Browns Designate LB Deion Jones To Return From IR

This opens up a three-week window for him to practice with the team before he has to be added to the active roster. 

Jones had been on IR with the Falcons with a shoulder injury before he was acquired by the Browns in a trade on Sunday. 

Cleveland announced they also waived CB Thomas Graham and signed TE Miller Forristall to the practice squad. 

Jones, 27, is a former second-round pick of the Falcons back in 2016. He was entering the final year of his four-year, $4.546 million contract and set to make a base salary of $1.07 million for the 2019 season when he agreed to a four-year, $57 million extension that includes $34 million guaranteed. 

Jones was set to make base salaries of $9.64 million and $12 million in the final two years of the deal when he agreed to a restructured deal this offseason. Atlanta traded him to the Browns for a late-round pick swap in 2024. 

In 2021, Jones appeared in 16 games for the Falcons and recorded 137 tackles, two sacks, a forced fumble and six pass deflections.