Jeffery Simmons holds the LDT · Starter spot in Tennessee Titans’s defensive tackle room. Where he sits among the room’s front-line roles:

Jeffery Simmons played 15 games in 2025 with a 81% snap share.

Jeffery Simmons is a defensive tackle for the Tennessee Titans, selected 19th overall in the 2019 NFL Draft. The 6-foot-4-inch, 300-pound lineman attended Mississippi State, where he appeared in 38 contests with 28 starts. Through seven seasons with Tennessee, Simmons has been named team captain for four consecutive years and earned Pro Bowl selections in 2021, 2022, and 2024, along with second-team All-Pro honors in 2021 and 2022. In 2024, he recorded 76 tackles, 11 sacks, and three passes defensed across 16 games. Simmons signed a three-year extension during the 2023 offseason and was named the Titans' Walter Payton Man of the Year nominee for the second consecutive year in 2024.

Mississippi State2016 – 2018

Titans2019 — present

CollegeMississippi StateDraftRound 1 · No. 19 overall · 2019 · TENHometownMacon, MS