{"id":11924,"date":"2025-07-21T22:54:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T22:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/11924\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T22:54:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T22:54:11","slug":"jadeveon-clowney-still-planning-to-play-in-2025-nfl-season-amid-free-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/11924\/","title":{"rendered":"Jadeveon Clowney ‘Still Planning to Play’ in 2025 NFL Season Amid Free Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"

Free agent Jadeveon Clowney is \u201cstill planning\u201d to play in the 2025 season and has been in contact with \u201cfour or five teams,\u201d according to\u00a0NFL insider Josina Anderson<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“I’m still planning to play this season,” Clooney told Anderson on Monday. <\/p>\n

Following teams\u2019 training camps, they\u2019ll have a better idea of what they need and what they have, per Anderson.<\/p>\n

The No. 1 overall pick in the 2014 NFL Draft by the Houston Texans, Clowney spent five seasons with the team, recording 11 passes defended, five forced fumbles and five fumble recoveries \u2014 two of which he returned for touchdowns. He also tallied 29 sacks, 205 combined tackles, 64 tackles for loss and 67 quarterback hits.<\/p>\n

Since his time in Houston, Clowney has bounced around the league, spending six seasons with Cleveland, Baltimore, Carolina, Seattle and Tennessee.<\/p>\n

Last season with the Carolina Panthers, he recorded 24 solo tackles, 5.5 sacks and four passes defended.<\/p>\n

The 32-year-old pass rusher was released by the Panthers with one year remaining on his contract. He told\u00a0The Athletic\u2019s Joe Person<\/a> that while he saw it coming, it didn\u2019t make it any easier.<\/p>\n

\u201cI went to OTAs Day 1 and they kinda told me they weren\u2019t expecting me to be there. I got a sense then they wanted me out of the building,\u201d\u00a0Clowney said. \u201cI was just like, \u2018Y\u2019all could\u2019ve told me this back when I was coming in here during the offseason.\u2019 I kinda had a sense, though. I\u2019ve been around the game long enough to know, so I was OK.\u201d<\/p>\n

With conversations \u201cintermittently going\u201d between a handful of teams, the linebacker appears likely to return for his 12th NFL season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Free agent Jadeveon Clowney is \u201cstill planning\u201d to play in the 2025 season and has been in contact…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-11924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}