{"id":355747,"date":"2026-07-29T02:42:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T02:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/355747\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T02:42:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T02:42:23","slug":"dane-jackson-retires-former-bills-cb-signed-with-jaguars-in-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/355747\/","title":{"rendered":"Dane Jackson retires, former Bills CB signed with Jaguars in June"},"content":{"rendered":"

July 28, 2026, 3:15 p.m. ET<\/p>\n

Veteran players on the Jacksonville Jaguars<\/a> were due to report to training camp on July 28. One of those veterans has chosen a different option instead.<\/p>\n

Cornerback Dane Jackson<\/a> has retired, according to a press release<\/a> from the Jaguars<\/a> on Tuesday, July 28. The team officially placed Jackson on the Reserve\/Retired list and also signed cornerback Corey Ballentine<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Jackson, 29, was set to play in his seventh season in the NFL and his first with the Jaguars. The former Buffalo Bills<\/a> defender signed a one-year, $1.22 million deal with Jacksonville in June, but he has decided to retire before playing out his contract.<\/p>\n

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Prior to signing with the Jaguars, Jackson spent most of his career with the Bills<\/a>. Buffalo drafted the cornerback in the seventh round of the 2020 NFL Draft, and he played four seasons there before signing a two-year deal with the Carolina Panthers<\/a> in 2024.<\/p>\n

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After Carolina released Jackson in February 2025, he signed on with the Bills for a second stint. Jackson spent most of the 2025 season on Buffalo’s practice squad, though the team promoted him to the active roster ahead of its wild-card game against the Jaguars in January.<\/p>\n

Jackson finishes his career having recorded 178 tackles, 30 pass defenses, three interceptions and two forced fumbles across 64 games (31 starts).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"July 28, 2026, 3:15 p.m. ET Veteran players on the Jacksonville Jaguars were due to report to training…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355748,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,47,116,118,117,112428,1254,1255,298,10367,5105,145054,126331,2053,1758,420,342,332,442,49,145155,300,2052,34],"class_list":["post-355747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-accessmetered","tag-fl","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-sourceusa-today","tag-sstssportsnfljaguars","tag-sstsnjacksonville-jaguars","tag-tagamerican-football","tag-tagbuffalo-bills","tag-tagcarolina-panthers","tag-tagcorey-ballentine","tag-tagdane-jackson","tag-tagdetroit-lions","tag-tagjacksonville","tag-tagjacksonville-jaguars","tag-tagnational-sports","tag-tagnfl","tag-tagnfl-hub","tag-tagoverall-neutral","tag-tagpat-oconnor","tag-tagsports-news","tag-tagtampa-bay-buccaneers","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}