Ex-Titans Scout Sentenced to Consecutive Life Terms for Poisoning Pregnant Girlfriend

In Nashville, a man who once made his living judging the potential of others was himself judged — and found irredeemably wanting. Blaise Taylor, a former Tennessee Titans scout, was sentenced to consecutive life terms for poisoning his pregnant girlfriend Jade Benning with cocaine in February 2023, killing her and their unborn daughter. The crime was intimate and calculated, the lie he told to 911 transparent, and the jury's deliberation brief — less than two hours to weigh the end of two lives. What remains is a sentence designed to outlast the man who earned it, and a silence where a young w