Former Green Bay Packers linebacker Jamon Johnson was released from the Baltimore Ravens’ practice squad on Thursday, per the NFL transaction wire, clearing a spot to re-sign linebacker Carl Jones.
For Green Bay, the move is a familiar footnote on a player the Packers already decided to move on from in the spring.
Johnson spent the 2025 season in the Packers organization after signing as an undrafted free agent out of Kentucky. He had arrived in Lexington for his final college season after three years at Georgia, where he was part of back-to-back national championship teams in 2021 and 2022 and earned first-team All-American honors in 2022.
Green Bay released him at final cuts in August 2025 and brought him back to the practice squad. From there he got a short look on the active roster.
Elevated for late-season games, Johnson appeared in two contests, Weeks 13 and 18, and made his first career start in the Week 18 finale at Minnesota.
Across 67 defensive snaps and 25 special-teams snaps he finished with 10 tackles and a pass deflection. It was a limited sample, the kind of spot duty practice-squad linebackers are asked to provide when injuries and roster math open a door, not a claim on a regular role.
Green Bay kept him through the offseason on a reserve/future contract signed January 12, then released him on April 17 along with tight end McCallan Castles and cornerback Tyron Herring. All three had spent time on the practice squad.
General manager Brian Gutekunst’s group did not bring Johnson back for training camp, a clean break from a depth piece who had never locked down a roster spot.
Johnson, a Baltimore-area product who played at St. Frances Academy, signed with the Ravens on August 8. Baltimore was looking for inside-linebacker depth with Teddye Buchanan still working back from a knee injury.
Johnson did not survive final cuts on August 30, returned to the Ravens practice squad on September 12, and was released again Thursday in the corresponding move for Jones.
He did not appear in a regular-season game for Baltimore.
The latest cut leaves the 24-year-old on the open market for the second time in six months. His Green Bay résumé is exactly what teams shop for in October: a young, undrafted linebacker with a college pedigree, a handful of NFL snaps, and special-teams experience.
It is also a résumé the Packers already evaluated and declined to keep. Thursday’s transaction does not change the depth chart in Green Bay.
It simply puts a former Packer back into the weekly scramble for a practice-squad spot somewhere else.
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