Titans coach calls hit by Bears safety Xavier Woods on Wan'Dale Robinson in joint practice 'cheap'

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Chicago Bears and Tennessee wrapped up training camp Thursday with a joint practice highlighted late by a hit laying out wide receiver Wan'Dale Robinson in a two-minute drill that Titans coach Robert Saleh needed only one word to describe.

“Cheap,” Saleh said.

The coach also said Robinson was being evaluated for a concussion after the hit. Titans quarterback Cam Ward said his pass over the middle has to be better. Chicago defensive back Xavier Woods made the hit that brought players together yelling.

Titans left guard Peter Skoronski said he just watched the play again before talking to reporters after practice. He said it was unacceptable and the kind of thing that's on Tape 101 of what not to do in a period of practice where players are not tackling. Both he and veteran center Austin Schlottmann ran downfield after the hit.

“I get we’re being competitive, I get DBs are physical, stuff like that," Skoronski said. “But that’s totally uncalled for in the practice time like this. I think we’re trying to take those out or else we could do things like cut guys or clean out the pocket or do stuff like that if you allow that and OK, we can do that.”

Robinson was one of the Titans' biggest free agent additions this March when they spent the most money in the NFL adding veterans. He walked inside on his own after the play.

“I thought our guys did a good job composing themselves,” Saleh said. “I thought they did a great job. Great job handling themselves.”

Chicago coach Ben Johnson talked with reporters before the practice, the second for the Bears (1-1) ahead of these teams' preseason finale Saturday. Several of the Bears struggled with apparent cramping in the humid conditions of a midday practice with the temperature feeling like 95 degrees late in the session.

Caleb Williams threw the ball well against the Titans, though he was picked off twice later with safety Tony Adams intercepting a pass near the goal line in the two-minute drill late. The Bears did pull off a trick play with D'Andre Swift throwing the ball back to Williams, who found Colston Loveland for a deep completion.

Asked if the Titans objected to the trick play, Williams said no: “If they did, I didn’t hear them.”

This practice featured the quarterbacks taken No. 1 overall in 2024 in Williams by the Bears and 2025 in Ward by the Titans. Williams was 5-12 as a rookie, while Ward's Titans went 3-14.

Asked what clicked for him going into his second season, Williams immediately mentioned Brian Daboll as Ward's offensive coordinator with a good track record working with different quarterbacks.

“So just believing and trusting in him and what he’s coaching you and teaching you and then I think just being able to go out there and execute," Williams said. “I think we have some similarities in our games and things like that of being able to make the big plays.”

Ward has spoken with Williams in the past. Their fathers also have talked. Ward and the Titans are trying to make a similar jump in his second season and reach the playoffs as Williams did with Chicago.

“It’s good to have another good quarterback out here on the field,” Ward said. "That way our defense can get some good work in.”

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Chicago Bears head coach Ben Johnson looks at the scoreboard during the second half of a preseason NFL football game against the Cincinnati Bengals on Saturday, Aug. 22, 2026, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

Chicago Bears quarterback Caleb Williams (18) arrives for a joint NFL football practice with the Cincinnati Bengals, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2026, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Tennessee Titans quarterback Cam Ward (1) looks to throw a pass during the NFL football team's training camp Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2026, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

Tennessee Titans wide receiver Carnell Tate (14) stretches during the NFL football team's training camp Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2026, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

Tennessee Titans head coach Robert Saleh, right, greets wide receiver Wan'dale Robinson (4) during the NFL football team's training camp Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2026, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti’s National Police faced mounting criticism Thursday over why authorities failed to prevent a recent gang attack in which 47 people were killed and more than 50 kidnapped.

Police spokesperson Garry Desrosiers took only a handful of questions from journalists at a news conference Thursday, just days after gangs attacked Kenscoff, a once-peaceful farming community nestled in the hills near Port-au-Prince.

Asked what police are planning to do about those kidnapped, Desrosiers said he could not answer that question publicly.

“We cannot talk about any plans,” he said.

One gang leader has threatened to execute all the hostages if any gang members are killed as police work to secure Kenscoff.

Desrosiers expressed condolences to all those affected by the violent attack launched late Sunday.

More than 2,600 people were displaced, according to the U.N. International Organization for Migration, and anger and frustration are mounting. Desrosiers said police are working on helping them return home, but he did not provide specifics.

One journalist questioned whether there was any intelligence gathered prior to the attack, with Desrosiers responding that authorities have been working on gathering intelligence.

He added that police are aware that one gang leader is threatening to attack Tabarre, a neighborhood within Port-au-Prince where the U.S. embassy is located.

“I’m not in a position to give you detailed information,” Desrosiers said.

Vladimir Paraison, head of Haiti’s National Police, was not present at the news conference. He recently defended security measures in Kenscoff and said that an investigation was underway to establish the truth about the attack "whether due to complicity or negligence."

Between January and August this year, security operations had managed to reduce violence in Kenscoff by 66% prior to Sunday’s attack, according to the nonprofit Armed Conflict Location & Event Data.

As Haiti reels from the attack, the U.S. on Thursday deported dozens more people to the troubled country.

Among the deportees was a professional boxer, who said he was born in the Bahamas.

“I don’t know anything about Haiti,” said Jay Dabelus. “I wasn’t born here.”

Dabelus said he left the Bahamas when he was about 6 years old and had been living for more than 20 years in the United States before he was detained.

As he spoke, he looked at his surroundings in northern Haiti.

“It is nice here, but I’m trying to move on,” he said. “I don’t have any resources, family members or people to aid me.”

Thursday’s flight arrived in the northern Haitian city of Cap-Haitien because the main international airport in the capital, Port-au-Prince, is deemed too dangerous.

Aboard the flight were more than 50 people including two young children, according to Kerlande Desauguste, an official with Haiti’s National Office of Migration.

“We are deeply concerned about the safety of Haitians in Haiti and those being returned to a country where the government cannot currently guarantee their protection,” said Guerline Jozef, executive director of Haitian Bridge Alliance, a U.S.-based humanitarian group.

Thursday marked the second deportation flight since Temporary Protected Status ended for some 350,000 Haitians in the United States.

The first one arrived on Aug. 20, carrying more than 160 people, including TPS holders.

Like previous deportees, the ones who arrived on Thursday covered their faces for safety.

Gang violence has displaced a record of nearly 1.5 million people across Haiti, where more than 3,050 people were reported killed from January to June, according to U.N. statistics.

Armed men control an estimated 70% of Port-au-Prince and swaths of land in Haiti’s central region and beyond, with poverty and hunger deepening as gang violence persists.

Associated Press reporter Dánica Coto in San Juan, Puerto Rico, contributed.

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Blood stains the ground left behind by the victim of a gang attack in the Kenscoff neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, Aug. 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)