{"id":161992,"date":"2025-06-27T07:08:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T07:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/161992\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T07:08:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T07:08:12","slug":"john-jenkins-aims-to-dominate-in-tandem-with-travis-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/161992\/","title":{"rendered":"John Jenkins Aims to \u2018Dominate\u2019 in Tandem With Travis Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even though Pierce’s snap count dropped from 55% to 32% last season, he was still a major part of that equation and somebody that Jenkins emulates. Jenkins remembers studying Pierce on tape alongside his Las Vegas Raiders teammates last season and called him a “great player.”<\/p>\n

Unlike Pierce, who retired at 32 years old, Jenkins will turn 36 years old before Ravens training camp begins and still has the desire to play the game.<\/p>\n

Jenkins was a full 17-game starter for the first time in his career each of the past two seasons with the Raiders. In 2023, he set a career high in snaps played (594) and tackles (61). Then he topped that with 609 snaps last season, more than any Ravens defensive lineman except Nnamdi Madubuike. Jenkins said he didn’t know he played that many snaps.<\/p>\n

“Probably the reason why I never knew is because we enjoyed being out there with each other \u2013 that cohesiveness and the brotherhood that we built over there [in Vegas],” Jenkins said. “And that is what we’re doing here.<\/p>\n

“I’m just here to help out the best way I can. Whatever God has in store for me, whatever the team believes is my perfect role, I’m just here to fulfill that.”<\/p>\n

Jenkins will likely see a significantly lighter workload in Baltimore because of Jones’ presence. The Ravens expect Jones to become one of the NFL\u2019s premier defensive tackles<\/a> this season, and Jenkins echoes that belief.<\/p>\n

“He can be a dominant player \u2013 extremely dominant. He’s going to be that,” Jenkins said. “I love his mindset on it. He reminds me of a former teammate, Akiem Hicks. Travis wants to be a special player. I see it. I just like his approach to the game with him being so young.”<\/p>\n

Pierce’s retirement, though not unexpected, was still a hit to Baltimore’s defensive line. Jenkins is a proven commodity to help offset the loss, both on the field and off it with his knowledge.<\/p>\n

“I’m happy to be here,” he said. “I’m happy that this organization decided to pursue me and thought I was good enough to play for them and where we’re going to go, man.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Even though Pierce’s snap count dropped from 55% to 32% last season, he was still a major part…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2052],"tags":[184,117,2282,7,781,786,20472,12304,6,782,169,1049],"class_list":{"0":"post-161992","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baltimore-ravens","8":"tag-baltimore","9":"tag-baltimore-ravens","10":"tag-baltimoreravens","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-general","13":"tag-homepage-centerpiece","14":"tag-inline-news","15":"tag-john-jenkins","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-offseason","18":"tag-ravens","19":"tag-ryan-mink"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114754074059221902","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}