2017 to 2019 in the early years of Tony Vitello’s stint at the Vols’ head coach. He earned a starting role as a freshman and became the ace by his junior season.
In 2019, the Los Angeles Angels selected Stallings in the fifth round of the MLB draft. He bounced around in the minors before landing firmly in Triple-A with the Norfolk Tides, and later the Brewers’ affiliate Nashville Sounds, in 2024.
Stallings posted a 3-3 record with the Sounds in 2026 with a 3.45 ERA and 59 strikeouts in 62⅔ innings.
He will be the 54th player in Tennessee history to reach the major leagues and the 12th since 2020. He will join left-hander Garrett Crochet (2020); right-hander Ben Joyce (2023); infielder Andre Lipcius (2023); IF Trey Lipscomb (2024); outfielder Jordan Beck (2024); RHP Seth Halvorsen (2024); RHP Chase Dollander (2025); RHP Blade Tidwell (2025); INF Christian Moore (2025); OF Drew Gilbert (2025); and RHP Chad Dallas (2026).
Dallas made his debut for the Toronto Blue Jays on June 4.
Wynton Jackson covers high school sports for Knox News. Email: wynton.jackson@knoxnews.com
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