NASHVILLE (Interstat) — Andre Szmyt made a 32-yard field goal as time expired, and the Cleveland Browns escaped Nissan Stadium with a 27-24 victory over the Tennessee Titans on Sunday. Cleveland improved to 5-2, while Tennessee dropped to 1-6 before an announced attendance of 63,710. The visiting Browns won despite a late Titans rally that tied the game in the final minute. Deshaun Watson led Cleveland with 308 passing yards and a rushing touchdown, and Quinshon Judkins scored twice in a back-and-forth game. Tennessee struck first with two touchdown runs by Tony Pollard. Pollard scored from 36 yards with 12:57 left in the first quarter and added a 10-yard scoring run at the 8:35 mark, with Joey Slye making both extra points. Cleveland answered when Judkins scored on a 5-yard run with 5:32 remaining in the opening quarter. A 4-yard Pollard touchdown run in the second quarter was reversed after a replay review, leaving the Titans at the Cleveland 1-yard line. Cleveland later tied the game on Judkins’ 6-yard run with 2:17 left before halftime, and Szmyt gave the Browns a 17-14 lead with a 28-yard field goal as the second quarter expired. Szmyt missed a 43-yard field goal attempt that hit the right upright with 14:09 remaining in the fourth quarter, but Tennessee could not capitalize immediately. Slye tied the game at 17 with a 29-yard field goal at the 8:41 mark. Watson then put Cleveland back in front with a 9-yard touchdown run with 4:34 left, and Szmyt’s extra point made it 24-17. Pollard tied the game again on a 1-yard touchdown run with 58 seconds remaining, and Slye’s extra point evened the score at 24. Cleveland moved into position for Szmyt’s decisive 32-yard field goal as time expired. Watson, a 6-foot-2, 215-pound quarterback from Gainesville, Ga., finished 25 of 36 for 308 yards and ran three times for 19 yards and a touchdown. Tennessee’s Cam Ward, a 6-foot-2, 219-pound quarterback, completed 20 of 31 passes for 181 yards and ran twice for 5 yards. Titans linebacker Oluwafemi Oladejo, listed at 6-foot-3 and 259 pounds, recorded three tackles and one sack. Elic Ayomanor caught three passes for 44 yards and made one tackle, Gunnar Helm had three receptions for 24 yards, Wan’Dale Robinson caught four passes for 7 yards, and Daniel Bellinger had one reception for 4 yards. Tony Adams did not record a statistic. Kevin Winston Jr. led Tennessee with 14 tackles, Anthony Hill Jr. added 13, Marcus Harris had seven, Joshua Williams six, and Amani Hooker and Cedric Gray each had five. Cor’Dale Flott recorded four tackles and one interception, Jeffery Simmons had four tackles, and Michael Carter ran three times for 7 yards and caught one pass for 7 yards. Timmy Horne had three tackles, while Jermaine Johnson II, John Franklin-Myers, Cody Barton, Terrell Burgess and Truman Jones each had two. Solomon Thomas, Jacob Martin, Julius Chestnut, Nazir Stackhouse and James Williams Sr. each had one. Chimere Dike returned two kickoffs for 61 yards and one punt for 14 yards. Joey Slye made his only field goal attempt and punted once for 42 yards, and Tommy Townsend punted twice for 94 yards. For Cleveland, Judkins ran 17 times for 96 yards and caught one pass for 8 yards while scoring two touchdowns. Dylan Sampson had six carries for 45 yards and three receptions for 32 yards. KC Concepcion ran three times for 23 yards and caught eight passes for 129 yards. Harold Fannin Jr. caught six passes for 91 yards, Denzel Boston had three receptions for 27 yards and one tackle, and Jerry Jeudy caught four passes for 21 yards. Defensively, Adin Huntington had two tackles and one sack. Ronnie Hickman and Quincy Williams each made 10 tackles, Carson Schwesinger had nine, Grant Delpit six, Sam Williams five, and Myles Harden and Tyson Campbell four apiece. Emmanuel McNeil-Warren had three tackles, Denzel Ward had two tackles and one interception, and Winston Reid and Isaiah McGuire each had two tackles. Carnell Tate of Tennessee caught five passes for 69 yards and made one tackle. Cleveland entered after a 13-10 home win over Baltimore and had won two straight. The Browns’ other results this season include a 17-12 loss at the New York Jets, a 27-24 home win over Pittsburgh, a 21-18 home win over Carolina, a 23-19 win at Tampa Bay and a 34-10 loss at Jacksonville. Tennessee had beaten Indianapolis 26-20 in its most recent game before falling to Houston, Baltimore, the New York Giants, Philadelphia and the New York Jets earlier in the season. The Titans will next visit Cincinnati, while Cleveland will next visit Pittsburgh. In Watson’s previous game, he was 16 of 26 for 164 yards and ran eight times for 29 yards in the win over Baltimore. Interstat’s game simulator had projected a final score of Tennessee 27, Cleveland 22. Interstat’s ELO system had projected Cleveland with a 68.4 percent probability to win. Cleveland had been installed as a pregame favorite with a spread of minus 2. The total score of 51 went under the over/under line of 37.5.