Jerome Baker spent his first six NFL seasons in South Beach but will now be on his third team in 2024 after the former Buckeye has reportedly been traded from the Seattle Seahawks to the Tennessee Titans on Wednesday.
The Seahawks are trading LB Jerome Baker and a fourth-round pick to Tennessee for LB Ernest Jones IV, a source tells me.
— Brady Henderson (@BradyHenderson) October 23, 2024
Baker recorded 30 tackles (two tackles for loss), one sack, two passes defended, one forced fumble and one fumble recovery in five games (all starts) with the Seahawks this season.
After six seasons with the Miami Dolphins, Baker was released in March by the team that drafted him in the third round of the 2018 NFL draft due to the two sides being unable to agree on a restructured contract. He signed a one-year, $7 million deal with the Dolphins weeks later. In six seasons in Miami, the Cleveland, Ohio native totaled 587 total tackles with 31 tackles for loss, 22.5 sacks, five interceptions (two returned for touchdowns), six forced fumbles and one fumble recovery during his career with the Dolphins, in which he started 82 games.
Baker joins former Buckeyes Nicholas Petit-Frere, Isaiah Prince and Nick Vannett in Tennessee.
The 6-foot-2, 232-pound linebacker started two seasons at Ohio State in 2016 and 2017, racking up 83 and 72 tackles, respectively, the latter number leading the Buckeyes in 2018. He added 17.5 tackles for loss, seven sacks, two interceptions, three fumble recoveries and a pick-six across those two years as a starter in Columbus.
