{"id":46275,"date":"2025-05-13T08:15:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T08:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/46275\/"},"modified":"2025-05-13T08:15:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T08:15:16","slug":"jaylon-smith-joins-the-raiders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/46275\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaylon Smith joins the Raiders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Cowboys linebacker Jaylon Smith, who was out of football entirely in 2024, is returning to the league.<\/p>\n<p>Smith signed with the Las Vegas Raiders this week in an attempt to resurrect his career.<\/p>\n<p>Smith, a second-round pick (34th overall) of the Cowboys in 2016, played five seasons in Dallas and earned a Pro Bowl selection in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>He was cut by the Cowboys in 2021 and he played 20 combined games over the next three years with the Packers, Giants and one game with the Raiders in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Smith was projected to be a Top 5 pick in 2016 before suffering a major knee injury in Notre Dame&#8217;s bowl game. He still played 56 games in Dallas, totaling three seasons of 100+ tackles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Cowboys linebacker Jaylon Smith, who was out of football entirely in 2024, is returning to the league.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2065],"tags":[419,7,14268,1744,393,2455,2454,417,1900,16024,6,525],"class_list":{"0":"post-46275","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-las-vegas-raiders","8":"tag-featured-offseason-2025","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-jaylon-smith","11":"tag-las-vegas","12":"tag-las-vegas-raiders","13":"tag-lasvegas","14":"tag-lasvegasraiders","15":"tag-news-all-news","16":"tag-news-nick-eatman","17":"tag-news-past-present","18":"tag-nfl","19":"tag-raiders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114499533156616972","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46275","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=46275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}