{"id":851626,"date":"2026-08-09T09:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T09:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/851626\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T09:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T09:04:09","slug":"seahawks-sign-rb-justin-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/851626\/","title":{"rendered":"Seahawks Sign RB Justin Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Seahawks signed running back Justin Jones on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The Seahawks added running back depth ahead of Saturday&#8217;s Football Fest at Lumen Field, signing Justin Jones, an undrafted rookie out of Auburn.<\/p>\n<p>Linebacker Power Echols, who signed earlier in the week, was waived to make room on the 90-man roster.<\/p>\n<p>Jones, who took part in Seattle&#8217;s rookie minicamp in May as a tryout player, saw limited action at running back at Auburn, but was a special teams standout, recording a blocked punt and four special teams tackles last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Seahawks signed running back Justin Jones on Saturday. The Seahawks added running back depth ahead of Saturday&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":851627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,296142,61731,122034,61730,514,82],"class_list":["post-851626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-justin-jones","tag-news-national-feature","tag-news-roster-moves","tag-news-stories","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851626","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=851626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/851627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}