{"id":2051,"date":"2026-08-07T23:37:56","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T23:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=2051"},"modified":"2026-08-07T23:37:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T23:37:56","slug":"report-new-orleans-native-deion-jones-to-sign-with-saints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=2051","title":{"rendered":"Report: New Orleans native Deion Jones to sign with Saints"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.deadspin.com\/tr:w-1200,h-675,fo-auto\/25175742.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Report: New Orleans native Deion Jones to sign with Saints\" title=\"Report: New Orleans native Deion Jones to sign with Saints\" \/><\/div><p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<section id=\"0\" class=\" w-full\">\n<div class=\"xl:container mx-0 !px-4 py-0 pb-4 !mx-0 !px-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.deadspin.com\/tr:w-1200,fo-auto\/25175742.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.deadspin.com\/tr:w-400,fo-auto\/25175742.jpg 400w, https:\/\/images.deadspin.com\/tr:w-800,fo-auto\/25175742.jpg 800w, https:\/\/images.deadspin.com\/tr:w-1200,fo-auto\/25175742.jpg 1200w\" alt=\"Jan 12, 2025; Tampa, Florida, USA; Tampa Bay Buccaneers linebacker Deion Jones (45) greets a fan before a NFC wild card playoff against the Washington Commanders at Raymond James Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kim Klement Neitzel-Imagn Images\" class=\"w-full\" sizes=\"1200px\" fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\"\/><span class=\"text-0.8 leading-tight\">Jan 12, 2025; Tampa, Florida, USA; Tampa Bay Buccaneers linebacker Deion Jones (45) greets a fan before a NFC wild card playoff against the Washington Commanders at Raymond James Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kim Klement Neitzel-Imagn Images<!-- --> <!-- --> <\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-1\">\n<p>Linebacker Deion Jones will complete his tour of playing for each NFC South team by signing a one-year contract with the New Orleans Saints, ESPN reported on Friday.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-2\">\n<p>Financial terms were not disclosed in the deal with Jones, who is from New Orleans and attended LSU.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/p>\n<section id=\"section-3\">\n<p>Jones, 31, played his first six seasons with the Atlanta Falcons and topped 100 tackles in five of them, earning Pro Bowl honors in 2017.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-4\">\n<p>Jones had 29 tackles in 17 games last season with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-5\">\n<p>He has totaled 761 tackles, 12 sacks and 13 interceptions &#8212; including five returned for touchdowns &#8212; in 128 career games with the Falcons (2016-21), Cleveland Browns (2022), Carolina Panthers (2023) and Buccaneers (2024-25). He was selected by the Falcons in the second round of the 2016 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/p>\n<section id=\"section-6\">\n<p>&#8211;Field Level Media<\/p>\n<\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan 12, 2025; Tampa, Florida, USA; Tampa Bay Buccaneers linebacker Deion Jones (45) greets a fan before a NFC wild card playoff against the Washington Commanders at Raymond James Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kim Klement Neitzel-Imagn Images Linebacker Deion Jones will complete his tour of playing for each NFC South team by signing a one-year contract&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.deadspin.com\/tr:w-1200,h-675,fo-auto\/25175742.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[3819,186,3818,3817,442,3820,1456],"class_list":["post-2051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-deion","tag-jones","tag-native","tag-orleans","tag-report","tag-saints","tag-sign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}