Josh Jobe entered the 2024 season with three NFL starts. The former Alabama cornerback had started the past four games in the Seattle Seahawks’ secondary, but he won’t make it five in a row on Sunday.

The Seahawks placed Jobe on injured reserve on Saturday after he was unable to practice this week in preparation for Seattle’s regular-season finale against the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday.

Jobe sustained a knee injury in the Seahawks’ previous game – a 6-3 victory over the Chicago Bears on Dec. 26.

Jobe played in 11 regular-season games and Super Bowl LVII as an undrafted rookie in 2022 for the Philadelphia Eagles. Last season, he played in every game, with three starts, for Philadelphia and was one of the NFL’s most active special-teams players, with 323 special-teams plays.

But the Eagles cut Jobe this season when they reduced their preseason roster to the regular-season limit of 53 active players. He joined the Seahawks as a practice-squad member and did not play in the first six games of the 2024 campaign.

Jobe made his Seattle debut as a practice-squad elevation on Oct. 20 in a 34-14 victory over the Atlanta Falcons, and he played in the Seahawks’ next two games in that manner, too.

Jobe was in the starting lineup for his 2024 debut and played 165 snaps in his three games while on the practice squad. In the Seahawks’ 31-10 loss to the Buffalo Bills on Oct. 22, Jobe picked off quarterback Josh Allen and had a 33-yard return on his first NFL interception.

Because a practice-squad player cannot be elevated to active status more than three times in a season, Seattle signed Jobe to its 53-man active roster on Nov. 11 so he could keep playing. He’d played in every game since and started five of the past six.

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Injuries at cornerback opened the opportunity for Jobe. He had been deployed in nickel packages as an outside corner with Riq Woolen while Devon Witherspoon shifts inside to play the slot.

Of Jobe’s career total of 695 defensive snaps, 443 came this season.

The status of another former Alabama defensive back trended in the opposite direction of Jobe’s on Saturday. The Los Angeles Chargers elevated Eddie Jackson from their practice squad to active status for their game against the Las Vegas Raiders on Sunday.

A two-time Pro Bowl safety who joined the Chargers on Dec. 23 after the Baltimore Ravens released him, Jackson was elevated last week, too, and he played 21 defensive snaps in a 40-7 victory over the New England Patriots.

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Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on X at @AMarkG1.