The Seahawks are making a change at linebacker, having agreed to a trade with the Titans to acquire Ernest Jones IV.<\/p>\n
The trade, which is pending physicals, will send linebacker Jerome Baker to Tennessee, along with draft-pick compensation, in exchange for Jones, a 2021 third-round pick<\/p>\n
Jones, 24, spent his first three seasons with the Rams, then was traded to Tennessee prior to the start of this season. Jones took over a starting job midway through his rookie season, starting seven games, then started 11 games in 2022 and 15 games last season. During the 2023 season, his first as an every-down linebacker, Jones recorded a Rams franchise record 145 tackles, 4.5 sacks, six passes defensed, 14 tackles for loss and six quarterback hits.<\/p>\n
In his six games with the Titans, Jones had 44 tackles, three tackles for loss and two passes defensed. Jones should arrive in Seattle familiar with Mike Macdonald’s defense, having played in a similar scheme in Tennessee under defensive coordinator Dennard Wilson. Before joining the Titans this year, Wilson spent the 2023 season working with Macdonald as Baltimore’s defensive backs coach, and he brought a similar scheme with him to Tennessee.<\/p>\n
Baker, 27, signed with the Seahawks as a free agent this offseason after spending his first six seasons with the Dolphins. After being limited in training camp by a hamstring injury, Baker made it back for Seattle’s season opener, but later injured his hamstring again in a Week 2 victory in New England, causing him to miss the next two games. In five starts, Baker recorded 30 tackles, two tackles for loss, one sack, two passes defensed, a forced fumble and a fumble recovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Seahawks are making a change at linebacker, having agreed to a trade with the Titans to acquire…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2061],"tags":[7,509,507,6399,506,6,526,394,2411,527],"class_list":{"0":"post-166212","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennessee-titans","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-homepage-hero","10":"tag-news-national-feature","11":"tag-news-roster-moves","12":"tag-news-stories","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-tennessee","15":"tag-tennessee-titans","16":"tag-tennesseetitans","17":"tag-titans"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114763180714088237","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166212","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=166212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}