GREEN BAY, Wis., June 14 (UPI) -- Three weeks after signing Robert Jones, the Green Bay Packers announced Friday they had waived the 10-year veteran linebacker.
The move comes three days after the Packers signed Hardy Nickerson to take over the middle linebacker position.
It has been a strange offseason for the 32-year-old Jones, who signed with the expansion Houston Texans on March 1, but asked for his release and signed with the Packers on May 23.
Jones was expected to compete with Torrance Marshall for the middle linebacker spot and serve as a backup at the outside linebacker spots behind starters Nate Wayne and Na'il Diggs. But when the Packers signed Nickerson, Jones became expendable.
The 6-1, 246-pound Jones was a member of three Super Bowl title teams with the Dallas Cowboys in the 1990s and played last season with the Washington Redskins.
Jones has started 128 of 150 games, registering 974 tackles and eight sacks, with Dallas, St. Louis, Miami and Washington.
The Packers on Friday also waived quarterback Josh Heupel, who was signed in February.
Heupel led Oklahoma to the 2000 national championship and was a sixth-round pick of the Miami Dolphins in 2001, but was hampered by a wrist injury and waived off injured reserve last September.
