{"id":413774,"date":"2026-01-17T22:35:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T22:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/413774\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T22:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T22:35:07","slug":"seahawks-elevate-rb-velus-jones-jr-from-practice-squad-for-divisional-round-game-vs-49ers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/413774\/","title":{"rendered":"Seahawks Elevate RB Velus Jones Jr. From Practice Squad For Divisional Round Game vs. 49ers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Seahawks elevated running back Velus Jones Jr. from the practice squad on Saturday, adding running back depth ahead of their divisional round playoff game against the 49ers.<\/p>\n<p>Jones, who signed with the Seahawks earlier this season, appeared in three games during the regular season, rushing four times for 32 yards. He gives the Seahawks a third running back behind Kenneth Walker III and Zach Charbonnet with George Holani still on injured reserve.<\/p>\n<p>A third-round pick of the Bears in 2022, Jones has appeared in 37 career games with two starts, carrying 24 times for 197 yards while catching 12 passes for 135 yards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Seahawks elevated running back Velus Jones Jr. from the practice squad on Saturday, adding running back depth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[13041,16345,13040,349,195798,99,169321],"class_list":["post-413774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-news-national-feature","tag-news-roster-moves","tag-news-stories","tag-nfl","tag-san-francisco-49ers-at-seattle-seahawks-2025-post-2","tag-sports","tag-velus-jones-jr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}