The Saskatchewan Roughriders have signed American\u202flinebacker\u202fVi Jones.\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jones\u202f(6\u20192-225)\u202fsigned with the Seattle Seahawks as an undrafted free agent in 2022\u202fand appeared\u202fin three games as a\u202frookie.\u00a0He\u202fsubsequently\u202fspent time with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (2023-24), earning two forced fumbles and nine defensive tackles in seven games in 2024.\u202fBoth forced fumbles were in the same game \u2014\u202fagainst the host Los Angeles Chargers on Dec. 15, 2024 \u2014 and were on back-to-back plays. The Chargers recovered the first fumble made on a kickoff return, but Jones forced a turnover\u202fby dislodging the football\u202fonce more\u202fon the following play from scrimmage. He went on to join the Cardinals for 2025 registering 10 tackles in three pre-season games before being\u202famong the Cardinals\u2019 final cuts.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Collegiately, Jones played for USC (2017-18) before transferring to North Carolina State in 2019. As a senior\u202fin 2021, he had 45\u202ftackles (including eight for a loss),\u202fsix sacks, 12 quarterback\u00a0hurries\u00a0and a blocked kick\u202fin 12 games.\u202fIn 2020, he blocked three kicks \u2014\u202ftying him for the\u202flead in\u202fFBS\u202f\u2014\u202fand started four games at weak-side\u00a0linebacker. He\u202fwas a co-recipient of\u202fthe Wolfpack\u2019s\u202fSpecial Teams Player of the Year award\u202ffor 2020.\u202fHe had 28 total tackles in 21 games over two seasons at USC.\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Saskatchewan Roughriders have signed American\u202flinebacker\u202fVi Jones.\u202f\u00a0 Jones\u202f(6\u20192-225)\u202fsigned with the Seattle Seahawks as an undrafted free agent in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-439682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}