Jaguars sign wide receiver Tevin Jones, release linebacker Leon Jacobs and kicker Aldrick Rosas

The Jacksonville Jaguars announced several roster moves on Friday evening. The team announced it has signed wide receiver Tevin Jones, while releasing linebacker Leon Jacobs and kicker Aldrick Rosas.

After a solid college career at Memphis where Jones caught 90 passes for 1,215 yards and nine touchdowns, he entered the NFL as an undrafted free agent in 2016, initially signing with the Houston Texans.

Jones bounced around the league after his short stint with the Texans, playing with the Kansas City Chiefs, Pittsburgh Steelers and Dallas Cowboys between 2017 and 2020. Most recently, he signed with the CFL’s Saskatchewan Roughriders in April 2021.

Jones has only played in five career NFL games, all with the Steelers in 2019. He has recorded four career catches for 61 yards.

As for Rosas, he was expected to compete with Josh Lambo for the starting job at kicker, but didn’t get a training camp practice in after recently being placed on the active/non-football injury list. A lot of the talk during OTAs and minicamp was that there was a legitimate kicking competition between Rosas and Lambo, but the job is now firmly Lambo’s, who has impressed thus far in the early part of training camp.

With Lambo injured for much of the 2020 season, Rosas — a former Pro Bowler in 2018 —made eight of his 11 field goal attempts, and all nine of his extra point attempts, in six games with the Jaguars last year.

Jacobs, a seventh-round pick for the Jaguars in 2018 (No. 230 overall), actually started 12 games as a strong-side linebacker, and appeared in 29 games total, during his career. He accumulated 66 tackles, two sacks and a safety during his time in Jacksonville. He was definitely a value pick in the seventh round for the Jaguars.

With the Jaguars moving to a more “multiple” defensive scheme that will show more 3-4 looks, and with Jacobs staring training camp on the active/physically unable to perform list following a torn ACL injury in 2020, the fit no longer seemed to be there between Jacksonville and Jacobs.