{"id":441686,"date":"2026-08-24T03:22:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T03:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/441686\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T03:22:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T03:22:43","slug":"source-49ers-trade-zamir-white-to-saints-for-deion-jones-nbc-sports-bay-area-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/441686\/","title":{"rendered":"Source: 49ers trade Zamir White to Saints for Deion Jones \u2013 NBC Sports Bay Area &#038; California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 49ers have more defensive depth on the way.<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco is acquiring 10-year NFL veteran linebacker Deion Jones in a trade with the New Orleans Saints in exchange for running back Zamir White, a league source confirmed to NBC Sports Bay Area&#8217;s Jennifer Lee Chan on Sunday. ESPN&#8217;s Adam Schefter was first to report the news.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">League source confirms the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/49ers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">#49ers<\/a> are trading  RB Zamir White in exchange for Saints LB Deion Jones as <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AdamSchefter?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">@AdamSchefter<\/a> reported<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jennifer Lee Chan -all platforms: @jenniferleechan (@jenniferleechan) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jenniferleechan\/status\/2091712838851281242?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">August 24, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In White, the Saints receive more help at running back after Alvin Kamara went down with a knee injury during the preseason. The 49ers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsbayarea.com\/nfl\/san-francisco-49ers\/zamir-white-contract-injury-update\/1956147\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">just signed White on Aug. 12<\/a> as they dealt with backfield injuries of their own, but with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsbayarea.com\/nfl\/san-francisco-49ers\/christian-mccaffrey-injury-practice-absence\/1958262\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Christian McCaffrey returning to practice<\/a> Sunday, they&#8217;re in a much better spot.<\/p>\n<p>Jones has spent time with six NFL teams, most recently the Tampa Bay Buccaneers where he spent plenty of time with the practice squad, before signing with the Saints earlier this month. The 31-year-old played under <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsbayarea.com\/nfl\/san-francisco-49ers\/defensive-backs-unleashed-raheem-morris\/1955118\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">new 49ers defensive coordinator Raheem Morris<\/a> from 2016-2020 on the Atlanta Falcons and was a Pro Bowl selection there in 2017.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/49ers-talk-with-matt-maiocco.simplecast.com\/episodes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Download and follow the 49ers Talk Podcast<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 49ers have more defensive depth on the way. San Francisco is acquiring 10-year NFL veteran linebacker Deion&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[81266,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-441686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-nfl-rumors","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}