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“This is a reflection of all the people that believed in me along the way,” Hooker said via the team website.

Tennessee is carrying five safeties on its 53-man roster. Hooker and veteran free agent addition Xavier Woods will start. Quandre Diggs will rotate in at times as well. The Titans also have Mike Brown and 2025 third-round pick Kevin Winston Jr.

The Titans open their season Sunday on the road against the Denver Broncos.

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It’s another divisional clash at the beginning of the season, with the Kansas City Chiefs taking on the Los Angeles Chargers in São Paulo. For the Chiefs, the standard and goals are simple: Make it back to the Super Bowl and avenge last season’s loss on the game’s biggest stage. The Chargers are looking to build on a solid first season by head coach Jim Harbaugh, who led the team to an 11-6 record in 2024 before a loss in the wild-card round.

The Chargers will need to overcome recent history to head back stateside 1-0 — per ESPN research, the Chiefs’ 0.864 winning percentage against Los Angeles since 2014 is tied with the Packers (vs. the Bears) and Patriots (vs. the Jets) for the best win percentage by a team against a divisional opponent over that span. Kansas City has also won six consecutive games in the month of September, the longest active streak in the NFL.

Can Kansas City get off on the right foot in its quest for a third Super Bowl ring in four seasons? Or will Los Angeles open the season with a win and make an early statement in the AFC West?

Follow along all night for sights and sounds from São Paulo, as well as live updates and highlights from Chiefs-Chargers in Brazil:

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“We would always love to have Taylor play. She is a special, special talent, and obviously she would be welcome at any time,” Goodell said, when asked if Swift was invited to play the Super Bowl.

“Is it in the works?” “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie asked.

“I can’t tell you anything about it,” Goodell replied.

“Is it a maybe?” Guthrie followed up.

“It’s a maybe,” he hedged.

Despite Goodell’s noncommittal response, Swifties have been speculating for months that the stars (read: numbers) are aligning for the pop superstar — who is newly engaged to Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce — to take center stage in Santa Clara, California.

Levi’s Stadium serves as the home to the San Francisco 49ers, and four plus nine equals Swift’s lucky No. 13.

If that isn’t enough evidence, consider that she now owns the rights to her first six albums, and the “soda wars” (Pepsi became the main sponsor of the halftime show in 2013, the same year Swift signed a deal with Coca-Cola) became a thing of the past when Apple Music took over the official sponsorship role in 2023.

There’s also the business of Swift’s upcoming 12th studio album, “The Life of a Showgirl,” which will be released Oct. 3. That’s after the eligibility deadline for the 68th Grammy Awards, so she may be inclined to put on a show of her own in early February.

On the off chance you’re still not buying it (we appreciate the skepticism), it’s worth pointing out Swift’s love of sourdough bread, a San Francisco-area staple.

It would be a full circle moment for the singer, who performed the national anthem at the Detroit Lions’ Thanksgiving Day game back in 2006 and at the 2010 NFL kickoff concert in New Orleans.

Swift also teased “ME!” at the 2019 NFL draft and debuted the trailer for her album “Midnight” during the third quarter of the New Orleans Saints and Arizona Cardinals’ 2022 showdown.

Dare we say, it’s been a long time coming.