{"id":115794,"date":"2025-08-03T14:21:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T14:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/115794\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T14:21:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T14:21:12","slug":"jacksonville-jaguars-sign-veteran-levi-wallace-after-injury-at-corner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/115794\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville Jaguars sign veteran Levi Wallace after injury at corner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;right:0;bottom:0;width:100%;height:100%;z-index:2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/85484528007-jki-080125-jacksonville-jaguarsscrimmage-nfl-training-camp-51.JPG\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vidplayicon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/appservices\/universal-web\/universal\/icons\/icon-play-alt-white.svg\" alt=\"play\" style=\"height:40px;margin:auto 18px auto 27px;width:40px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Jacksonville Jaguars&#8217; Liam Coen praises his offense after scrimmage<\/p>\n<p>Jacksonville Jaguars head coach Liam Coen talks after the team&#8217;s intrasquad scrimmage at EverBank Stadium.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Jacksonville Jaguars signed veteran cornerback Levi Wallace and waived rookie defensive back Aydan White.<\/li>\n<li>Wallace has played in 96 games, starting 72, and has 333 tackles, 56 pass breakups, and 12 interceptions in his career.<\/li>\n<li>The Jaguars are still determining their starting cornerback opposite Tyson Campbell, with Jarrian Jones currently favored but Wallace&#8217;s signing potentially impacting the decision.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacksonville.com\/sports\/jaguars\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Jacksonville Jaguars<\/a> signed veteran cornerback Levi Wallace, the team announced Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>In a corresponding move, the team waived rookie defensive back Aydan White.<\/p>\n<p>Wallace&#8217;s signing comes not long after the team lost CB Montaric Brown for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacksonville.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/jaguars\/2025\/07\/28\/jacksonville-jaguars-montaric-brown-miss-rest-of-training-camp-leg-injury\/85405155007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">remainder of training camp<\/a> due to a lower-body injury sustained early in camp.<\/p>\n<p>Wallace, entering his eighth year in the NFL after being signed as an undrafted free agent by the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/buffalo-bills\/324\" data-autotag=\"1082767b-7fb4-4f44-b217-cdba2c3895e9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Buffalo Bills<\/a>, most recently played for the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/denver-broncos\/332\" data-autotag=\"80ecb2c2-c4e3-4c9a-8c53-01c0a2da3542\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Denver Broncos<\/a>. After Wallace&#8217;s four-year stint with the Bills (2018-21), he played for the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/pittsburgh-steelers\/356\" data-autotag=\"c4d4185f-a327-423a-aa54-67a40f9dee05\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a> (2022-23) and the Denver Broncos (2024).<\/p>\n<p>In his career, Wallace has played in 96 games, starting 72. The majority of his starts came as a member of the Bills. Wallace started and played in 52 games for the AFC East team. In his career, Wallace has totaled 333 tackles (256 solos), 56 pass breakups and 12 interceptions.<\/p>\n<p>Jacksonville&#8217;s cornerback depth is still taking shape. The team has solidified starters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacksonville.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/jaguars\/2025\/06\/18\/tyson-campbell-jacksonville-jaguars-performers-offseason\/84231343007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Tyson Campbell<\/a> and Jourdan Lewis at outside and nickel corner, respectively. The team&#8217;s starter opposite Campbell has not been made immediately obvious, however, with second-year corner Jarrian Jones the favorite.<\/p>\n<p class=\"related-link\"><strong style=\"margin-right:3px\">HIGH PRAISE: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacksonville.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/jaguars\/2025\/08\/02\/jaguars-coen-scrimmage-trevor-lawrence-travis-hunter-performance\/85463393007\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jaguars coach Liam Coen pleased with team, Trevor Lawrence&#8217;s performance at scrimmage<\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, the team&#8217;s plans could shift with Wallace&#8217;s signing, giving a bit of breathing room in the event Jacksonville doesn&#8217;t want to utilize rookie Travis Hunter as the team&#8217;s starting corner opposite Campbell.<\/p>\n<p>Hunter is cross-training the receiver and corner position, and is expected to play both roles for Jacksonville this year after doing the same at Colorado over the last couple of years before being picked by the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/jacksonville-jaguars\/365\" data-autotag=\"0e187629-debe-49e8-9e02-83bd36ad3fcc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jaguars<\/a> will the second-overall pick in the 2025 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>Jacksonville will continue evaluating its defensive backs room over the coming weeks, with its first extensive look at players against another team coming later this week on Aug. 9 when the team takes on the Pittsburgh Steelers for preseason Week 1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"exclude-from-newsgate\">Demetrius Harvey is\u00a0the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/jacksonville-jaguars\/365\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Jacksonville Jaguars<\/a>\u00a0reporter\u00a0for the Florida Times-Union. 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If not, please consider becoming a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cm.jacksonville.com\/specialoffer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">subscriber<\/a>\u00a0to support local journalism in Northeast Florida.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jacksonville Jaguars&#8217; Liam Coen praises his offense after scrimmage Jacksonville Jaguars head coach Liam Coen talks after the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":115795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[691,5229,8015,8019,4503,32525,2625,17546,8995,28588,3189,8605,8999,2488,3188,15931,723,1318,2487,11652,8012,7310,8017,8013,17726,17729,17727,17724,17728,49989,72576,17725,22205,22206,1571,5382,50,1232,12623,450,1457,12099,1545,449,1451,3190,62,1458,2779,645,2490,448,447,456,1533,8016,28973,28978,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,12496],"class_list":{"0":"post-115794","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-american","11":"tag-american-football","12":"tag-bills","13":"tag-broncos","14":"tag-brown","15":"tag-buffalo","16":"tag-buffalo-bills","17":"tag-campbell","18":"tag-content","19":"tag-denver","20":"tag-denver-broncos","21":"tag-enabled","22":"tag-fl","23":"tag-fl-content-sharing-jaguars","24":"tag-florida","25":"tag-football","26":"tag-highlights","27":"tag-hub","28":"tag-hunter","29":"tag-jacksonville","30":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars","31":"tag-jaguars","32":"tag-jarrian","33":"tag-jarrian-jones","34":"tag-jones","35":"tag-jourdan","36":"tag-jourdan-lewis","37":"tag-levi","38":"tag-levi-wallace","39":"tag-lewis","40":"tag-montaric","41":"tag-montaric-brown","42":"tag-national","43":"tag-national-sports","44":"tag-news","45":"tag-nfl","46":"tag-nfl-hub","47":"tag-overall","48":"tag-overall-positive","49":"tag-pittsburgh","50":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","51":"tag-point","52":"tag-positive","53":"tag-sharing","54":"tag-sports","55":"tag-sports-news","56":"tag-steelers","57":"tag-story","58":"tag-story-highlights-ai-enabled","59":"tag-the","60":"tag-to","61":"tag-to-the-point","62":"tag-travis","63":"tag-travis-hunter","64":"tag-tyson","65":"tag-tyson-campbell","66":"tag-united-states","67":"tag-united-states-of-america","68":"tag-unitedstates","69":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","70":"tag-us","71":"tag-usa","72":"tag-wallace"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}