04/29/22: Drafted by L.A. Chargers (third round, 79th overall)
09/30/23: Placed on reserve/non-football illness list
12/05/23: Activated from reserve
08/28/24: Released by L.A. Chargers
08/30/24: Signed to Philadelphia's PS
10/22/24: Released by Philadelphia
11/07/24: Signed to Chicago's PS
01/17/25: Signed to a future contract with Seattle
• Split the 2024 season between Philadelphia's and Chicago's practice squads.
• After being activated from reserve/non-football illness, appeared in three games for the Chargers in 2023. Recorded five tackles (five solo) on 60 defensive snaps and 16 special teams snaps.
• Appeared in 10 games, making one start on Sunday Night Football in Week 10 in 2022. Totaled three tackles.
COLLEGE: Appeared in 50 career games over four seasons (2018-21) at Baylor, including 28 starts at safety. Ended his collegiate career ranked fifth in program history for career games played. Totaled 157 tackles (113 solo), seven tackles for loss, a sack, nine interceptions, 14 passes defensed and four fumble recoveries for the Bears. Earned honorable mention All-Big 12 recognition from the coaches as a junior and senior. Led the conference his senior season with a career-high six inteceptions. Scored a defensive touchdown in back-to-back weeks in 2021 — a 20-yard pick-six at Texas State for Baylor's first touchdown of the season and then a program-record 97-yard fumble return against Texas Southern, earning Big 12 Co-Defensive Player of the Week following the latter performance. Picked off a career-high two passes in Baylor's Sugar Bowl victory over Mississippi to close out his college career.
PERSONAL: Given name Jalen Terrell Woods. Competed in the 110-meter hurdles for the Baylor track & field team in 2019. Earned a bachelor's degree in sociology from Baylor. High School: Attended Byron P. Steele II High School in Cibolo, Texas, propelling the program to a 9-5 record as a senior in 2017. Totaled 33 tackles and one sack as a senior while playing both ways, along with six receptions for 63 yards and two rushes for 39 yards offensively. Helped guide Steele to a 14-2 record and state quarterfinal appearance as a junior in 2016. Also competed in track, posting personal-best times of 10.64 in the 100-meter dash, 21.87 in the 200-meter dash and 13.80 in the 110-meter hurdles.
