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NFL Week 10 uniforms: the Titans debut their “Music City” Rivalries look, the Ravens unveil the matte black Darkness helmet on Monday night, and the 49ers wear 1994 red in Dallas

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The Titans wear their "Music City" Rivalries uniform for the only time this season against the Jaguars, the Ravens debut their matte black Darkness helmet against the Chargers on Monday night, and the Bengals, Jets, Saints, Browns and 49ers all go to alternates in Week 10.

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Two Titans players in the navy "Music City" Rivalries uniform with Titans blue helmets
The Titans' "Music City" Rivalries uniform. Image: NFL on X

Week 10 is one of the busiest uniform weeks of the season. The Titans wear their new “Music City” Rivalries uniform for the first and only time this year on Sunday against the Jaguars, and the Ravens put their matte black “Darkness” helmet on the field for the first time in a regular-season game on Monday night against the Chargers.

They are not alone. The Bengals bring back the White Bengal helmet for Sunday night against the Steelers, the Jets, Saints and Browns all go one color from head to toe, and the 49ers pull out their red 1994 throwbacks for their trip to Dallas.

Titans: Music City, once this season

The Rivalries program, a league partnership with Nike, gives teams a uniform built around their city and has them debut it at home against a division rival. This year’s eight new designs belong to the AFC South and the NFC North. The Titans, who are 1-7 and coming off their bye, wear theirs against the 6-2 Jaguars at Nissan Stadium on Sunday at 1 p.m. ET.

The set uses a Titans blue helmet with a navy jersey and navy pants. “Music City” runs across the chest in script, the numbers are drawn to look like Nashville’s neon signs, and a six-stripe pattern down the pants is meant to look like the strings of a guitar. Tennessee will wear it only once in 2026, but the uniform stays in the team’s rotation for three seasons. It is also the first of two Titans-Jaguars games in three weeks, with the rematch in Jacksonville on Nov. 29.

The Titans are the fifth of the eight 2026 Rivalries teams to debut. The Colts, Packers, Lions and Jaguars have already worn theirs. The Texans are next, at home against the Colts in Week 11, followed by the Vikings against the Lions in Week 15 and the Bears against the Packers in Week 16. The eight teams that debuted Rivalries uniforms in 2025 also get one game in them this season, and the Bills wear theirs against the Dolphins next week.

Ravens: the Darkness helmet arrives on Monday night

Baltimore revealed a redesigned uniform collection in April, with two new alternate helmets, the biggest change to its look since the franchise arrived in 1996. Monday’s game against the Chargers is the third and last of the team’s uniform theme nights, called Darkness Falls: a black jersey, black pants and a new matte black helmet with two-tone talon stripes and a front-facing raven with glowing red eyes, a nod to the red eyes above the players’ tunnel at M&T Bank Stadium.

The collar carries “darkness there and nothing more,” a line from Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven,” the poem that gave the team its name. Poe is buried in Baltimore. The Chargers, who are 0-8, are scheduled to wear white jerseys over powder blue pants, and the game is Jesse Minter’s first against his former team. Ja Rule is booked for the pregame and halftime shows.

The black jersey returns in Week 14 against the Buccaneers and in Week 18 against the Steelers, but the Ravens have not said which helmet goes with it on those days. Their previous theme night did not go well: the Ravens wore the all-purple Purple Rising set on Thursday night in Week 9 and lost 33-10 to the Jaguars.

Every Week 10 alternate look

TeamOpponentUniformWhen
TitansJaguars“Music City” Rivalries debut: Titans blue helmet, navy jersey and pantsSunday, 1 p.m. ET
49ersat CowboysRed 1994 throwbacks with gold helmetsSunday, 4:25 p.m. ET
BengalsSteelersWhite Bengal helmet, all whiteSunday night, 8:20 p.m. ET
JetsBillsLegacy Black, all blackSunday
SaintsPanthersAll blackSunday
BrownsTexansAlpha Dawg, all brownSunday
RavensChargersDarkness Falls: matte black helmet, all blackMonday Night Football, 8:15 p.m. ET

The Bengals have used the White Bengal helmet since 2022 and are 5-1 in it. They face Pittsburgh on Sunday night a week after beating the Falcons in Madrid.

The 49ers’ red throwbacks are the set they wore during the 1994 season, the last time they won the Super Bowl, and Sunday’s game at AT&T Stadium renews one of the league’s oldest rivalries. San Francisco is 7-1 and Dallas is 4-5; our step-by-step look at the matchup covers the 41 games between them.

The week’s first alternate is already in the books. The Giants wore their vintage white uniforms for the last time this season on Thursday night, when the Commanders won 24-21 at MetLife Stadium. The week also includes Patriots-Lions in Munich on Sunday morning in the United States.

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