Player
Brandon Jones
DB · Broncos
Brandon Jones: facts drawn from the play-by-play.
6 NFL seasons across two teams — 423 career combined tackles and counting.
TrendBrandon Jones career — regular season
| Season | Team | Comb | TFL | Sacks | PD | INT | FF |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | MIA | 58 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | MIA | 71 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2022 | MIA | 44 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | MIA | 55 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| 2024 | DEN | 118 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 3 | 1 |
| 2025 | DEN | 77 | 0 | 0.5 | 7 | 1 | 0 |
A 3rd-round Dolphins pick in 2020, Jones spent four seasons in Miami getting better but never breaking through. He signed with Denver in 2024 free agency and immediately produced his best NFL season — 118 combined tackles, 10 PD, 3 INT.
He followed that up in 2025 with another full-time starting line: 77 combined tackles, 7 PD, 1 INT through the regular season, plus playoff snaps.
Miami years (4 seasons): 228 tackles. Denver years (2 seasons): 195 already.
SplitPer-season rate comparison
| Stretch | Seasons | Tackles/Yr | PD/Yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miami (2020–23) | 4 | 57.0 | 2.3 |
| Denver (2024–25) | 2 | 97.5 | 8.5 |
The role change is dramatic. In Miami, Jones rotated with Eric Rowe and Jevon Holland and averaged 57 tackles/year, 2.3 PD/year. In Denver — where Vance Joseph plays heavier 2-high concepts and gives Jones every-down work — he's at 97.5 tackles/year and 8.5 PDs/year.
Few safeties make this big a jump after a position-change move in free agency. It's a coaching-fit story.
2024 Broncos: 118 tackles, 10 PDs, 3 INTs — a 110/10/3 safety season is top-10 league-wide.
RareHitting 110+ tackles, 10+ PD, and 3+ INT in a single season is a top-of-the-position threshold. Only a small group of safeties cleared it in 2024 — Brandon Jones was on that list, alongside names like Kyle Hamilton and Justin Simmons.
The coverage line was new for him: through 4 Miami seasons he had 9 PDs total. He hit 10 in 2024 alone.
He spent 4 years as a SAM-coverage SAF; 2024 turned him into a tackling machine overnight.
AnomalyCombined tackles by season
| Season | Tackles |
|---|---|
| 2020 | 58 |
| 2021 | 71 |
| 2022 | 44 |
| 2023 | 55 |
| 2024 | 118 |
| 2025 | 77 |
From 2020 through 2023 his best season was 71 tackles. In 2024 he hit 118 — that's a 47-tackle jump, more than any safety in the league.
Not a development story so much as a deployment story: he was playing in 2-high with limited box snaps in Miami, then was put right in the middle of the Denver run-fit as the SS. Same player, different blueprint.
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