{"id":875426,"date":"2026-04-26T19:36:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T19:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/875426\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T19:36:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T19:36:20","slug":"patriots-veteran-pass-rusher-reportedly-signs-with-nfc-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/875426\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriots Veteran Pass Rusher Reportedly Signs With NFC Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A longtime <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/new-england-patriots\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New England Patriots<\/a> defender has reportedly found a new home.<\/p>\n<p>Anfernee Jennings signed a one-year deal with the New Orleans Saints, per <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JFowlerESPN\/status\/2048461961113764131\" rel=\"nofollow\">ESPN&#8217;s Jeremy Fowler<\/a>. The pass rusher has played 75 games over five seasons with the Patriots.<\/p>\n<p>New England drafted Jennings with the No. 87 pick of the 2020 NFL Draft out of Alabama. He notched two of his 7.5 career sacks last season despite playing a reduced role under head coach Mike Vrabel.<\/p>\n<p>Jennings had started 30 games in 2023 and 2024 before garnering just three regular-season starts in 2025. He went from playing a career-high 831 defensive snaps for Jerod Mayo to 280 under Vrabel.<\/p>\n<p>However, Jennings made his presence felt during New England&#8217;s AFC title run with 16 postseason tackles, two sacks and three quarterback hits. The 28-year-old recorded one of his six tackles for a loss when starting a Super Bowl LX loss to the Seattle Seahawks.<\/p>\n<p>The Patriots saved $3.8 million in salary cap space by releasing Jennings in March. They also watched\u00a0K&#8217;Lavon Chaisson\u00a0sign a one-year contract with the Washington Commanders, but they addressed their pass rush <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/new-england-patriots\/news\/why-free-agent-signee-dremont-jones-chose-patriots\/adef5793b3a461136bffbdd6\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">by signing<\/a> Dre&#8217;Mont Jones to a three-year deal and <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/new-england-patriots\/news\/patriots-make-aggressive-trade-select-edge-gabe-jacas-second-round\/257a51746a6a3f0382c054a6\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">trading up to draft<\/a> Gabe Jacas in the second round on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Jennings joins a Saints defense that tallied 45 sacks last season, 10 more than the Patriots. The move comes a day after they traded a fifth-round pick to the Las Vegas Raiders for Tyree Wilson, the No. 7 overall selection in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>More NFL:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/new-england-patriots\/news\/patriots-sign-udfa-tight-end-illinois-tanner-arkin\/2cd5e447e6e30d8ef4721da0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Patriots Sign 6-Foot-4 UDFA Tight End, Illinois Team Captain<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A longtime New England Patriots defender has reportedly found a new home. Anfernee Jennings signed a one-year deal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":875427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2050],"tags":[7,1167,249,2326,2094,6,208],"class_list":{"0":"post-875426","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-england-patriots","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-new-england","10":"tag-new-england-patriots","11":"tag-newengland","12":"tag-newenglandpatriots","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-patriots"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116472694890377460","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875426","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=875426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/875427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}