-The Titans signed cornerback Jaylon Jones to the team’s 53-man roster on Thursday, and waived defensive back Melvin Smith Jr.<\/p>\n
Jones was on the practice field on Thursday, in No. 42.<\/p>\n
“Blessed to get the opportunity to come here and work with the guys,” Jones said. “I’m excited, man.”<\/p>\n
Jones, who played at Texas A&M, was a seventh-round draft pick of the Colts in the 2023 NFL Draft and he played from 2023-2025 in Indianapolis.<\/p>\n
Jones (6-2, 203) logged 44 games, with 29 starts, and he recorded 162 tackles, two interceptions and 21 passes defensed. He missed the first part of last season with a hamstring injury. Jones started all 17 games for the Colts in 2024. Jones was waived by the Colts on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
“Just (try) to get up to speed pretty quick,” Jones said. “I’ve been in this defense before, so I’m ready to get to work.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"-The Titans signed cornerback Jaylon Jones to the team’s 53-man roster on Thursday, and waived defensive back Melvin…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":997310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2061],"tags":[130603,7,786,130602,37466,6,1018,526,394,2411,527],"class_list":["post-997309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennessee-titans","tag-2026-09-13-pregame-stories-jets-at-titans","tag-football","tag-homepage-centerpiece","tag-new-york-jets-at-tennessee-titans-2026-reg-1","tag-news-quick-hits","tag-nfl","tag-team-football-news","tag-tennessee","tag-tennessee-titans","tag-tennesseetitans","tag-titans"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117248785365381136","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997309","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=997309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/997310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=997309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=997309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=997309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}