Titans rookie quarterback Cam Ward has taken 38 sacks for 295 yards in nine games this season. That is 100 more yards than Raiders quarterback Geno Smith has absorbed on 27 sacks.

That puts him on pace for 72 sacks for 557 yards.

The NFL records are the 76 sacks that Texans quarterback David Carr took as a rookie in 2002 and the 489 yards that Eagles quarterback Randall Cunningham lost in 1986.

Ward is averaging a loss of 7.8 yards per sack and is being sacked more than four times per game on average. That has played a big role in the team ranking last in the NFL in third-down conversions (28 percent) and in points scored (14.4 per game).

“The first part is it’s the number of sacks. We’ve taken too many sacks as an offense,” interim coach Mike McCoy said Monday, via Terry McCormick

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