Cam Ward and Titans visit Shedeur Sanders and Browns in a matchup of rookie QBs

Tennessee (1-11) at Cleveland (3-9)

Sunday, 1 p.m. EST, Fox.

BetMGM NFL Odds: Browns by 3 1/2.

Against the spread: Titans 5-7; Browns 5-7.

Series record: Browns lead 37-32.

Last meeting: Browns beat Titans 27-3 on Sept. 24, 2023, in Cleveland.

Last week: Titans lost to Jaguars 25-3; Browns lost to 49ers 26-8.

Titans offense: overall (32), rush (31), pass (30), scoring (32).

Titans defense: overall (24), rush (22), pass (T-19), scoring (29).

Browns offense: overall (31), rush (27), pass (31), scoring (29).

Browns defense: overall (2), rush (10), pass (3), scoring (14).

Turnover differential: Titans minus-6; Browns even.

QB Cam Ward. The No. 1 overall pick has strung together four straight games without being intercepted. He has fumbled four times. Ward has thrown for 2,351 yards with seven touchdowns and six interceptions.

QB Shedeur Sanders will make his third NFL start. The fifth-round pick has shown steady improvement since being forced into action during the second half of the Nov. 16 game against Baltimore. He is the first Browns rookie quarterback with a passer rating of at least 85 in each of his first two starts.

Myles Garrett against the Titans offensive line. The Browns pass rusher leads the NFL with 19 sacks and 28 tackles for loss. Garett could set the league record with rookie Cam Ward the most-sacked quarterback in the league. Ward has been sacked fewer than three times in a game only twice all season. Garrett had 3 1/2 sacks the most recent time these teams met.

Titans: Center Lloyd Cushenberry will miss a second straight game with an injured foot, and CB Jalyn Armour-Davis will miss a second straight game with an Achilles' tendon issue. S Kendall Brooks is questionable as he works through the concussion protocol after missing three straight games. T Shy Tuttle, who missed last week with a concussion, is also questionable.

Browns: Guard Wyatt Teller (calf), OT Jack Conklin (concussion) and DT Adin Huntington (quadricep) are out. RB Dylan Sampson (calf), DE Isaiah McGuire (knee), DT Michael Hall (knee) and DT Mason Graham (ribs) are questionable.

The Browns lead the series between these old AFC Central franchises and even have a 20-14 record when visiting the Titans. But Tennessee is 18-17 when visiting Cleveland and 6-3 at Huntington Bank Field. The Browns have won two straight with coach Kevin Stefanski. Browns defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz once held that role in his first of two coaching stints with Tennessee.

The Titans have lost seven straight overall and are 1-4 on the road. This is the Titans' first road trip since Oct. 26. ... Ward can match Vince Young’s franchise record for most starts in a season by a rookie quarterback Sunday. Young started 13 games in 2006. ... The Titans had three sacks last week, their fifth time in the past six games with at least three sacks. The Titans have 21 sacks since Week 7, tied for the fourth most in the NFL in that span. ... Three-time Pro Bowl DT Jeffery Simmons leads the Titans with 6 1/2 sacks. ... Rookie Chimere Dike leads the NFL averaging 21.2 yards on punt returns, the highest punt return average in a season in the Super Bowl era among qualifying players. Dike also leads the NFL with 1,921 all-purpose yards, including a league-high 1,282 yards on kickoff returns. ... The Browns have a league-high 109 catches by their rookies this season. The Titans rank second with 97 by their rookies. ... Browns QB Shedeur Sanders completed 64% of his passes for 149 yards and a TD pass last week. ... Browns rookie RB Quinshon Judkins had a team-high 109 yards from scrimmage last week. He leads rookies with 758 yards rushing and is tied for most rushing TDs with seven. ... TE Harold Fannin Jr. ranks fourth among rookies with 51 catches and fifth with 505 yards receiving. ... Garrett passed Mark Gastineau's 18 1/2 sacks for the second-most sacks in the first 12 games of a season since 1982 and passed J.J. Watt's 27 tackles for loss for the most TFLs in the first 12 games of a season since 2000. Garrett has a sack in six straight games, the longest active streak. ... LB Carson Schwesinger leads rookies with 99 tackles and 10 tackles for loss.

Browns rookie TE Harold Fannin has at least 40 receiving yards in four of the past five games, including two touchdowns.

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Cleveland Browns head coach Kevin Stefanski walks along the sideline during the second half of an NFL football game against the San Francisco 49ers, Sunday, Nov. 30, 2025, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence, center, pushes his way past the Tennessee Titans defense for a 2-point conversion during the first half of an NFL football game Sunday, Nov. 30, 2025, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

Cleveland Browns defensive end Myles Garrett (95) celebrates after sacking San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy with defensive end Cameron Thomas (99) during the second half of an NFL football game, Sunday, Nov. 30, 2025, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

Cleveland Browns quarterback Shedeur Sanders (12) is helped off the field by tight end David Njoku (85) and trainers during the second half of an NFL football game against the San Francisco 49ers, Sunday, Nov. 30, 2025, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

Tennessee Titans quarterback Cam Ward (1) is sacked by Jacksonville Jaguars safety Andrew Wingard during the second half of an NFL football game Sunday, Nov. 30, 2025, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/John Amis)

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — René Redzepi, the founder and celebrity chef at the iconic Danish restaurant Noma that won three Michelin stars and other international accolades for its innovative “New Nordic” cuisine, has stepped down following allegations of abuse and assault at the Copenhagen landmark.

Redzepi has been dogged for years by reports of mistreatment of his staff as well as his yearslong use of unpaid interns to staff the pricy restaurant, which was ranked first on the World’s 50 Best Restaurants List five times. But the criticism recently came to a head on social media, and an article in The New York Times detailed former employees' accounts of abuse just days ahead of the opening of a Noma pop-up in Los Angeles.

Sponsors have since pulled their funding for the Southern California residency, which opened on Wednesday to a small gathering of protesters and where a meal will cost $1,500. Redzepi announced his resignation on Instagram with a tearful video soon after.

“I have worked to be a better leader and Noma has taken big steps to transform the culture over many years,” he wrote in the post's caption on Thursday. “I recognize these changes do not repair the past. An apology is not enough; I take responsibility for my own actions.”

Jason Ignacio White, a former head of Noma’s fermentation lab, collected anonymous testimonies of alleged abuse at the restaurant and posted them to his Instagram page. The accounts, which range from verbal abuse to physical assault at the hands of Redzepi and his deputies, have gone viral.

“I got punched in the face during service there,” one unidentified person wrote to White.

Another said: “Noma destroyed my passion for the industry. I struggled with intense anxiety, bad enough to give me panic attacks in the middle of the night. The trauma, abuse and idea that nothing would ever change all led me to walk away from the career.”

Redzepi has publicly addressed his aggression over the last decade. In response to Saturday's New York Times article, which included interviews with 35 former employees who worked at Noma between 2009 and 2017, the chef apologized on Instagram and said he has worked to change his behavior.

He was knighted in 2016 to Denmark's Order of Dannebrog by then-Queen Margrethe II.

Noma, Redzepi and the Danish royal family's press department did not immediately return requests for comment on Thursday.

Kristoffer Dahy Ernst, editor-in-chief of Danish food magazine Gastro, said Redzepi had to step down for the restaurant to have a chance of survival.

“René Redzepi is the face of Noma, he is Noma,” Dahy Ernst told The Associated Press. “If you want to solve the huge problem that Noma has right now, you have to remove the source of the problem.”

Dahy Ernst said it is unclear whether Noma can continue without its visionary founder, who brought international acclaim to a Scandinavian country that can trace a change in its gastro-tourism before and after the restaurant's 2003 opening. With its dedication to hospitality, flawless execution and culture of foraging from the nearby land and sea, Noma made Copenhagen a top dining destination for foodies worldwide.

“We were very old-fashioned. We had open-faced sandwiches with rye bread, but we weren’t really that proud of our gastronomy,” Dahy Ernst said.

Nick Curtin, the American executive chef and owner of Copenhagen's Michelin-starred Alouette restaurant, said the culinary industry gives too much power to a single person at the top.

“It’s long overdue that we get rid of the notion that sacrifice, humiliation, pain (and) violence are the ways — the building blocks — for greatness,” he told the AP.

Copenhagen local Nicklas Keng said he doesn’t expect that an industrywide reckoning will follow. But he’s hopeful that even if Noma’s excellence fades, its talented alumni in Denmark will ensure that Copenhagen’s food scene stays on the map.

For Annie Nguyen, an American tourist visiting Copenhagen, Noma had long been on her list of places to check out. But the recent headlines have prompted a change of heart.

“I personally would not want to continue dining there with that kind of culture,” she said. “I feel it does kind of leave a bad taste.”

Dazio reported from Berlin.

A staff member polishes the glass doors outside a Noma restaurant in Copenhagen, Tuesday, May 1, 2012. (Keld Navntoft/Ritzau Scanpix via AP)

Noma's chef René Redzepi smells a citrus fruit in Copenhagen, Nov. 24, 2024. (Soeren Bidstrup/Ritzau Scanpix via AP)

Noma's chef René Redzepi prepares a vegetarian burger in a restaurant, in Copenhagen, Nov. 24, 2024. (Soeren Bidstrup/Ritzau Scanpix via AP)