Gold Coast bad boy Kevin Proctor will finish the season as the NRL club's captain - four months after being stripped of the honour.
The New Zealand representative was fined, suspended and stood down as Titans co-captain in May when caught in a cocaine bust after a Test against Australia.
Proctor was also asked to complete 50 hours of drug and alcohol prevention-related community service.
But the 28-year-old is back in the Titans' good books and been called on to serve what interim co-coach Terry Matterson described as a "team in need" ahead of Saturday's clash with Sydney Roosters.
Crippled by injury and suspension, Proctor will skipper a Titans side filled with rookies.
Matterson said it was an easy decision to reinstate Proctor with the captaincy after getting the all clear from the club's chief executive Graham Annesley.
"We're a club and a team in need at the moment and Kevin is one of our most senior players," the coach said.
"He's done some rehab, some work in the community - he's ready to go and his form's been outstanding too."
Regular captain Ryan James will miss the club's final game of the season with a shoulder complaint, while Dale Copley (groin), Nathan Peats (shoulder), Tyrone Roberts (shoulder) and Jarrod Wallace (suspension) are among the other absence senior members.
Leivaha Pulu, usually a forward, has been named in the centres while the Titans' bench is as raw as Matterson has seen it.
Ashley Taylor will be the only Titan to play every game this season, the highly rated star doing his best while the wheels fall off around him.
"We've been decimated by injury all year, but this is probably as bad as it has got," he said.
"They're difficult times; we haven't got anyone else (in the outside backs) and we didn't want to make three or four positional changes again, so we decided to go with that."
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