Booking the production reflected a

That’s just fine for Ward.is expected to be that starter once the season begins if only because of where he was selected combined with Tennessee going 3-14 with

who was 2-10 as a starter in 2024.“I’m on Coach Callahan timeline, so that’s really not my decision,” Ward said. “But I know I still got a lot to work on, a lot of processing to do to play in the NFL. I think I’m getting up there at a rapid pace. And so, I’m excited. Well, I just think the biggest thing for me is it’s, you know, just taking it day by day.”The rotation was real Wednesday with

, who played for the Titans coach in Cincinnati, taking the first snap in one drill. When Ward isn’t in drills, he said he’s focused on formations, play calls and motions to keep learning the offense.The rookie made a couple of nice deep throws to Chimere Dike and Elic Ayomanor. Ward showed he’s still a rookie with the ball hitting the ground on a snap. Veteran center

is recovering from an Achilles tendon injury that ended his first season in Tennessee after eight games.

Ward also credited Levis with being among the first players to come up to him in the locker room ready to compete and work. Ward said it’s been exciting to work with someone who’s played actual NFL games.In January, state media

that intelligence officials inthwarted a plan by the Islamic State group to set off a bomb at the shrine. The announcement appeared to be an attempt by Syria’s new leaders to reassure religious minorities, including those seen as having supported Assad’s former government.

Al-Khatib, who moved his family from Aleppo province to the Sayyida Zeinab area shortly before Assad’s fall, said Assad had branded himself as a protector of minorities. “When killings, mobilization ... and sectarian polarization began,” the narrative “of the regime and its allies was that ‘you, as a Shiite, you as a minority member, will be killed if I fall.’”The involvement of Sunni jihadis and some hardline foreign Shiite fighters fanned sectarian flames, he said.