BALTIMORE (AP) — The last two times the Tennessee Titans played at Baltimore were in 2020. Derrick Henry was on their side then, and boy was he decisive.
He rushed for 195 yards as the Titans beat the Ravens in a playoff game that January. Then Tennessee returned in November and topped Baltimore in overtime on a 29-yard touchdown run by Henry.
So much has changed since.
When the Ravens host Tennessee on Sunday, Henry will be on the opposite sideline, having left the Titans via free agency in 2024. Tennessee is 6-31 since his departure. Henry's tenure with the Titans almost feels like a different football lifetime. Tennessee even unveiled new logos earlier this year.
“They got a whole different thing going now,” Henry said. “Going to be a crazy moment to be playing against the team that I came in the league playing for. But I’m not trying to make too much of it.”
The Ravens (2-1) are back from Brazil after a pulsating win over Dallas in Rio de Janeiro. The Titans (0-3) have shown few signs of progress this season, aside from a competitive loss to Philadelphia. Baltimore has lost four straight home games dating to last season. If the Ravens can't snap that skid now, then when?
On the other hand, this has been an unusual series. The last time the teams met was in London in 2023, and Baltimore won. In the 26 other games between the Titans and Ravens, the road team has won 15 times. That includes all five playoff meetings.
“We can’t dwell on the past too much. Like I said, it is a week-to-week league, and screw whatever happened in the past,” Baltimore safety Kyle Hamilton said. “We are trying to win football games here and now, and I think we want to have the stadium rocking. We want to have fans that support us, have confidence in us, believe in us, give them a reason to come out, be loud, have something to cheer for at the game and leave that stadium happy. A lot of the past few games, nobody has left that stadium happy unless you were from the other team. So, it is up to us to fix that and get back to winning ways at home.”
Tennessee put starting guard Fernando Carmona Jr. on injured reserve this week with a foot injury. That doesn't make quarterback Cam Ward's job any easier. Baltimore has problems of its own on the offensive line after losing its top three options at center already. It'll be up to Lamar Jackson to keep the offense functional — and up to the Titans to try to contain him.
“It’s four guys for six gaps and an elite runner. So he’s elite in that regard and finding open lanes and finding ways to scramble and create off schedule,” Tennessee coach Robert Saleh said. “But it’s always a challenge going against him. We feel good about the speed we have on our D-line and hopefully our rush and coverage match and we got a chance to run them down.”
Tennessee (0-3) at Baltimore (2-1).
When/where to watch: Sunday, 1 p.m. EDT, CBS.
Latest odds: Ravens by 11 1/2.
Against the spread: Titans 1-2; Ravens 1-2.
Last week: Titans lost at New York Giants 12-7; Ravens beat Dallas 34-31 in Rio de Janeiro.
Last meeting: Ravens won 24-16 on Oct. 15, 2023, in London.
Series record: Ravens lead 14-13.
Baltimore's offensive line against the Tennessee defensive front. If the Titans are going to pull off an upset, it will likely be via a low-scoring game in which the Ravens can't overcome their OL injuries enough to keep the ball moving.
— Tennessee has eight first downs in the first half so far this season. Every other team has at least 18.
— Rookie LB Anthony Hill of the Titans leads the NFL with 34 tackles.
— Baltimore's Zay Flowers leads the NFL with 23.4 yards per catch this season. All 10 of his receptions have earned a first down.
— Jackson enters the game with the best career passer rating in NFL history (102.4) and leads the league this season with 9.8 yards per attempt.
— Baltimore's Calais Campbell can tie Jim Marshall (282) for the second-most games played by a defensive lineman in NFL history.
AP Pro Football Writer Teresa M. Walker contributed to this report.
See AP’s full NFL coverage here
Tennessee Titans quarterback Cam Ward (1) looks onto the field during the first half of an NFL football game against the New York Giants in East Rutherford, N.J., Sunday, Sept. 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
Baltimore Ravens running back Derrick Henry (22) celebrates with wide receiver LaJohntay Wester (10) after a touchdown during the first half of an NFL football game against the Dallas Cowboys in Rio de Janeiro, Sunday, Sept. 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson (8) hands off to running back Derrick Henry (22) during the first half of an NFL football game in Rio de Janeiro, Sunday, Sept. 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance both hit the campaign trail on Thursday, but headed to heavily Republican areas to shore up lagging enthusiasm in their party ahead of next month’s midterm elections.
Trump’s travel to Texas and Oklahoma kicked off what the president said will be a 32-day campaign blitz leading up to Nov. 3.
“I think we’re going to win. Every place I’ve gone, we win,” Trump said during a speech at a truck facility in Denton, northwest of Dallas. He said some have suggested his “heart isn't in it. My heart is in it,” and if not, he'd be “home right now.”
“My heart is in it like never before,” Trump said of the runup to the midterms.
Vance, meanwhile, stumped in Florida, putting the Republican Party’s highest-ranking officials in areas where GOP candidates once expected to have glide paths to victory but are now facing tougher races. The vice president tried to cast the GOP as representing common sense in the face of a Democratic push to the left.
“I have the easiest job in the world,” the vice president said in Lakeland, Florida. “I get to talk about how crazy the Democrats are.”
Trump and Vance could have their work cut out for them, though.
A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that only 17% of U.S. adults approve of Trump's handling of the cost of living. Just 26% approve of his handling of the economy overall, marking a new low.
Republicans have expressed growing pessimism about their chances in the election, which will determine control of Congress, as the president has repeatedly dismissed concerns about high costs and gas prices as his unpopular war in Iran drags on.
According to Trump, his party’s headwinds are merely a matter of poor public relations about a job he says is well done.
“Maybe we’re doing a bad job selling it,” Trump said in Texas.
Still, the president spent far more time scoffing at his predecessor, President Joe Biden, reliving his 2024 presidential campaign and defending the war in Iran than he did talking about how he'll help lower the cost of living.
Instead, Trump scoffed at questions about affordability while insisting that they'd been caused by Biden, who left office more than two years ago, while also insisting that prices were actually currently coming down.
“I think inflation is very real, but they’re the ones that caused the inflation,” he said. “I’m the one that’s bringing it down, and we have to be able to get that word out somehow because they’re using the word affordability.”
The Democratic National Committee said Trump and Vance are "desperately trying to rally their base as the midterm elections approach and Republicans face defeat.”
“Donald Trump and JD Vance started a deadly and costly war with Iran that sent the economy spiraling and pushed prices even higher, and now — in the final stretch to the midterms — they’re desperately pleading with voters to 'give (them) another chance,'” said DNC deputy communications director Kendall Witmer.
In Oklahoma, Trump is campaigning with Republican Mike Mazzei, who is running against Democratic state House Minority Leader Cyndi Munson for governor.
The event is being held on the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, putting Trump in the company of just a handful of U.S. presidents who have visited tribal nations while in office.
Before his evening Oklahoma stop, Trump toured the truck facility and chatted with workers in Texas, where Republicans are spending heavily to try to bolster state Attorney General Ken Paxton in a Senate race. Paxton faces a very competitive challenge from Democratic state Rep. James Talarico.
Paxton attended the event and Trump joked that he “could be a pain in the ass sometimes, I’ll be honest” but also noted, “We need Ken so badly and that’s why I’m here.”
Trump didn't summon Paxton to the stage. He also shouted out, but didn't invite to speak, an unlikely traveler accompanying him, former NBA star Dennis Rodman. Trump praised Rodman as his longtime friend and said Rodman had become close with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
Trump will be campaigning in more politically competitive areas in the weeks ahead as he embarks on his travel blitz. But Republican officials will not send him to places where they think his presence could drag down their candidates, according to a person familiar with the party’s strategy who was not authorized to speak publicly and spoke on the condition of anonymity.
Trump’s Oklahoma visit, and likewise one on Friday to Alabama, are aimed at hitting two targets with one stop, the person said.
Republican officials have noted that Trump's visit brought him close to the Dallas-Fort Worth media market, meaning the president's message reached Texas voters who could back Paxton.
His Friday stop in Mobile, Alabama, is aimed not only at boosting Sen. Tommy Tuberville as he runs for Alabama governor but also at shoring up support in Florida’s adjacent panhandle for Republican Rep. Byron Donalds. Donalds is running for Florida governor against David Jolly, the Republican-turned-independent who is now running as a Democrat.
Donalds' campaign in heavily GOP Florida comes as Republicans there have faced some turbulence and voter concerns about affordability and artificial intelligence data centers have become central issues.
With Trump in Oklahoma and Texas, Vance campaigned for Donalds in central Florida. That came a day after the vice president campaigned in Texas, rallying with Republican candidate Eric Flores, who is in a tight U.S. House race in south Texas.
“I know that there are people out there who are frustrated by the pace of progress,” Vance said in Harlingen, Texas. But "we have spent every single day fighting for you, digging ourselves out of the hole that Joe Biden left us in.”
Trump will also campaign on Saturday in Vandalia, Ohio, and on Monday in Grand Island, Nebraska.
In a meeting on Capitol Hill this week, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles described privately to GOP senators that Trump will have a near-daily sprint of campaigning ahead of the Nov. 3 midterms.
Wiles showed Republicans the president’s upcoming travel schedule, which attendees described as extensive and almost every day, all across the country.
West Virginia Republican Sen. Shelley Moore Capito said that White House officials are “acknowledging the headwinds” but that “they have a strategy, and we have a strategy,” including money that the president’s operation will continue to deploy.
Capito also defended the White House’s plan to send Trump to traditionally conservative territory, arguing that he can motivate the Republican base not just where he travels but elsewhere in the country because he has such a broad reach.
“He can get more of his voters out — that are going to be our voters — than anybody else,” Capito said.
Associated Press reporters Jamie Stengle in Denton, Texas; Seung Min Kim in Washington; Jesse Bedayn in Austin, Texas, and Thomas Beaumont in Des Moines, Iowa, contributed to this report.
Florida Republican gubernatorial candidate Rep. Byron Donalds speaks during a campaign rally with Vice President JD Vance in Lakeland, Fla., Thursday, Oct. 1, 2026. (Kevin Lamarque/Pool via AP)
U,S, Vice President JD Vance arrives at a campaign rally to support the GOP gubernatorial candidate Rep. Byron Donalds in Lakeland, Fla., Thursday, Oct. 1, 2026. (Kevin Lamarque/Pool via AP)
People listen as.President Donald Trump speaks at Peterbilt Motors, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2026, in Denton, Texas. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, applauds Republican U.S. Senate candidate Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton as President Donald Trump speaks at Peterbilt Motors, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2026, in Denton, Texas. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
President Donald Trump speaks at the Peterbilt Motors Company, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2026, in Denton, Texas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez
Vice President JD Vance arrives for a rally in Harlingen Texas, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
President Donald Trump speaks during an East Room event at the White House celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
