Two-time Super Bowl champion L’Jarius Sneed’s tenure with the Tennessee Titans was a disaster from nearly every angle. The cornerback played just 12 games across two injury-plagued seasons and was released in March after the franchise invested a four-year, $76.4 million extension and a third-round pick to acquire him.
No team signed Sneed in free agency, and it wasn’t hard to understand because a pending criminal case in Texas had become the biggest obstacle standing between his next contract.
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The charges originated from a December 2024 incident at a luxury car dealership in Carrollton, Texas. Two plaintiffs alleged that Sneed and his personal assistant, Tekonzae Williams, arrived in a rented Lamborghini Urus and fired at a business owner sitting in a Mercedes G-Wagon. Sneed was initially arrested on aggravated assault charges, but a grand jury reduced the charge to a Class A misdemeanor for failure to report a felony.
Sneed maintained throughout the process that the alleged acts were committed by a third party without his involvement, according to court filings from his attorney.
The criminal case is now resolved, and it was also reported by ESPN’s NFL insider, Adam Schefter.
“Dallas based criminal defense attorney Michael J. Todd announced that all criminal charges against his client, former Chiefs and Titans cornerback L’Jarius Sneed, have been dismissed,” Schefter wrote. “Sneed originally was charged with aggravated assault that was reduced by the grand jury to the misdemeanor offense of failure to report the commission of a felony. The state of Texas dismissed the misdemeanor completely Friday, which Todd said leaves Sneed without conviction or admission of any kind.”
With the criminal case resolved, Sneed is free to sign with any team, and he shared a message on X after Schefter reported the news.
“Been such a toll on me pass [past] two years, the weight is finally off & tell that devil I’m coming back for everything he tried to still [steal],” Sneed wrote on X.
Been such a toll on me pass two years, the weight is finally off 🙏🏾& tell that devil I’m coming back for everything he tried to still https://t.co/lOVOgOWy7i
— Sneed (@jay__sneed) May 5, 2026
Given his age and injury history, a prove-it deal is the most realistic path forward for Sneed. The 29-year-old cornerback was a fourth-round selection in the 2020 NFL Draft for the Chiefs, and Kansas City could look to bring him back this offseason.
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The Chiefs’ cornerback room looks almost entirely different heading into 2026. They traded Trent McDuffie to the Los Angeles Rams, watched Jaylen Watson sign with them as well, and Joshua Williams signed with the Titans.
First-round pick Mansoor Delane is the new cornerstone of the franchise after Kansas City traded up to the sixth overall pick to select the LSU product, and fourth-round pick Jadon Canady will be another reliable option. Kristian Fulton and Kader Kohou round out the group, but the room is young and largely unproven in coordinator Steve Spagnuolo’s system.
Sneed thrived in that system. In his final season with Kansas City in 2023, he recorded 78 tackles, 2 interceptions, and a career-best 14 passes defensed while shutting down elite receivers like Tyreek Hill and Ja’Marr Chase throughout the season with McDuffie. According to PFSN’s CB Impact Metric, Sneed finished the 2024 NFL season with an impact score of 90.9, ranking second in the league.
Whether Sneed lands in Kansas City or elsewhere remains to be seen, but the legal cloud that kept teams away is no longer a factor.
