It’s time to get excited, folks. You’re about to see Landry Jones for the first time in years. The former Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback who spent five years with the team between 2013 and 2017 is set to make his XFL debut today as the starting quarterback for the Dallas Renegades.
Jones was the flagship signing of the XFL, the first player to come on board, last year after he seemingly dried up all of his leads to land another job in the NFL. After the Steelers released him at the end of the 2018 preseason in favor of Joshua Dobbs (who would be traded a year later), he was briefly with the Jacksonville Jaguars, and had a short stint in the offseason with the Oakland Raiders in 2019.