{"id":820472,"date":"2026-03-19T03:53:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T03:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/820472\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T03:53:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T03:53:26","slug":"nfl-world-reacts-to-tony-jefferson-re-signing-with-chargers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/820472\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL world reacts to Tony Jefferson re-signing with Chargers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/los-angeles-chargers\/357\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Chargers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Chargers&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Chargers<\/a> re-signed Tony Jefferson to a one-year, $2 million deal Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Jefferson is somewhat of a national treasure to Bolts fans as he came out of retirement in 2024 to play for the Chargers. Since then, he has returned on a one-year deal for the past two seasons and it remained unclear whether the fan favorite would return in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Lo and behold, Jefferson is back.<\/p>\n<p>In the past two seasons with the Chargers, the safety has recorded 84 tackles (54 solo), four interceptions, seven pass breakups and two tackles for loss. At age 34, Jefferson set a career-high last season with four interceptions, which tied for third-most in the AFC.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the most notable stat from Jefferson&#8217;s performance last season was his passer rating just 36.7 in coverage, which ranking third among all safeties according to Pro Football Focus. He has worked with Chargers defensive coordinator Chris O&#8217;Leary before and will now play under him as Jefferson is set to provide depth for the unit.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how the NFL world reacted on social media to the Chargers re-signing Jefferson:<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Chargers Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/chargerswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/chargers\/2026\/03\/18\/chargers-sign-tony-jefferson-social-media-reactions-nfl-free-agency\/89216133007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Chargers re-sign Tony Jefferson: Social media reactions;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Chargers re-sign Tony Jefferson&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Chargers re-sign Tony Jefferson: Social media reactions<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chargers re-signed Tony Jefferson to a one-year, $2 million deal Monday. Jefferson is somewhat of a national&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":820473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[241,7,6085,6,4000,5340,15079,8401],"class_list":{"0":"post-820472","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-chargers","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-jordan-schultz","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-rashee-rice","13":"tag-the-chargers","14":"tag-tony-jefferson","15":"tag-trey-pipkins"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116253819473034777","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820472","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=820472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}