NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Tennessee Titans may have former linebacker Tim Shaw, who used to be recognized with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in 2014, grant as an honorary workforce captain ahead of they kick off Sunday’s season opener in Unused Orleans.

Former Saints protection Steve Gleason will grant as their honorary captain. Gleason used to be recognized with ALS upcoming 8 seasons with the Saints.

Titans schoolmaster Mike Vrabel and Saints schoolmaster Dennis Allen each indubitably to have Shaw and Gleason grant as honorary captains Sunday. This would be the first moment Shaw travels with the workforce.

Shaw performed 48 video games for the Titans from 2010 to 2012. He served as Tennessee’s particular groups captain in 2011 and 2012. Shaw had 25 particular groups tackles in 3 seasons with the Titans.

He used to be named a “Titan for Life” in 2016. In spite of being wheelchair-bound, Shaw incessantly attends Titans practices and has a bank on the workforce’s facility.

Gleason used to be answerable for probably the most dramatic and noteworthy moments in Saints historical past on Sept. 6, 2005, when he forbidden a punt by way of Atlanta Falcons punter Michael Koenen early within the first quarter of a recreation on the Superdome. Curtis Deloatch recovered the ball within the Falcons’ finish zone for a landing. It used to be the primary rating within the Saints’ first recreation in Unused Orleans in just about 21 months upcoming Storm Katrina had devastated the town and the workforce.

Shaw will constitute the Titans on the coin toss along side 2023 workforce captains in quarterback Ryan Tannehill, working again Derrick Henry, heart Aaron Brewer, protection Kevin Byard, defensive lineman Jeffery Simmons, linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair, and lengthy snapper Morgan Cox.

The Saints’ captains — quarterback Derek Carr, linebacker Demario Davis, defensive finish Cameron Jordan, defensive again J.T. Grey, protection Tyrann Mathieu, heart Erik McCoy and lengthy snapper Zach Log — will rise along Gleason for the coin toss.