49ers sign a cornerback who started in every game last year

The San Francisco 49ers hosted former Miami Dolphins cornerback Jack Jones on Friday. ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported he has signed a one-year cope with the Niners. Jones started all 17 video games for the Dolphins last season and performed over 91 % of the snaps. Jones additionally performed practically 1,000 snaps the year earlier than with the Las Vegas Raiders, the place he started 16 video games.

Jones, a fourth-round pick of Arizona State in 2022, was focused 40 instances last season. He allowed 23 completions for a median of seven.9 yards per goal and 6 touchdowns. Jones additionally allowed eight touchdowns on 67 targets in 2024. However, he is discovered a solution to be aggressive, as evidenced by his 18 mixed cross breakups and 4 interceptions (two of them drops) in the earlier two seasons

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Jones was comparatively undersized coming into the NFL, AT 5’10 3/4 and 171 kilos. Some of that dimension could be mitigated by taking part in to the huge aspect of the sphere. The Dolphins used Jones because the “field” cornerback on 82.1 % of his snaps. When you play to the far aspect of the sphere, you are not going to be focused usually. That was the case for Jones, regardless of taking part in as usually as he did.

Through the primary 16 weeks of the season, Jones was focused on the 2nd-lowest fee amongst cornerbacks with at the very least 150 protection snaps. Jones led that very same group with the fewest yards allowed per protection snap. The touchdowns Jones did permit had been on downfield targets. With the way in which that groups are utilizing cornerbacks in protection in right this moment’s NFL, there are methods to keep away from matchups the place a participant like Jones finally ends up on a participant like Marvin Harrison Jr., for instance. That’s what it appears like Miami tried to do last season.