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Should the 49ers Sign Former Raiders CB Jack Jones?

The 49ers need a cornerback and an intriguing one just became available.
Grant Cohn|
Aug 17, 2024; Paradise, Nevada, USA; Las Vegas Raiders cornerback Jack Jones (18) and cornerback Jakorian Bennett (0) celebrate a play against the Dallas Cowboys in the first quarter at Allegiant Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Candice Ward-Imagn Images
Aug 17, 2024; Paradise, Nevada, USA; Las Vegas Raiders cornerback Jack Jones (18) and cornerback Jakorian Bennett (0) celebrate a play against the Dallas Cowboys in the first quarter at Allegiant Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Candice Ward-Imagn Images | Candice Ward-Imagn Images

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The 49ers need a cornerback and an intriguing one just became available.

The Raiders have released veteran cornerback Jack Jones after trying unsuccessfully to trade him according to reports. Which means Jones soon will join his third team.

The Patriots drafted Jones in Round 4 of the 2022 NFL Draft and he played well as a No. 3 cornerback during the first season of his career. But going into his second season, he got arrested. And during his second season, he struggled big time, and so the Patriots waived him after five games.

The Raiders picked up Jones because their coach at the time, Antonio Pierce, coached Jones in high school. And he played well for them as a No. 3 cornerback for the rest of 2023. But in 2024, he became a starter and struggled once again. This time, he gave up a whopping 8 touchdown catches in 17 games.

Now, the Raiders have a new head coach -- Pete Carroll. He has no ties to Jones and no need to rely on such an up-and-down player. So Carroll released him.

Should the 49ers sign him?

I'm guessing they won't because Robert Saleh is a Pete Carroll disciple, and if Carroll doesn't like a cornerback, I'm guessing Saleh wouldn't, either. But the 49ers certainly need a quality No. 3 cornerback to play with Deommodore Lenoir and Renardo Green, and Jones still has big-time talent. And at that point in his career, he's probably cheap.

The 49ers should take a flier on Jones. They have nothing to lose.

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Grant Cohn has covered the San Francisco 49ers daily since 2011. He spent the first nine years of his career with the Santa Rosa Press Democrat where he wrote the Inside the 49ers blog and covered famous coaches and athletes such as Jim Harbaugh, Colin Kaepernick and Patrick Willis. In 2012, Inside the 49ers won Sports Blog of the Year from the Peninsula Press Club. In 2020, Cohn joined FanNation and began writing All49ers. In addition, he created a YouTube channel which has become the go-to place on YouTube to consume 49ers content. Cohn's channel typically generates roughly 3.5 million viewers per month, while the 49ers' official YouTube channel generates roughly 1.5 million viewers per month. Cohn live streams almost every day and posts videos hourly during the football season. Cohn is committed to asking the questions that 49ers fans want answered, and providing the most honest and interactive coverage in the country. His loyalty is to the reader and the viewer, not the team or any player or coach. Cohn is a new-age multimedia journalist with an old-school mentality, because his father is Lowell Cohn, the legendary sports columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle from 1979 to 1993. The two have a live podcast every Tuesday. Grant Cohn grew up in Oakland and studied English Literature at UCLA from 2006 to 2010. He currently lives in Oakland with his wife.

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