{"id":651750,"date":"2026-05-19T05:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T05:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/651750\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T05:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T05:17:08","slug":"packers-sign-vanderbilt-cornerback-marlon-jones-to-fill-out-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/651750\/","title":{"rendered":"Packers sign Vanderbilt cornerback Marlon Jones to fill out roster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Jones began his college career in 2019 with the Eastern Washington Eagles in the FCS, where he played for four seasons before transferring to the FBS in 2024. He missed his first season with the Commadores, as he was battling cancer at the time. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6556190\/2025\/08\/17\/marlon-jones-vanderbilt-cancer-survivor\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">According to The Athletic<\/a>, Jones was diagnosed with stage 3 Hodgkin\u2019s lymphoma on the day before his scheduled move to Nashville.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Returning to the field in 2025, Jones, a former high school track star, was able to make nine tackles in nine games of action. While he didn\u2019t record an interception last year, he did have three interceptions in each of his final three years of his EWU career, including two returned for touchdowns in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Packers didn\u2019t add an undrafted free agent cornerback until Jones\u2019 signing. Jones will join fellow rookies Brandon Cisse (second-round pick) and Domani Jackson (sixth-round pick) in a young cornerback room. They will battle Keisean Nixon, Carrington Valentine, free-agent signing Benjamin St-Juste, Kamal Hadden, Jaylin Simpson, Shemar Bartholomew and M.J. Devonshire for roster spots and playing time. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acmepackingcompany.com\/green-bay-packers-news\/82734\/green-bay-packers-add-2-players-off-waivers-roster-full\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Devonshire was added off waivers last week<\/a>, as the Packers continue to churn the bottom of their roster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jones began his college career in 2019 with the Eastern Washington Eagles in the FCS, where he played&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":651751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[18813,18811,18815,349,99],"class_list":["post-651750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-green-bay-packers-depth-chart","tag-green-bay-packers-news","tag-green-bay-packers-roster","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651750","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=651750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/651751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}