Oct 4th 2008 5:08PM by JJ Cooper (author feed)
Filed under: Titans, AFC SouthVince Young’s recovery from his knee injury apparently has gone pretty well. Just a couple of days after he returned to practice, Young will be the Titans backup quarterback this week when they face the Jaguars. And he better he ready, because Chris Simms, the only other quarterback on the roster, was waived today so that the team could pick up an insurance policy at punter.

Josh Miller was added to the roster because Craig Hentrich has had back spasms. Simms will likely return to the team next week, unless another team snaps him up because of their own quarterback issues. Because the Titans waited until Saturday to cut him, that’s pretty unlikely.

Now that Young has the No. 2 QB job, it’s hard to imagine that Simms will be anything better than third string the rest of the year. While Young has handled the demotion pretty well, it’s hard to see how the Titans could drop him to third-string unless they pretty much announced that he would be cut in the offseason.

But while Young’s now the backup, with starter Kerry Collins leading the Titans to a 4-0 start and Young’s bad deicsion to threaten to quit on his team, it’s hard to see him returning to starting this year unless Collins gets hurt.