The San Francisco 49ers have released cornerback Jack Jones to make room for DeForest Buckner. It was a relatively easy decision after Jones had a rough outing against the Atlanta Falcons in Week 7.<\/p>\n
That wasn\u2019t the only time Jones struggled this season. In Week 3, Jones gave up 53 yards in coverage on five targets.<\/p>\n
Atlanta picked on Jones in coverage. He allowed four of his five targets to be completed for 49 yards, allowing a passer rating of 107.5. In five games this season, Jones was targeted over 30% of the time when he was on the field. Teams were not scared of him.<\/p>\n
Against Atlanta, Jones allowed 5.8 yards of separation on five targets. Add in the penalties, and he became unplayable, since the run defense and tackling were a struggle.<\/p>\n
With Upton Stout out, Deommodore Lenoir moved to nickel, and Jones played Lenoir\u2019s boundary role in obvious passing situations. Once Jones was benched, the Niners turned to rookie Ephesians Prysock.<\/p>\n
The 49ers will actually save money by releasing Jones, according to Over the Cap. He signed a one-year deal, and the contract has no guaranteed money beyond what appears to be a $140,000 signing bonus.<\/p>\n
Cornerback Nate Hobbs remains on the injured reserve. That\u2019s a potential veteran replacement in the second half if the 49ers don\u2019t address cornerback ahead of the trade deadline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Francisco 49ers have released cornerback Jack Jones to make room for DeForest Buckner. It was a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":511547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,71022,3323,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-511546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-49ers-free-agency","tag-san-francisco-49ers-roster","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\/511546","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=511546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}