The Broncos made last week’s biggest splash but went through a dormant Monday. They are making a move tonight, however, in signing former 49ers defensive lineman D.J. Jones.
Jones agreed to a three-year, $30MM deal with Denver, Ian Rapoport of NFL.com tweets. Breaking through during his contract year, Jones will collect a nice payday. The Broncos are giving the interior D-lineman a fully guaranteed $20MM.
The sixth-year D-lineman will essentially take the place of Shelby Harris, whom the Broncos included in their Russell Wilson trade. Harris, a Bronco from 2017-21, was attached to a $9MM-per-year deal.
A former sixth-round pick, Jones displayed considerable promise during his contract year. The Ole Miss alum started 17 games for San Francisco, registered 10 tackles for loss and forced two fumbles. The 49ers used Jones as a 46-game starter over the past three seasons, during which time the inside defender recorded seven sacks and 21 TFLs. Jones added a sack, during the 49ers’ five-sack game against the Cowboys, in the playoffs earlier this year.
At 27, D.J. Jones is nearly four years younger than Harris. He will team with Dre’Mont Jones, who is going into a contract year, and nose tackle Mike Purcell on the Broncos’ D-line. D.J. Jones is the only projected starter acquired or extended during George Paton‘s GM tenure.
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Jones is the only starter acquired by Paton? Only starter at all?
Broncos got better with this deal if they use him the right way, as a Niner fan D.J. will be missed.
Broncos fans will love DJ Jones, he’s an excellent run stuffer, and he can eat blocks and has solid ability to drive his opponents freeing up lanes to allow his ILBs to run and make plays!!
He’s a severely underrated player, and Denver is fortunate to have him. 49ers and the faithful will definitely miss him!! Good for him though, this big payday was a long time coming for DJJ!!
It just doesn’t make sense why the Niners cannot restructure contracts to create salary cap room to keep guys like this! I mean come on less than 7 mm per year. And then we let L.Tomlinson walk for Pennies! We need a new salary cap guy Paraag sucks so does Lynch when it comes to being creative with the salary cap
Well dee I’m hurt a lot doesn’t help taking a lot of the cap and till jimmy g gone we have little to nothing to give .
Sleepy, wake up. Marathe has been phenomenal over the years in fitting players in the cap. Tomlinson–huge overpay. Pennies? 13 mill/yr for 3 years? Pennies? Without Trent Williams next to him, he won’t be near as good. Jones? Yeah, he’ll be missed but they’re deeper on Dline than any group they have. Kinlaw was excellent before his injury. You can’t be too creative with free agent contracts and you can’t restructure them.
What the nfl well known for being able to restructure deals. So what you trying to say
Wow. They’re free agents. You can’t restructure a freaking contract that doesn’t exist. How else can I say it?
Yes, Bronco fans will absolutely love D.J. Jones he’s a monster against the run especially! Russel probably tipped the broncos and just tired of getting his head bashed in lmao
Till jimmy g gone and they find cap space else where . A lot of this will happen for the 49ers
Ignorance in the dictionary is defined as “lacking knowledge on a subject”. Some of you posters “lack knowledge” of things that you act knowledgeable on. Acting knowledgeable is not proof of having knowledge. So try this from David Lombardi of The Athletic. He knows more on this stuff than any of us. From his Twitter “49ers weren’t going to pay D.J. Jones, a NT, $10m APY and Laken Tomlinson, a guard, $13m APY regardless of their salary-cap situation. It’s as simple as that. If you’ve been paying attention to their roster-building budget, those 2 positions were never earmarked for that 49ers $$$”. Lombardi is NOT ignorant.