Overview
- The Steelers announced Jenkins’s release via an official team tweet on Wednesday and did not list an immediate corresponding roster transaction.
- Jenkins played in each of the first six games this season, recording 16 tackles overall, but his defensive role shrank after the loss to Cleveland and he did not play on defense in the past two weeks.
- The timing of the move is widely read as preparation to bring knee-injured safety DeShon Elliott back after the team opened his activation window on October 8.
- Jaquan Brisker and seventh-round rookie Robert Spears-Jennings had handled the bulk of defensive snaps at safety recently, reducing Jenkins’s on-field role.
- The change trims veteran depth ahead of the Week 7 matchup in Paris and could push the Steelers to adjust special-teams assignments or explore practice-squad options to replace Jenkins’s roster spot.