Raiders Release Jack Jones: what the talented and inconsistent CB brings to the table
The Las Vegas Raiders released the cornerback Jack Jones Sunday, a source of the championship confirmed Atletico.
The NFL network was the first to report the news.
The raiders had explored the Possibility to exchange Joneswho should have earned $ 3.4 million in 2025, the last year of his contract. Except for a trade, the team had planned to free him.
Jones, 27, played in 42 games, including 21 departures, in three seasons with Patriots and Raiders. He has seven career interceptions, four of which has returned to touchdown and 136 total contrasts.
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Flashes of potential, but unruly
Jones started a strong start of his career with the New England Patriots in 2022, but fought to stay healthy on the field and was unruly. In the summer of 2023, he was arrested when pistols loaded in his hand luggage at Boston Logan airport were found.
While the accusations were subsequently eliminated, the problems did not stop there. He lost the curfew at the Patriots’ Team Hotel before the competition of Week 9 and was released shortly after.
The raiders subsequently claimed Jones on renunciations. The then coach Antonio Pierce had trained Jones at high school and college and he felt that he was worth the risk. Jones has rewarded his faith with a brilliant trait of play in the last seven games of the season.
Jones entered 2024 with great expectations, but it was not short. It was an appetizer of week 1 but was on the bench in week 4 due to the lack of efforts of a week 3 late for the Carolina Panthers. He started the rest of the season, but his game was wildly inconsistent. He has often renounced great theatrical performances, he has taken on unnecessary risks and was a non -factor in supporting the race.
When Pierce was fired after the 2024 season, Jones lost his biggest lawyer. After spending a couple of months to evaluate, the new regime of the general manager John Spytek and the coach Pete Carroll at the end decided to separate from Jones.
For any team he acquires Jones, the hope is that he can find consistency on the field and make better decisions from the field. If this materializes, it is an external corner of initial caliber.
The raiders are short of options in the cornerback room
As for the raiders, their cornerback room seems rather thin. Outside the cornerback, it will be a three -way competition between Jakorian Bennett, Decamerion Richardson and Eric Stokes for the two initial two roles. Everyone has the size, speed and physicality that Carroll is known in his external cornerback. The raiders could feel good for that group, but they would be wise to explore potential additions through the draft of 2025.
Things are much more squalid in Nickelback after losing born Hobbs against the Green Bay Packers in the free agency. At present, Darnay Holmes and Thomas Harper would have competed for the starting point. While both players had their moments in 2024-Ei Raiders could also rotate the security isaiah Pola-Mao and Jeremy Chinn in Nickelback-it is difficult to feel good for that point in 2025.
Whether it’s an external corner or nickelback – or someone who can both play – the cornerback stands out as a great need for raiders who enter the draft.
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